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Quiz 11 AP HUMAN
Vocabulary List
Question | Answer |
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Subsistence Agriculture | Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade. |
Sustainable Agriculture | Any of a number of environmentally friendly farming methods that preserve an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources. |
Sustainable Development | Any construction that can be maintained over time without damaging the environment; development balancing near-term interests with the protection of the interests of future generations. |
Swidden | A plot of land cleared for farming by burning away vegetation. |
Taboo | Proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable. |
Tertiary Sector | Economic activity associated with the provision of services-such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs. |
Textile | Any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. |
Thresh | ? |
Threshold | The point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced. |
Toponym | Place name. |
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year. |
Township | A unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces. |
Transhumance | A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures. |
Transnational Corporation | Any corporation that is registered and operates in more than one country at a time; also called a multinational corporation. |
Triangular Slave Trade | Trade route between Britian, the West Indies, and America that traded goods and slaves. |
Truck Farming | A farm for the growing of vegetables for the market. |
Underclass | A social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status. |
Uneven Development | On a multitude of scales, the condition of an economy which has not benefited equally from development either in a spatial sense and/or within classes in society. |