Question | Answer |
definition of agriculture | growing crops and raising animals to provide food and other products |
definition of cash crop | a crop grown to sell |
definition of commercial farming | farming to produce cash crops |
definition of domesticate | controlling a plant or animal for people to use |
definition of irrigation | manmade means of supplying water to crops or land |
definition of livestock | domesticated animals raised on a farm or ranch |
definition of migration | people moving where they live from one area to another |
definition of nomad | a person who moves a lot - has no permanent home |
definition of natural resource | materials found in nature that are useful to people |
definition of rural | a sparsely populated area outside of cities and towns |
definition of subsistence farming | growing just enough food for the farmer’s own use |
definition of surplus | an extra amount of something |
example of cash crop | examples in Illinois - corn, soybeans, pumpkins |
example of commercial farming | example - farms that sell wheat to companies that make pasta and bread |
example of domestication of animals | examples - when wolves became friends with people and when horses were saddled up and ridden |
example of irrigation | examples - sprinklers, ditches, soaker hoses |
example of livestock | examples - cows, goats, chickens, reindeer! and camels |
example of migration | examples - nomads moving their camel herd across the desert in search of water & grass |
example of nomad | examples -reindeer herders in Mongolia - remember their portable tents called yurts? |
examples of natural resources | examples - coal from mines in West Virginia
- oil from wells in Texas
- lobster from Maine
- clean water from Lake Michigan
- rich black Illinois soil |
description of rural | examples - barn with fenced-in herd of goats
- endless forests
- a barren desert
- Illinois cornfields as far as you can see |
example of subsistence farming | example - video we watched showing rice farmers on hillside terraces
- most American farmers when the USA was a baby country
- most farmers in Haiti |
example of surplus | examples - 198 acres of corn
- 25,000 hogs
- an apple orchard with 200 trees
- an 18-wheeler full of boxes of tomatoes
- a train with 42 cars filled to overflowing with coal |
example of domestication of plants | examples - corn planted in straight rows, all ready to pick at the same time - no weeds
-bags of wheat seed
-lawns
-GMOs
-Svarbald Seed Vault |