In each blank, try to type in the
word that is missing. If you've
typed in the correct word, the
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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Term: Luxury Definition: specialized crops not typically essential to survival Term: Von Thünen Model Definition: higher demand in the center lesser demand further from centers Term: Von ModelDefinition: the explanation that the products that use the land intensively, have high transportation costs, and were in great demand, would be located close to urban markets, and vice versa with products in lower demand and require more extensive use Term: Von ResultsDefinition: intensively crops are located in urban centers and earn more money Term: Food Vs. Agriculture Definition: food production includes GMOs which encompasses Agriculture but at another more artificial level, primarily of agribusiness and more the purpose of mass selling Term: Modified Organisms (GMOs) Definition: organisms that have had their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional allowing growers greater control, predictability, and efficiency Term: Definition: any technique used to modify living organisms in such a way that they improve plans and animal species and, in turn, plants and animal production/ to make or modify plants and animals or to develop other microorganisms for purposes Term: Definition: places where there is a concentrated raising of livestock in a small geographic space where they are fed and other fattening grains to prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid pace and in a much smaller space/ ex: factory farms Term: and AgricultureDefinition: the industrial revolution: the access to trains and steamboats that farmers to ship their products farther at a lower cost and has a large role in determining which areas of the goose transitioned into commercial agriculture economies Term: of AgricultureDefinition: the diffusion of agriculture the globe Term: Definition: The set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for purposes. It includes activities ranging from seed production, to retailing, to consumption of agricultural products. Term: Production in the United States Definition: mostly agribusiness and farms instead of local/smaller scaled farms Term: Environmental Implications of Definition: the use of pesticides could harm , the amount of space it takes up, Term: Urban Sprawl and Definition: higher agriculture near the center of urban sprawl Term: AgricultureDefinition: the use of crop rotation, natural fertilizers (manure), and biological pest control-as opposed to artificial fertilizers, , hormones, antibiotics, additives and GMOs- to promote healthy, vigorous crops Term: Primary Economic Activities AgricultureDefinition: food processing, packaging, storing, distributing, and Term: Resource Definition: the decrease in Term: Definition: the activity of catching fish, either for food or as a , apart of the hunting and gathering method of survival Term: AquacultureDefinition: the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) for food Term: Definition: the art, science, and practice of studing and forests and plantations and related natural resources |
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