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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Animal husbandry
Thresh
Cereal grain
agribusiness
2. 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
Fertile Crescent
Shifting cultivation
Planned agricultural economy
Topsoil loss
3. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
First Agricultural Revolution
Wet rice
Labor-intensive agriculture
Horticulture
4. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
capital-intensive agriculture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Combine
Thunian patterns
5. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
metallurgy
Urban sprawl
Crop rotation
Slash-and-burn agriculture
6. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
Mediterranean agriculture
agricultural origin
Chaff
Intensive subsistence agriculture
7. The outer covering of a seed
Labor-intensive agriculture
Hull
Sawah
Mediterranean agriculture
8. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Intensive cultivation
Ranching
Hull
Thresh
9. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Topsoil loss
Desertification
Seed agriculture
Crop
10. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Wet rice
Grain
Winter wheat
Horticulture
11. 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
Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
agribusiness
12. 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
animal domestication
von Thunen Model
Double cropping
Chaff
13. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Vegetative planting
Pastoral nomadian
Grain
Planned agricultural economy
14. 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
Horticulture
Salinization
extensive agriculture
Prime agricultural alnd
15. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Chaff
Winnow
Slash-and-burn agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
16. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Thresh
Pastoral nomadian
Specialty crops
Agriculture
17. 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
Green Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
Third Agricultural Revolution
Thunian patterns
18. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Mediterranean agriculture
Prime agricultural alnd
Thunian patterns
Vegetative planting
19. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Ranching
luxury crops
capital-intensive agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
20. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Thunian patterns
organic agriculture
Intensive cultivation
Paddy
21. 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
Shifting cultivation
Hull
Seed agriculture
agribusiness
22. 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
Second Agricultural Revolution
Double cropping
Fertile Crescent
Industrial Revolution
23. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Cereal grain
Labor-intensive agriculture
Winnow
Thunian patterns
24. Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes - such as disease resistance - increased productivity - or nutritional value allowing growers greater control - predictability - and e
Animal husbandry
Combine
Genetically modified foods
Green Revolution
25. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
extensive agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
Pastoralism
Animal husbandry
26. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Animal husbandry
luxury crops
Truck farming
Urban sprawl
27. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Sawah
Combine
Planned agricultural economy
Slash-and-burn agriculture
28. 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
Winter wheat
plantation agriculture
Planned agricultural economy
29. A grass yielding grain for food
Horticulture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Cereal grain
Plantation
30. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
agribusiness
Agriculture
luxury crops
Crop rotation
31. Malay word for wet rice - commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
luxury crops
Milkshed
Mediterranean agriculture
Paddy
32. Commercial gardening and fruit farming - so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
Topsoil loss
Truck farming
Horticulture
Intensive cultivation
33. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Wet rice
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Green Revolution
Seed agriculture
34. 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
Urban sprawl
Fertile Crescent
Swidden
agribusiness
35. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Thunian patterns
Commercial agriculture
Chaff
36. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
mechanization
Shifting cultivation
Horticulture
Subsistence agriculture
37. 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
von Thunen Model
Pastoralism
luxury crops
Plantation
38. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Reaper
Subsistence agriculture
Winnow
Pastoralism
39. 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.
Chaff
First Agricultural Revolution
Topsoil loss
von Thunen Model
40. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Mediterranean agriculture
Transhumance
feedlots
Double cropping
41. 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
Ranching
Green Revolution
Fertile Crescent
Intensive subsistence agriculture
42. A flooded field for growing rice
Swidden
Sawah
Pastoralism
Double cropping
43. The technique of separating metals from ores.
metallurgy
biotechnology
Pesticides
Hull
44. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Pasture
Shifting cultivation
Milkshed
Crop
45. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Wet rice
Ranching
Swidden
Pasture
46. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Spring wheat
Sustainable agriculture
extensive agriculture
Milkshed
47. 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
Sustainable agriculture
Green Revolution
Salinization
Transhumance
48. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Winnow
Specialty crops
luxury crops
Plantation
49. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Wet rice
Pastoralism
Intensive cultivation
Urban sprawl
50. When cash crops are grown on large estates
luxury crops
plantation agriculture
Milkshed
Shifting cultivation
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