| Question |
Answer |
| What is a primary economic activities? |
The resource extractive products from agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering, or mining. |
| What is a secondary economic activity? |
Those activities that take a primary activity and change it into something else. I.E. manufacture it. |
| What is a tertiary economic activity? |
A service activity that connects commerce and trade. Producers can find consumers. |
| What is quaternary activity? |
Economic activities concerned with information flow. |
| What is a quinary activity? |
Research and higher education activities. |
| Plant domestication |
The planned selection and improvement of plants that will benefit human and animal consumption. |
| Root Crops |
Crops reproduced from roots or cuttings
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| Seed Crops |
Cultivation by plant seeds that required a more complex process of planning |
| First Agriculture Revolution |
Thought to begin in the region known as the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq. |
| Animal Domestication |
Animals kept for protection or pets as people became sedentary. Animals were selected for traits that were beneficial for human use. Occurred after plant domestication. |
| Subsistence Agriculture |
Growing enough food for survival. Land use is characterized by the "commons."
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| Shifting Agriculture |
Tropical or subtropical agriculture where land is abandoned after becoming infertile. |
| Slash and Burn Agriculture |
Slashing down vegetation and then a controlled use of fire to burn and quickly return nutrients to the soil. A shifting agriculture process. |
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