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AP Human Geography 5
Unit 5 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mediterranean Climate | A climate with winter precipitation, unusually mild winter, and clear skies with abundant sunshine; found along the Mediterranean sea and a few coastal regions. |
| Tropical Climate | Uniformly warm throughout the year, very humid rain forest climate, heavy precipitation. |
| Intensive Climate | Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that use higher levels of labor and capital relative to the size of the landholding. |
| Market Gardening | A small-scale farming system in which a farmer plants one to a few acres that produce a diverse mixture of vegetables and fruits, mostly for scale in local and regional markets. |
| Plantation Agriculture | Large landholding devoted to a capital-intensive, specialized production of a single tropical or subtropical crop for the global market place. |
| Mixed crop/Livestock Agriculture | A diverse system of Agriculture based on the cultivation of cereal grains and root crops (such as potatoes and yams) and the rearing of herd livestock |
| Extensive Agriculture | Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that require little hired labor or monetary investment to successfully raised crops and animals. |
| Shifting Cultivation | The cultivation of a plot of land until it becomes less productive, typically over a period of about 3-5 years; when productivity drops, the farmer shifts to a new plot of land that has been prepared by slash-and-burn agriculture. |
| Nomadic Herding | A system of breeding and rearing her livestock, such as cattle, sheep, or goats, by following the seasonal movement of rainfall to areas of open pasture lands. |
| Ranching | A form of agriculture focused on the raising of livestock for meat, wool, milk, and other animals products, typically on large tracts of land |
| Rural settlement pattern | small group of people living outside of an urban area. |
| Clustered Settlement | A tightly bunched farm settlement that has anywhere from a few dozen to several hundred inhabitants. |
| Dispersed Settlement | A settlement pattern in which families lives relatively distant from one another |
| Linear settlement pattern | A settlement in which buildings are arranged in a line, often a long a round or river; limited to areas where legal systems dictated that property lines must be rectangular |
| Rural Survey Method | System used to divide land in rural area, typically including "metes and bounding." |
| Metes and Bounds | Survey system that uses natural features such as trees, boulders, and streams to delineate property boundaries |
| Township and Range | Land survey system created by the U.S. land ordinance of 1785, which divides most of the |
| Long Lot | A unit-block surveying system whose basic units is a rectangle that is typically 10 times longer than it's wide. |
| Domestication | Long-term process through which humans selectively breed, protect, and care for individuals taken from populations of wild plants and animal species. |
| Fertile Crescent | Area in southeast Asia that includes the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates; the earliest center of domestication of seed plants. |
| Indus River Valley | Area along the Indus River that flows from the highlands of Tibet and continues down along the border between present-day Pakistan and India. |
| Southeast Asia | Consists of eleven countries that reach from India to China and is generally divided into mainland and island zones. |
| Central America | The land bridge between Mexico and South America |
| Columbian Exchange | The process by which commodities, people, and diseases cross the Atlantic |
| First Agricultural Revolution | The slow change from hunter and gather societies to more agriculturally based ones through gradual understanding. |
| Second Agriculture Revolution | Used the increased technology form the industrial revolution as a means to increase farm productivity through mechanization |
| Green Revolution | Development of higher-yield and fast growing crops through increased technology |
| Monocropping/Monoculture | The deliberate cultivation of only one single crop in a large land area. |
| Bid-Rent Theory | Price and demand for real estates change as the distance from Central business district. |
| High-Yield Seed | Genetically enhanced seeds designed to produce significantly higher crop yields |
| Mechanized Farming | Use of machinery -> technology to enhance agricultural production, making processes like planting |
| Subsistence Agriculture |
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