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Chapter 9 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry , usually through ownership by large corporations |
| Agricultural revolution | The process that began when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
| 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 |
| bid-rent theory | The price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district increases |
| cash crop | A crop that is grown for sale, rather than for the farmers own use |
| carrying capacity | The maximum number of individuals (or population) that an environment can sustainably support without using all its resources |
| columbian exchange | The transfer of plants and animals, as well as people, culture, and technology, between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, as a result of European colonization and trade |
| commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for the sale |
| crop rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil. |
| double cropping | Harvesting twice in a year from the same field |
| food security | Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life |
| food deserts | Urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh and affordable food |
| Genetically modified organism | A living organism that possess a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology |
| green revolution | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high yield seeds and fertilizers |
| Intensive subsistence agriculture | A form of subsistence agriculture characteristic of Asia’s major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land |
| land cover | The agricultural usage of land in the world |
| monocropping | The practice of growing the same single crop year after year |
| organic agriculture | Farming that depends on the use of naturally occurring substances while prohibiting or strictly limiting synthetic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and growth hormones |
| pastoral nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals |
| pesticide | A substances to control pests, including weeds |
| Second Agricultural Revolution | An increase in agricultural productivity through improvements of crop rotation and breeding of livestock, beginning in the United Kingdom in the seventeenth century |
| subsistence agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide enough food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family |
| transhumance | Seasonal migration of livestock between mountain and lowland pasture area |
| undernourishment | Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity |
| wet rice | Rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth |
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