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Agriculture Vocab
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1. 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
Fertile Crescent
Paddy
capital-intensive agriculture
Plantation
2. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Thresh
Labor-intensive agriculture
Combine
Winnow
3. The most productive farmland
Prime agricultural alnd
Specialty crops
Double cropping
agribusiness
4. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
organic agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Crop rotation
plantation agriculture
5. The period of time approximately 250 years after the start of the Second Agricultural Revolution continuing into the present - with three distinctive features. The lines distinguishing agriculture as primary - secondary - and tertiary activities are
Combine
feedlots
Third Agricultural Revolution
Winnow
6. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Truck farming
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Crop
Ridge tillage
7. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Desertification
Cereal grain
Winter wheat
plantation agriculture
8. The outer covering of a seed
Wet rice
capital-intensive agriculture
Pastoralism
Hull
9. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Planned agricultural economy
Crop
Thunian patterns
Chaff
10. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Crop rotation
organic agriculture
Winnow
Transhumance
11. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Spring wheat
Labor-intensive agriculture
Intensive cultivation
First Agricultural Revolution
12. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Crop
biotechnology
extensive agriculture
Prime agricultural alnd
13. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Thunian patterns
Transhumance
plant domestication
Wet rice
14. 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
biotechnology
Agriculture
plant domestication
Prime agricultural alnd
15. The period of time in 17th and 18th century Europe where farming underwent significant changes. Tools and equipment were modified. Methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting improved. The general organization of agricult
von Thunen Model
Spring wheat
Second Agricultural Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
16. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Mediterranean agriculture
Milkshed
Crop
Cereal grain
17. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Second Agricultural Revolution
Crop rotation
organic agriculture
Truck farming
18. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
animal domestication
Genetically modified foods
Desertification
Paddy
19. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Seed agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
Truck farming
20. Agricultural hearth
Combine
Green Revolution
Seed agriculture
agricultural origin
21. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Reaper
Ridge tillage
Mediterranean agriculture
Chaff
22. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
plantation agriculture
Animal husbandry
Milkshed
Salinization
23. 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
Subsistence agriculture
Cereal grain
Intensive subsistence agriculture
agribusiness
24. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Cereal grain
Intensive cultivation
Double cropping
Vegetative planting
25. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Transhumance
mechanization
animal domestication
Wet rice
26. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Wet rice
Specialty crops
organic agriculture
Green Revolution
27. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale - usually to a more developed country
Urban sprawl
biotechnology
Plantation
Crop rotation
28. Seed of a cereal grain
extensive agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
Grain
Wet rice
29. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
organic agriculture
Thunian patterns
Winter wheat
Ranching
30. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Commercial agriculture
Specialty crops
agribusiness
feedlots
31. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Combine
capital-intensive agriculture
Vegetative planting
Wet rice
32. 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
Vegetative planting
First Agricultural Revolution
Desertification
Topsoil loss
33. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
feedlots
Hull
Thresh
Pesticides
34. 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
Plantation
Sustainable agriculture
Cereal grain
Industrial Revolution
35. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Spring wheat
Crop rotation
Chaff
plant domestication
36. 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
Pesticides
Shifting cultivation
Grain
Desertification
37. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Pesticides
Green Revolution
Transhumance
Intensive subsistence agriculture
38. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
plant domestication
Pastoralism
Specialty crops
Industrial Revolution
39. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Winter wheat
organic agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
Sustainable agriculture
40. 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
Planned agricultural economy
Ranching
Industrial Revolution
Wet rice
41. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
First Agricultural Revolution
Prime agricultural alnd
Horticulture
agricultural origin
42. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
feedlots
mechanization
Labor-intensive agriculture
Spring wheat
43. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Sustainable agriculture
Desertification
Combine
Wet rice
44. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
extensive agriculture
luxury crops
Winnow
animal domestication
45. A grass yielding grain for food
Cereal grain
Labor-intensive agriculture
Specialty crops
Planned agricultural economy
46. 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
Plantation
luxury crops
feedlots
Sustainable agriculture
47. 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
Double cropping
Commercial agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
Salinization
48. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Pasture
Chaff
Milkshed
Mediterranean agriculture
49. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
agribusiness
feedlots
Thunian patterns
Slash-and-burn agriculture
50. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Plantation
Pastoral nomadian
Specialty crops
Crop rotation