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Rural Vocab Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| definition of agriculture | growing crops and raising animals to provide food and other products |
| definition of cash crop | a crop grown to sell |
| definition of commercial farming | farming to produce cash crops |
| definition of domesticate | controlling a plant or animal for people to use |
| definition of irrigation | manmade means of supplying water to crops or land |
| definition of livestock | domesticated animals raised on a farm or ranch |
| definition of migration | people moving where they live from one area to another |
| definition of nomad | a person who moves a lot - has no permanent home |
| definition of natural resource | materials found in nature that are useful to people |
| definition of rural | a sparsely populated area outside of cities and towns |
| definition of subsistence farming | growing just enough food for the farmer’s own use |
| definition of surplus | an extra amount of something |
| example of cash crop | examples in Illinois - corn, soybeans, pumpkins |
| example of commercial farming | example - farms that sell wheat to companies that make pasta and bread |
| example of domestication of animals | examples - when wolves became friends with people and when horses were saddled up and ridden |
| example of irrigation | examples - sprinklers, ditches, soaker hoses |
| example of livestock | examples - cows, goats, chickens, reindeer! and camels |
| example of migration | examples - nomads moving their camel herd across the desert in search of water & grass |
| example of nomad | examples -reindeer herders in Mongolia - remember their portable tents called yurts? |
| examples of natural resources | examples - coal from mines in West Virginia - oil from wells in Texas - lobster from Maine - clean water from Lake Michigan - rich black Illinois soil |
| description of rural | examples - barn with fenced-in herd of goats - endless forests - a barren desert - Illinois cornfields as far as you can see |
| example of subsistence farming | example - video we watched showing rice farmers on hillside terraces - most American farmers when the USA was a baby country - most farmers in Haiti |
| example of surplus | examples - 198 acres of corn - 25,000 hogs - an apple orchard with 200 trees - an 18-wheeler full of boxes of tomatoes - a train with 42 cars filled to overflowing with coal |
| example of domestication of plants | examples - corn planted in straight rows, all ready to pick at the same time - no weeds -bags of wheat seed -lawns -GMOs -Svarbald Seed Vault |
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