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Agriculture
Unit 5 of Human Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agribusiness | an all-encompassing term for the business that provide a vast array of goods and services to support the agricultural business |
| Organic Agriculture | the production of crops without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers |
| Agriculture | the deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food, feed, fiber, and fuel |
| Primary Economic Activites | economic activities that involve the extraction of economically valuable products |
| Secondary Economic Activities | activities that take a primary product and change it into something else such as toys, ships, processed foods, chemicals, and buildings |
| Tertiary Economic Activities | service industries that connect producers to consumers and facilitate commerce and trade or help people meet their needs |
| Quaternary Economic Activites | services concerned with information or the exchange of money and the exchange of money or goods |
| Quinary Economic Activities | services tied to research of higher education |
| Root Crops | crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants |
| Seed Crops | plants that are reproduced by cultivating seeds |
| Subsistence Agriculture | growing only enough food to survive |
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