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Agri-Rural Cards
Terms from Agricultural-Rural Land Use
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | ___ is deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain. |
| Hunting-Gathering | The practice of acquiring food through hunting wild animals and gathering food from wild plants. |
| Origins of Agriculture | Describes the way in which agriculture originated: through long trials and errors over thousands of years. |
| Transhumance | Seasonal migration of domesticated livestock between mountains and pastures. |
| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | A form of subsistence farming in which intense effort is applied to produce maximum yield from a bit of land. |
| Green Revolution | The use of genetically modified plants and crops to maximize yield and create hardier, more nutritious plants, along with much better agricultural technologies. |
| Extensive Subsistence Agriculture | The use of relatively lower effort per unit of land to produce crops. |
| Tropical Plantations | Large farms located in tropical areas to grow plants that grow well in warmer climates like: rice, sugar cane, bananas, etc. |
| Boserup Hypothesis | A direct counter to Malthus' Theory, Ester Boserup hypothesized that rather than the agricultural technology determining the population, if necessity was high enough, humans would determine a way to supply themselves. |
| Primary Economic Activites | These are activities that involve extraction of natural resources from Earth for the benefit of manking. Examples are farming, fishing, mining, etc. |
| Fertile Crescent | The land flooded by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers; site of the first civilizations on Earth. |
| Extensive vs Intensive Agriculture | Extensive agriculture requires less effort per acre to generate gain than intensive |
| Capital-Intensive vs Labor-Intensive | Capital-intensive processes require a lot of money vs labor-intensive processes which require a lot of raw labor |
| Industrial Revolution's Effect on Agriculture | The IR created much more efficient methods of doing rote agriculture tasks like plowing and seeding, allowing much of the process to be mechanized; in the process, it put many people out of work. |
| Negative Impacts of the Green Revolution | The Green Revolution caused a population boom that was not altogether without its negative consequences; it also increased pollution world wide. |
| Maladaptive Diffusion | __ is the diffusion of an idea or practice into an area in which it is not suitable, i.e., growing roses in Alaska. |
| Commercial Agriculture | A form of Agriculture in which many of its steps are integrated into a few through large companies. |
| Commercial Livestock Production | The production of livestock for commercial purposes. |
| Commercial Grain Farming | Production of grain products like bread for sale. |
| Mixed and Specialty crop farming | The practice of a) farming a variety of crops in a region and b) farming crops known as specialties to the region |
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