The purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival.

An area where different groups began to domesticate plants and animals.

A theory that describes the relationships between land value, commercial location, and transportation (primarily in urban areas) using a bid-rent gradient, or slope; used to describe how land costs are determined.

Central business district (CBD)

The central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city or town because the accessibility of the location attracts these services.

An area that has similar climate patterns generally based on its latitude and its location on a coast or continental interior.

A rural settlement pattern in which residents live in close proximity to one another, with farmland and pasture land surrounding the settlement; also known as nucleated settlement.

Commercial agriculture

An agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for others to purchase.

The exchange of goods and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that began after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492.

The varying of crops from year to year to allow for the restoration of valuable nutrients and the continuing productivity of the soil.

A rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings are isolated from one another, and all the homes in a settlement are distributed over a relatively large area.

The deliberate effort to grow plants and raise animals, making plants and animals adapt to human demands and using selective breeding to develop desirable characteristics.

System in which communal were replaced by farms owned by individuals, and use of the land was restricted to the owner or tenants who rented the land from the owner.

Extensive agriculture

An agricultural practice with relatively few inputs and little investment in labor and capital that results in relatively low outputs.

A hearth in Southwest Asia that forms an arc from the eastern Mediterranean coast up into what is now western Turkey and then south and east along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to western parts of modern Iran.

First agricultural revolution

The shift from foraging for food to farming about 11,000 years ago, marking the beginning of agriculture.

Small, nomadic groups who had primarily plant-based diets and ate small animals or fish for protein.

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Question	Answer
Agriculture	The purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival.
Agricultural hearth	An area where different groups began to domesticate plants and animals.
Bid-rent theory	A theory that describes the relationships between land value, commercial location, and transportation (primarily in urban areas) using a bid-rent gradient, or slope; used to describe how land costs are determined.
Central business district (CBD)	The central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city or town because the accessibility of the location attracts these services.
Climate region	An area that has similar climate patterns generally based on its latitude and its location on a coast or continental interior.
Clustered settlement	A rural settlement pattern in which residents live in close proximity to one another, with farmland and pasture land surrounding the settlement; also known as nucleated settlement.
Commercial agriculture	An agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for others to purchase.
Columbian Exchange	The exchange of goods and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that began after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492.
Crop rotation	The varying of crops from year to year to allow for the restoration of valuable nutrients and the continuing productivity of the soil.
Dispersed settlement	A rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings are isolated from one another, and all the homes in a settlement are distributed over a relatively large area.
Domestication	The deliberate effort to grow plants and raise animals, making plants and animals adapt to human demands and using selective breeding to develop desirable characteristics.
Enclosure system	System in which communal were replaced by farms owned by individuals, and use of the land was restricted to the owner or tenants who rented the land from the owner.
Extensive agriculture	An agricultural practice with relatively few inputs and little investment in labor and capital that results in relatively low outputs.
Fertile Crescent	A hearth in Southwest Asia that forms an arc from the eastern Mediterranean coast up into what is now western Turkey and then south and east along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to western parts of modern Iran.
First agricultural revolution	The shift from foraging for food to farming about 11,000 years ago, marking the beginning of agriculture.
Foragers	Small, nomadic groups who had primarily plant-based diets and ate small animals or fish for protein.

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