| Agricultural/Rural Land Use |
Definition |
| ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES |
the pattern formed by the many separate adjustments that people devise in order to obtain and use resources and solve immediate problems |
| AGARIAN |
people or societies that are farmers and therefore promote agricultural interest |
| AGRIBUSINESS |
commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations |
| AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION |
the use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors ext. |
| AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE |
the land that is used to farm on and what is chosen to put on the fields |
| AGRICULTURAL LOCATION MODEL |
four generalized types of economic and agricultural activities, categorized according to relative economic yield per unit area and perishability or difficulty of delivering products to market |
| AGRICULTURAL ORIGINS |
through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for there own use |
| AGRICULTURE |
the deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain |
| ANIMAL DOMESTICATION |
domestication of animals for selling or using byproducts
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| AQUACULTURE |
the cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food |
| BIOREVOLUTION |
the rapid transformation, or evolution, into post-humanism |
| BIOTECHNOLOGY |
a set of biological techniques developed through basic research and now applied to research and product development |
| COLLECTIVE FARM |
the farm, its buildings, and its machinery may be owned communally by the group, by an institution, or, as in communist countries, by the state |
| COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE |
the production of crops for sale, crops intended for widespread distribution (e.g. supermarkets), and any non-food crops such as cotton and tobacco |
| CORE/PERIPHERY |
the industrialized countries are identified as the core and the developing countries are the periphery |
| CROP ROTATION |
a system of farming in which a regular succession of different crops are planted on the same land area, as opposed to growing the same crop time after time
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| CULTIVATION REGIONS |
regions were there is agricultural activity |
| DAIRYING |
the business of a dairy |
| DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAP |
an agreement between an organization, typically a nongovernmental organization (NGO), and a developing country that has forest resources |
| DIFFUSION |
the transmission of ideas or materials from culture to culture, or from one area to another |
Biology Lab Midterm
