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Vocab 13
heglund
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organic Agriculture | approach to farming and ranching that avoids use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones and other similar synthetic inputs. |
| Root crops | reproduced by cultivating roots of or cutting from plants. |
| Seed crops | reproduced by cultivating seeds of plants |
| Green Revolution | recently successful development of higher-yield, fast growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which lead to increased pop. per unit area and dramatic narrowing of gap b/t pop. growth and food needs. |
| Slash and Burn Agriculture | (shifting cultivation)-cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. |
| Rectangular Survey System | (public land survey) system was used by US land office survey to parcel land WEST of App. mtns.- divides land into series of rectangular parcels |
| Township and Range system | rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of US interior. |
| Metes and Bounds system | land surveying EAST of App. mtns.- relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams on trees -b/c of imprecise nature of Metes and bounds surveying, US Land Survey System abandoned technique in favor of Rect. Survey System. |
| Longlot Survey | Distinct regional approach to land surveying found in Canadian Maritimes, parts of Quebec, Louisiana and Texas whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads or canals. |
| Primogeniture | eldest son in family or, in exceptional cases, daughter- inherits all of dying parent's land. |
| Commercial Agriculture | describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces and latest tech. |
| Plantation Agriculture | production system based on large estate owned by an individual,family, or corporation and organized to produce cash crop. Almost all plantations were est. w/in tropics; in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings or reconized as cooper |
| Luxury crops | non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco. |
| Livestock ranching | raising of domesticated animals for production of meat and other by products such as leather and wool. |
| Mediterranean Agriculture | specialized farming that occurs only in areas where dry-summer med. climate prevails. |
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