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APHG 11
Agriulture
| term | definition | example |
|---|---|---|
| agriculture | Tending crops and livestock | Raising cows or growing corn |
| primary economic activity | 1st of steps | Growning of |
| secondary economic activity | 2nd of steps | Transforming raw materials for our use |
| tertiary economic activity | 3rd of steps | Services for farming banking educating and retailing |
| quaternary economic activity | 4th of steps | Processing and manipulation of data |
| plant domestication | Manipulation of plants for our benefit | Artificial selection |
| root crops | Crop that reproduces through roots | Potatoes |
| seed crops | Crops that reproduce though seeds | Corn |
| First Agricultural Revolution | When we invented farming | |
| animal domestication | General modification of animals, rendered more amenable to human control | Farm raising pigs |
| subsistence agriculture | Growing only to supports selves | Mostly in periphery |
| shifting cultivation | Cultivation of crops moving to the next area every few years due to overusage | Slash and burn agricultural |
| slash and burn agriculture | When trees are burnt in thè clearing of one plot of land and farmed there ashes used to fertilize soil | |
| second agriculture revolution | Farming benefiting from | |
| von thunen model | Explains the location of agricultural because of rent and transportation | Created long ago. City at center. Perishables surround. Forests surround... |
| Third agricultural revolution | Green revolution. Genetic engineering | |
| generically modified organisms | Organisms who's genetics were specifically chosen (through ancestors) for a reason | |
| rectangular survey system | Aka public land survey. Gov. Gave land to people west of Appalachian Mts. | Township and range system |
| township and range system | rectangular land scheme by Thomas Jefferson to distribute settlers evenly | |
| metes and bounds survey | land system E of Appalachian Mts. imprecise system (demarcated by land) | |
| longlot survey | land divided into long strips (along rivers and such) | Texas |
| primogeniture | system where eldest son receives land from father | |
| commercial agriculture | Large scale farming (w machinery) intending to make a profit | Farming corn for a company |
| monoculture | Dependence on signal crop | Farmers that only grow corn |
| Koppen climatic classification system | system that classifies climates around the world | |
| climatic regions | Regions around world w similar climates | A hot very warm humid |
| plantation agriculture | production system based on large plantations | |
| luxury crops | Non substantial crop | Tea, coffee |
| livestock ranching | Raising domestic animals for eat and other parts | Cows, lambs, pigs |
| Mediterranean agriculture | Specialized farming of crops native to Mediterranean | Olives, citrus, some veggies |
| agribusiness | General term for business that provides goods and services to farmers | Company that makes machinery for farms |
| Quinary economic activity | Fifth of the steps | Research for farming |
| organic agriculture | Approach of farming and ranching that avoids pesticides or hormones |
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