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Agriculture Vocab
Words from learning objective 5.1-5.4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. |
| land-use patterns | Exploitation of land for agricultural, industrial, residential, recreational, or other purposes. |
| intensive farming | farming that requires a lot of labor to produce food |
| Mediterranean Farming | Southern Europe, Southern California, Southern Africa -Grows olives, grapes, fruits, vegetables -Commercial -Extensive |
| Market gardening | The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers. |
| Plantation agriculture | Growing specialized crops such as bananas, coffee, and cacao in tropical developing countries, primarily for sale to developed countries. |
| mixed crop and livestock farming | Commercial farming characterized by integration of crops and livestock; most of the crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans. |
| extensive farming practices | an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed. |
| shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. Usually in a tropical climate |
| nomadic herding/pastoralism | migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage |
| ranching | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. |
| milk shed | The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied. |
| feed lots | confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement |
| double cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field. |
| settlement patterns | the spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth |
| rural settlement patterns | farms, villages, or towns that have any of the following patterns- dispersed, clustered, or linear |
| metes and bounds | A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land. |
| township and range | rigid grid-like pattern used to facilitate the dispersal of settlers evenly across farmlands |
| long-lot survey system | divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals |
| Greenbelt | A ring of land maintained as parks, agricultural, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area |
| fallow | plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; land left unseeded; to plow but not seed |
| Enclosure Acts | a series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights to land that was previously considered common. |
| animal domestication | When animals are tamed and used for food and profit. |
| Fertile Crescent | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. |
| First Agricultural Revolution | Dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication. Move from hunters and gatherers to farming |
| Second Agricultural Revolution | dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm products. |
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