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10 Agriculture 9th
Chapter 10: Agriculture
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptive Strategies | The unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment |
| Agrarian | Characteristic of farmers or their way of life |
| Agribusiness | Highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership |
| Agricultural Landscape | Cultural landscape of agricultural areas |
| Agricultural Location Model | Deals with location-allocation process of land uses by farmers and the spatial organization of agricultural land uses |
| Agriculture | Cultivation of domesticated crops and raising of domesticated animals |
| Animal Domestication | Animals kept for some utilitarian purpose whose breeding is human-controlled and whose survival is dependent on humans |
| Aquaculture | Cultivation of aquatic organisms (fish, shellfish) especially for food |
| Biotechnology | Any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof to make or modify products or processes for specific use |
| Collective Farm | System of agricultural organization whereas farm laborers are not compensated via wages, but receive a share of the farm's net productivity |
| Commercial Agriculture | Large-scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology |
| Intensive Agriculture | Expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity |
| Extensive Agriculture | Use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity |
| Crop Rotation | Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid soil exhaustion |
| Dairying | Class of agricultural or animal husbandry enterprises, raising female lactating livestock for long-term milk production |
| Debt-for-Nature Swap | Agreement between developing nation in debt and at least one of its creditors; minimize debt's negative effect on developing nation and minimize environmental destruction that developing nations often cause |
| Double Cropping | Second crop is planted after the first has been harvested |
| Primary Activities | Extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering, and mining |
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