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APHG CH 10 VOCAB
Wahowski Cy Lakes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |