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