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Agriculture
Agriculture Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Growing a crop or raising an animal for human use | Agriculture |
| The period where people began to farm. No one knows when it initially began | Agricultural Revolution |
| Preparing, planting, caring for, and harvesting a plant crop | Cultivation |
| Modifying a plant or animal species through selective breeding so that it becomes dependent on humans | Domestication |
| Where is the hearth for potatoes | Latin America |
| What are the major hearths for plant crops | Latin America, Southwest Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia |
| Where is the hearth for wheat? | Southwest Asia |
| Where is the hearth for rice? | East Asia |
| Where is the hearth for coconuts? | Southeast Asia |
| Where is the hearth for coffee? | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| A form of subsistence agriculture based off on the herding of animals | Pastoral Nomadism |
| The use of machinery in agriculture began | Second Agricultural Revolution |
| The production of food primarily for sale | Commercial Agriculture |
| The production of food primarily for the consumption of the farmers family | Subsistence Agriculture |
| The 5 major types of agriculture in developing regions | Pastoral nomadism, Shifting cultivation, Intensive subsistence(rice), Intensive subsistence(other crops), Plantation |
| A form of subsistence agriculture where the farmers shift activity from one field to another | Shifting Cultivation |