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Chp. 10 Vocab WB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Argibusiness | commericial agriculture characterized by the integration of diffrent steps in the food-processing business industry |
| Agriculture | the deliberate effort to modifiy a portion of Earth through the cultivation of crops and rasing livestock for economic growth or sustenance |
| Cereal Grain | a grass yeilding grain for food |
| Chaff | husks of grain seprated from the seed by thresing |
| Combine | a machine that reaps threashes and cleans grain while moving over a field |
| Commerical Agriclture | agricultre undertaken primarly to generate products for sale off the farm |
| Crop | grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a season |
| Crop Roation | the practice of roationing use of diffrent fields from crop to crop to avoid exausting of soil |
| desertification | degradation of land primarily because of human actions like excesive crop planting |
| Double Cropping | harvesting twice a year from the same field |
| Grain | seed of ceral grain |
| Green Revolution | rapid diffusion of new agriculture technology |
| Horticulture | the growing fruits, vegtables and flowers |
| Hull | the outer covering of a seed |
| Intensive subsistence agriculture | a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must put a large amount of effort to producethe maxium |
| Milkshed | The area surronding a city from which milk is supplied |
| Paddy | word for wet rice |
| Pastrol Nomadism | a from of subsistence based on herding animals |
| Pasture | grass or other plants grown for grazing animals m |
| Plantation | a large farm in tropical climates that specilizes in the production of one or two crops for MDC |
| Prime Agriculture land | the most productive farmland |
| Ranching | a form of commerical agriculture with livestock |
| reaper | A machine that cuts cereal grain standing in the field |
| Ridge tillage | system of planting crops ridge tops in order to reduce farm production cost and promote greater soil conservation |
| Sawah | A flooded field for growing rice |
| Shifiting Cultivation | a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another each field is used for ahort time and left empty for a long time |
| Slash- and burn agriculture | another name for shifiting so named because fields are cleared by slashing vegatation |
| spring wheat | wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the summer |
| substience agriculture | agriculture made for themseleves |
| sustainable agriculture | farming methods that perform a long term production of land and minamize pollution |
| Swidden | a patch of land cleared for planting through slash and burn |
| Thresh | to beat out grain from stalks |
| transhumance | the seasonal migration of livestock between livestock high and low |
| truck farming | commerical gardening and fruit farming |
| wet rice | rice planted on dryland then into a flooded plain |
| winnow | to remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind |
| winter wheat | wheat plannted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer |
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