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Agriculture Vocab
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1. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Spring wheat
Swidden
Plantation
animal domestication
2. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Pastoralism
Chaff
Thunian patterns
Genetically modified foods
3. The most productive farmland
Prime agricultural alnd
biotechnology
Pastoral nomadian
Cereal grain
4. In agriculture - the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
First Agricultural Revolution
Horticulture
plantation agriculture
mechanization
5. 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
plantation agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Topsoil loss
mechanization
6. The process of urban areas expanding outwards - usually in the form of suburbs - and developing over fertile agricultural land
Chaff
Reaper
Pesticides
Urban sprawl
7. Agricultural hearth
Intensive cultivation
extensive agriculture
agricultural origin
Pasture
8. A grass yielding grain for food
luxury crops
organic agriculture
Milkshed
Cereal grain
9. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Swidden
Winnow
Combine
Hull
10. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Winter wheat
Intensive cultivation
Urban sprawl
Genetically modified foods
11. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
von Thunen Model
Wet rice
Industrial Revolution
Animal husbandry
12. 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
Transhumance
Cereal grain
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Combine
13. When cash crops are grown on large estates
Swidden
plantation agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
animal domestication
14. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
Urban sprawl
Crop rotation
Specialty crops
Spring wheat
15. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Green Revolution
Grain
Vegetative planting
Combine
16. 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
Crop
Chaff
Transhumance
Salinization
17. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
Desertification
Spring wheat
Mediterranean agriculture
Commercial agriculture
18. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Crop
Reaper
Desertification
Paddy
19. 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
biotechnology
Sustainable agriculture
Combine
Reaper
20. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Crop rotation
metallurgy
Planned agricultural economy
Pesticides
21. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
extensive agriculture
Third Agricultural Revolution
Thresh
animal domestication
22. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Ridge tillage
Agriculture
Hull
Second Agricultural Revolution
23. To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
Thresh
Agriculture
Combine
Topsoil loss
24. 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
Crop
feedlots
Mediterranean agriculture
Pastoralism
25. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Crop rotation
mechanization
feedlots
Green Revolution
26. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Animal husbandry
Genetically modified foods
animal domestication
Winter wheat
27. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Winter wheat
extensive agriculture
Seed agriculture
Crop
28. The growing of fruits - vegetables - and flowers
Animal husbandry
Milkshed
Horticulture
agricultural origin
29. 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
Labor-intensive agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
Crop
Chaff
30. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Truck farming
Pesticides
Prime agricultural alnd
Intensive subsistence agriculture
31. 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
Spring wheat
Genetically modified foods
Thresh
Pesticides
32. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
biotechnology
Thunian patterns
Mediterranean agriculture
Subsistence agriculture
33. Seed of a cereal grain
biotechnology
Ranching
Grain
Chaff
34. Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry - usually through ownership by large corporations
agribusiness
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Crop
Hull
35. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Paddy
Pastoralism
Second Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
36. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Labor-intensive agriculture
First Agricultural Revolution
agricultural origin
37. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Pastoral nomadian
Intensive subsistence agriculture
organic agriculture
von Thunen Model
38. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Pesticides
Combine
Double cropping
Ranching
39. Type of specialized farming occuring only in the areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean sea
metallurgy
Genetically modified foods
plant domestication
Mediterranean agriculture
40. 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
Wet rice
biotechnology
Double cropping
Milkshed
41. 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
Spring wheat
capital-intensive agriculture
Grain
Urban sprawl
42. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
extensive agriculture
Wet rice
Winnow
Combine
43. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plant domestication
Planned agricultural economy
von Thunen Model
Chaff
44. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Milkshed
Specialty crops
Spring wheat
Fertile Crescent
45. 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
biotechnology
Pastoralism
Specialty crops
46. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
Thunian patterns
Subsistence agriculture
Transhumance
Double cropping
47. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Transhumance
Pastoral nomadian
Specialty crops
Prime agricultural alnd
48. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
Ridge tillage
Plantation
Crop
Commercial agriculture
49. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Intensive cultivation
Fertile Crescent
Animal husbandry
Third Agricultural Revolution
50. 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
Genetically modified foods
agricultural origin
Specialty crops