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Agriculture Vocab
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1. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
animal domestication
Paddy
plant domestication
biotechnology
2. The rapid economic changes that occurred in agriculture and manufacturing in England in the late 18th century and that rapidly spread to other parts of the developed world
Transhumance
Mediterranean agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Fertile Crescent
3. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Milkshed
Planned agricultural economy
Seed agriculture
Shifting cultivation
4. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution - typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides
Swidden
Pasture
mechanization
Sustainable agriculture
5. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Subsistence agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Reaper
Seed agriculture
6. The use of genetically engineered crops in agricutlure and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production. Example: radiation of meats and vegetables to prolong their freshness
Transhumance
Reaper
Topsoil loss
biotechnology
7. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Specialty crops
agricultural origin
Chaff
Horticulture
8. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
metallurgy
Intensive cultivation
Subsistence agriculture
Animal husbandry
9. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Combine
von Thunen Model
Topsoil loss
Urban sprawl
10. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Subsistence agriculture
agribusiness
Chaff
capital-intensive agriculture
11. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Animal husbandry
Transhumance
mechanization
Intensive cultivation
12. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period
plantation agriculture
Transhumance
Horticulture
Shifting cultivation
13. An agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activities in terms of rent. Activities that require intensive cultivation and cannot be transported over great distances pay higher rent to be close to the market. Conversely - activities t
von Thunen Model
Pastoral nomadian
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
14. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Pastoralism
Second Agricultural Revolution
Desertification
Topsoil loss
15. Process that occurs when soils in arid areas are brought under cultivation through irrigation. In arid climates - water evaporates quickly off the ground surface - leaving salty residues that render the soil infertile
Winter wheat
Salinization
Prime agricultural alnd
Plantation
16. Loss of the top fertile layer of soil is lost through erosion. It is a tremendous problem in areas with fragile soils - steep slopes - or torrential seasonal rains
Chaff
Third Agricultural Revolution
Hull
Topsoil loss
17. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Grain
Planned agricultural economy
Truck farming
Plantation
18. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Milkshed
organic agriculture
Horticulture
Commercial agriculture
19. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
luxury crops
Hull
Agriculture
Chaff
20. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Desertification
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Agriculture
21. A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
Urban sprawl
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Prime agricultural alnd
Horticulture
22. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Thunian patterns
Vegetative planting
First Agricultural Revolution
luxury crops
23. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Combine
Urban sprawl
luxury crops
Specialty crops
24. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
agribusiness
mechanization
Chaff
Animal husbandry
25. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
Paddy
Seed agriculture
Thunian patterns
Green Revolution
26. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Seed agriculture
Transhumance
Intensive cultivation
biotechnology
27. Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate
feedlots
Prime agricultural alnd
Pastoralism
Seed agriculture
28. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Vegetative planting
Mediterranean agriculture
Double cropping
Topsoil loss
29. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Green Revolution
Thresh
Commercial agriculture
Shifting cultivation
30. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Animal husbandry
Subsistence agriculture
luxury crops
Crop rotation
31. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Grain
agricultural origin
Intensive cultivation
Milkshed
32. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Labor-intensive agriculture
Hull
Transhumance
Truck farming
33. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Thresh
Ridge tillage
agricultural origin
34. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Sustainable agriculture
Specialty crops
feedlots
von Thunen Model
35. Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery - tools - vehicles - and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods - a process requiring very little human labor
Seed agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
capital-intensive agriculture
feedlots
36. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Crop rotation
extensive agriculture
mechanization
agricultural origin
37. The outer covering of a seed
Animal husbandry
Hull
Grain
Subsistence agriculture
38. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Vegetative planting
Pesticides
Crop rotation
Grain
39. Area located in the crescent-shaped zone near the southeastern Mediterranean coast (including Iraq - Syria - Lebanon - and Turkey) - which was once a lush environment and one of the first hearths of domestication and thus agricultural activity
animal domestication
biotechnology
Fertile Crescent
Desertification
40. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Labor-intensive agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Ranching
Cereal grain
41. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Double cropping
Urban sprawl
Pesticides
mechanization
42. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Pasture
feedlots
animal domestication
Hull
43. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Wet rice
Subsistence agriculture
Double cropping
Third Agricultural Revolution
44. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Intensive cultivation
Agriculture
Chaff
Green Revolution
45. The most productive farmland
Plantation
Genetically modified foods
agribusiness
Prime agricultural alnd
46. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
plantation agriculture
Wet rice
Reaper
First Agricultural Revolution
47. A flooded field for growing rice
Fertile Crescent
extensive agriculture
Agriculture
Sawah
48. Also Neolithic Revolution. The period of time about 12 -000 years ago when the humans transitioned from hunting and gathering communities to agriculture and settlement bands due to the use of plant and animal domestication.
Wet rice
First Agricultural Revolution
Transhumance
Crop rotation
49. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Ridge tillage
agricultural origin
agribusiness
Pesticides
50. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Intensive cultivation
Cereal grain
metallurgy
capital-intensive agriculture