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AP HUG VOCAB 10
Vocabulary for AP Human Geography Ch 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agribusiness | commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry |
| Hull | the outer covering of a seed |
| Shifting Cultivation | a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to the other |
| Agriculture | the deliberate effort to modify a portion of the Earth's surface through cultivation of crops and raising of livestock for gain or sustenance |
| Cereal Grain | a grass yielding grain for food |
| Milkshed | the area surrounding a city from which milk is produced |
| Pastoral Nomadism | a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals |
| Spring Wheat | wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer |
| Chaff | husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing |
| Paddy | Malay word for wet rice, commonly used to describe a sawah |
| Combine | a machine the reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field |
| Pasture | grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing |
| Crop | grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season |
| Plantation | a large farm in tropical climates that specializes in production of one or two crops for sale to a more developed country |
| Swidden | a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning |
| Thresh | to beat out grain from stalks by trampling it |
| Crop Rotation | the practice of rotation of use of different fields each year to avoid exhausting the soil |
| Transhumance | the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures |
| Desertification | degradation of land, especially in semiarid zones, primarily because of human actions |
| Ranching | a form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area |
| Truck Farming | commercial gardening or fruit farming so named because "truck" was a middle English word meaning bartering |
| Reaper | a machine that cuts grain standing in the field |
| Double Cropping | harvesting twice a year from the same field |
| Grain | seed of a cereal grass |
| Ridge Tillage | system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conversion |
| Wet Rice | rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth |
| Green Revolution | rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers |
| Sawah | a flooded field for growing rice |
| Winnow | to remove shaft by allowing it to be blown away by the wind |
| Horticulture | the growing of fruits, vegetables and flowers |
| Seed Agriculture | reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds which result from sexual fertilization |
| Winter Wheat | wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer |
| Slash-and-burn Agriculture | another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing vegetation and burning debris |
| Intensive subsistence agriculture | a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a lot of effort to produce maximum yield from a parcel of land |
| Commercial Agriculture | agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
| Subsistence Agriculture | agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family |
| Sustainable Agriculture | farming methods that preserve long time productivity of the land and minimize pollution |
| Vegetative Planting | reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants |
| Prime Agricultural land | the most productive farmland |
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