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Agriculture Vocab
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1. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Specialty crops
agribusiness
Crop rotation
Transhumance
2. 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
Plantation
Agriculture
animal domestication
plantation agriculture
3. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Crop
Chaff
luxury crops
Third Agricultural Revolution
4. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
First Agricultural Revolution
Labor-intensive agriculture
Winter wheat
Wet rice
5. 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
Desertification
Intensive subsistence agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
Pastoralism
6. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
capital-intensive agriculture
Ranching
Chaff
Pastoralism
7. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Pastoralism
Labor-intensive agriculture
Wet rice
Crop rotation
8. 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
Winnow
Crop rotation
Desertification
Third Agricultural Revolution
9. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
First Agricultural Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
Pesticides
Thresh
10. 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
capital-intensive agriculture
von Thunen Model
Grain
Genetically modified foods
11. A flooded field for growing rice
Thresh
Sawah
Crop rotation
Wet rice
12. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Subsistence agriculture
feedlots
Winter wheat
Green Revolution
13. 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
Salinization
Chaff
Paddy
14. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
Sustainable agriculture
Spring wheat
Horticulture
Winnow
15. An agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution
Planned agricultural economy
Second Agricultural Revolution
Chaff
Grain
16. 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
capital-intensive agriculture
Mediterranean agriculture
Hull
Topsoil loss
17. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Specialty crops
Sustainable agriculture
Seed agriculture
Desertification
18. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Pasture
Horticulture
Spring wheat
Pastoral nomadian
19. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
Ranching
Winnow
Pastoral nomadian
agribusiness
20. 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
Intensive cultivation
Paddy
Topsoil loss
biotechnology
21. 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
Horticulture
Topsoil loss
Plantation
22. Agricultural hearth
Green Revolution
Winnow
agricultural origin
mechanization
23. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
plantation agriculture
luxury crops
Winnow
Wet rice
24. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
Animal husbandry
Green Revolution
Combine
Desertification
25. The outer covering of a seed
Hull
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Reaper
Salinization
26. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Industrial Revolution
plant domestication
Third Agricultural Revolution
Truck farming
27. The most productive farmland
Animal husbandry
Swidden
Specialty crops
Prime agricultural alnd
28. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Milkshed
Thunian patterns
Horticulture
Pastoralism
29. A grass yielding grain for food
Urban sprawl
Cereal grain
Industrial Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
30. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Ridge tillage
Intensive cultivation
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Paddy
31. Seed of a cereal grain
Grain
Reaper
plant domestication
Chaff
32. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
luxury crops
von Thunen Model
biotechnology
Sustainable agriculture
33. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Commercial agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
Animal husbandry
Green Revolution
34. 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
Third Agricultural Revolution
Genetically modified foods
Animal husbandry
Crop
35. 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
Intensive cultivation
Animal husbandry
Labor-intensive agriculture
Salinization
36. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Grain
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Specialty crops
37. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Vegetative planting
Specialty crops
Shifting cultivation
38. 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
Second Agricultural Revolution
plantation agriculture
Hull
Wet rice
39. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Animal husbandry
Commercial agriculture
plant domestication
40. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Commercial agriculture
Swidden
Thunian patterns
Plantation
41. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Desertification
Transhumance
Fertile Crescent
von Thunen Model
42. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Ranching
extensive agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Truck farming
43. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
Salinization
extensive agriculture
metallurgy
Paddy
44. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Industrial Revolution
Pastoral nomadian
Paddy
Milkshed
45. 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.
mechanization
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
organic agriculture
46. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
mechanization
metallurgy
Transhumance
agribusiness
47. 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
Sawah
Shifting cultivation
Pasture
Subsistence agriculture
48. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
Double cropping
capital-intensive agriculture
feedlots
Paddy
49. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Urban sprawl
Topsoil loss
Subsistence agriculture
Intensive subsistence agriculture
50. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology - especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
Green Revolution
feedlots
Pastoral nomadian
Thunian patterns