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APHG CH 10 VOCAB
Wahowski Cy Lakes
Question | Answer |
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Agribusiness | Large scale farms that work as a business |
Agriculture | Deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber |
Cereal Grain | Grains such as oats, wheat, rye, or barely |
Chaff | Husks from rice patties |
Combine | Machine performs the three taks of respiong, threshing, and cleaning |
Commercial Agriculture | The production of food primarily for sale off the farm |
Crop | A plant cultivated by people |
Crop Rotation | Practice of rotating use of differnet fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil |
Double Cropping | Land used to obtain two harvests per year from one feild |
Grain | Seed from various grasses |
Horticulture | Growing of fruits, vegetagbles and flowers |
Hull | Outer covering of rice that is removed |
Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | Farming that provides for the family |
Milkshed | The ring that surrounds a city from with milk can be supplied without spoiling |
Paddy | Wet Rice |
Pastoral Nomadism | Form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals |
Pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals as well as land used for grazing. |
Plantation | Large farm that specializes in one or two crops |
Prime Agricultural Land | Most productive farmland |
Ranching | The commerical grazing of livestock over an extensive area |
Reaper | A machine that cuts grain standing in the field |
Sawah | |
Seed Agriculture | |
Slah-and-Burn Agriculture | |
Shifting Cultivation | |
Spring Wheat | |
Subsistence Agriculture | |
Swidden | |
Thresh | |
Transhumance | |
Truck Farming | |
Vegetative Planting | |
Wet Rice | |
Winnow | |
Winter Wheat |