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Agriculture Vocab
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1. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals - as well as land used for grazing
agribusiness
Pasture
Vegetative planting
Genetically modified foods
2. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
agribusiness
First Agricultural Revolution
Subsistence agriculture
Double cropping
3. The process where animals are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
Intensive cultivation
Green Revolution
animal domestication
Milkshed
4. A machine that reaps - threshes - and cleans grain while moving over a field
von Thunen Model
Commercial agriculture
Truck farming
Combine
5. The deliberate modification of Earth's surface through the cultivation of plants and the rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
organic agriculture
Grain
Agriculture
Fertile Crescent
6. The technique of separating metals from ores.
Sustainable agriculture
Winter wheat
metallurgy
Topsoil loss
7. Agricultural hearth
agricultural origin
animal domestication
Pesticides
metallurgy
8. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
Transhumance
Intensive cultivation
feedlots
Animal husbandry
9. Another name for shifting cultivation - so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Cereal grain
10. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
Pasture
Winter wheat
Intensive cultivation
Horticulture
11. System of planting crops on ridge tops - in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
Commercial agriculture
capital-intensive agriculture
Desertification
Ridge tillage
12. An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals - such as cattle - horses - sheep - and goats
Pastoralism
Specialty crops
Animal husbandry
Wet rice
13. Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
Pastoralism
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
Wet rice
14. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
Commercial agriculture
Spring wheat
Reaper
Shifting cultivation
15. The process where plants are artificially selected and become accustomed to human provision and control.
plant domestication
plantation agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Cereal grain
16. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
Chaff
agricultural origin
Industrial Revolution
Swidden
17. 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.
Crop rotation
Pastoralism
First Agricultural Revolution
Urban sprawl
18. 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
Seed agriculture
plantation agriculture
Second Agricultural Revolution
von Thunen Model
19. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds - which result from sexual fertilization
Double cropping
Chaff
Industrial Revolution
Seed agriculture
20. Crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides or fertilizers
Spring wheat
Paddy
organic agriculture
Shifting cultivation
21. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
Ranching
Fertile Crescent
Urban sprawl
Mediterranean agriculture
22. 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
Salinization
plant domestication
Subsistence agriculture
Truck farming
23. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter
Sustainable agriculture
Pastoralism
Reaper
Seed agriculture
24. An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
animal domestication
extensive agriculture
Paddy
Swidden
25. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year - to avoid exhausting the soil.
Wet rice
Crop rotation
Commercial agriculture
Genetically modified foods
26. The most productive farmland
Commercial agriculture
Animal husbandry
Horticulture
Prime agricultural alnd
27. 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
Crop rotation
Winter wheat
Intensive subsistence agriculture
28. 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
Specialty crops
plantation agriculture
Seed agriculture
Industrial Revolution
29. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
Winter wheat
Specialty crops
Pastoral nomadian
Crop
30. 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
Chaff
Shifting cultivation
animal domestication
Wet rice
31. 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
extensive agriculture
Chaff
Combine
Plantation
32. Degradation of land - especially in semiarid areas - primarily because of human actions like excessive crop platning - animal grazing - and tree cutting
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Desertification
Paddy
Mediterranean agriculture
33. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants
Crop
Grain
Urban sprawl
Vegetative planting
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
Double cropping
Sustainable agriculture
extensive agriculture
Pastoral nomadian
35. 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
Thresh
plant domestication
Winter wheat
biotechnology
36. Each town or market is surrounded by a cet of more-or-less concentric rings within which particular commodities or crops dominated.
agribusiness
Prime agricultural alnd
Thunian patterns
animal domestication
37. 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
von Thunen Model
capital-intensive agriculture
Wet rice
Industrial Revolution
38. Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea - cacao - coffee - and tobacco
Specialty crops
Planned agricultural economy
luxury crops
Chaff
39. 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
Genetically modified foods
Mediterranean agriculture
Paddy
Slash-and-burn agriculture
40. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
feedlots
Ridge tillage
plantation agriculture
Spring wheat
41. Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield
Intensive cultivation
plant domestication
organic agriculture
Shifting cultivation
42. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
Truck farming
Specialty crops
Subsistence agriculture
biotechnology
43. A flooded field for growing rice
Wet rice
Sawah
Crop
metallurgy
44. Rice planted on dryland in a nursery - then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
Crop rotation
Double cropping
Cereal grain
Wet rice
45. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
agribusiness
Cereal grain
Desertification
Winnow
46. Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples - which are produced - usually in developing countries - for export
Specialty crops
Horticulture
Shifting cultivation
Wet rice
47. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
von Thunen Model
Swidden
Green Revolution
Commercial agriculture
48. Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants - but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals
Labor-intensive agriculture
Pesticides
Spring wheat
Seed agriculture
49. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
plant domestication
Milkshed
Crop
Paddy
50. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
Chaff
Milkshed
Fertile Crescent
metallurgy