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AP Human Vocab 5
Vocab for Unit 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptive strategies | way in which each culture uses it's particular physical environment |
| Agrarian | People or societies that are farmers |
| Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry |
| Agricultural Industrialization | Use of machinery in agriculture |
| Agricultural landscape | Land that we farm on and what we choose to put where on our fields |
| Agricultural location model | explains the pattern of agricultural land use in terms of accessibility, costs, distance, and prices |
| Agricultural Origins | Nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them |
| Agriculture | Effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock |
| Animal Domestication | Domestication of animals for selling or using byproducts |
| Aquaculture | Cultivation of aquatic organisms |
| Biorevolution | Biotechnology and the use of it in societies |
| Biotechnology | Using living organisms in a useful way to produce commercial products |
| Collective farm | number of farms organized as a unit |
| Commercial Agriculture | Generates products for sale off the farm |
| Core/Periphery | Areas in the world that include MDCs and area of the world that contains the LDCs is referred to as the periphery |
| Crop Rotation | Rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year |
| Cultivation regions | Regions were there is agricultural activity |
| Dairying | "Farming” and sale/distribution of milk and milk products |
| Debt-for-nature swap | Agencies make deal with third world countries that they will cancel their debt if the country will set aside a certain amount of their natural resources |
| Diffusion | Spread of a feature or trend from one place to another |
| Double Cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same land |
| Primary economic activity | Involves jobs like lumber and mining |
| Secondary economic activity | Manufacturing products and assembling raw materials |
| Tertiary economic activity | The service sector that provides us with transportation, communication and utilities |
| Quaternary economic activity | consists of intellectual activities like government, culture, libraries, scientific research, and education |
| Quinary economic activity | highest levels of decision making in a society or economy like government, science, universities, and the media |
| Environmental Modifications | Destruction of the environment for the purpose of farming |
| Shifting Cultivation | Using many fields for crop growing |
| Nomadic herding | Herding domesticated animals |
| Extractive Industry | responsible for providing the raw materials that make it possible for you to survive |
| Farm crisis | describing times of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes that can lead to farm bankruptcy |
| Farming | rowing crops and raising livestock |
| Feedlot | plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market |
| First agricultural revolution | Around 8000 B.C. when humans first domesticated plants and animals |
| Fishing | Catching fish |
| Food Chain | Series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits |
| Forestry | Science of planting and taking care of trees and forests |
| Globalized Agriculture | Diffusion of agriculture |
| Green Revolution | Diffusion of new agricultural technology |
| Growing Season | Season in which crops grow best |
| Hunting and Gathering | Humans gained food by hunting for animals, fishing, or gathering plants |
| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | Farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort |
| Intertillage | Tillage between rows of crops of plants |
| Livestock Ranching | Commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area |
| Market Gardening | Small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
| Mediterranean Agriculture | Farming in the land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea |
| Mineral Fuels | Natural resources containing hydrocarbons |
| Mining | Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth |
| Planned Economy | Economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions |
| Renewable | Energy replaced continually within a human lifespan |
| Non-Renewable | Energy formed so slowly that for practical purposes it cannot be renewed |
| Rural Settlement | Sparsely settled places |
| Dispersed Settlement | Characterized by farmers living on individual farms |
| Nucleated Settlement | a number of families live in close proximity to each other |
| Building Material | houses and buildings are typically built from materials that are abundant |
| Village Form | small community or group of houses in a rural area |
| Sauer, Carl O. | defined cultural landscape, as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group |
| Second Agricultural Revolution | Precursor to Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, that allowed a shift in work force |
| Specialization | A narrow and highly specialized variety of services |
| Staple Grains | Maize, wheat, and rice are the most produced grains produced world wide |
| Long Lots Survey Patterns | Houses erected on narrow lots perpendicular along a river |
| Metes and Bounds Survey Patterns | physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define the boundaries of a particular piece of land |
| Township-and-Range | Survey’s used west of Ohio |
| Sustainable Yield | Ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself |
| Third Agricultural Revolution | diffusion of new agricultural techniques between 1970’s and 1980’s, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers |
| Mechanization | Farmers need tractors, irrigation pumps, and other machinery to make the most effective use of the new miracle seeds |
| Chemical Farming | Increased use of fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium |
| Food Manufacturing | increased production to avoid widespread famine |
| Tragedy of the Commons | social trap that involves a conflict over resources between interests and the common good |
| Transhumance | seasonal migration of livestock |
| Truck Farm | gardening and fruit farming |
| Von Thunen, Johann Heinrich | cost of the land versus the cost of transporting production to market |
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