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Adaptive strategies   show
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show People/socities that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest ext. -Where agrarian people and societies are located is not generally near cities ext. but these types of people are essential to the way we live and our ability to live in cities.  
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show Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations It influences how things are grown and what people eat  
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show The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors ext. Makes it a lot faster for farmers to yield crop  
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show The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields. Effects how much yield one gets from their plants.  
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Agricultural location model   show
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Agricultural Origins   show
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show The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain. It has influenced the growth of areas and human society  
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Animal Domestication   show
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Aquaculture   show
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Biorevolution   show
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show Using living organisms in a useful way to produce commercial products like pest resistant crops. -Has helped the farmers grow a more bountiful harvest through the using of pesticides ext.  
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show an agricultural production unit including a number of farm households or villages working together under state control.  
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show Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. -Allowed people to move away from farms- fueled industrial revolution  
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Core/Periphery   show
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show The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. -Takes up large areas of land but keeps land usable for future generations  
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show Regions were there is agricultural activity - Areas with agricultural activity generally are not a place were a big city would be located- affects locations of different areas.  
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show The “farming” and sale/distribution of milk and milk products. -Gets us calcium, allows for people to move to the city because there is a way of getting milk or milk products.  
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Debt-for-nature swap   show
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show The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. -Influences the development of some regions faster than others  
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Double Cropping   show
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Economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary):   show
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Environmental Modifications (pesticides, soil erosion, desertification)   show
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Extensive subsistence agriculture (shifting cultivation, nomadic herding/pastoralism)   show
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Extractive Industry   show
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Farm crises   show
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show The cultivation of crops  
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Feedlot   show
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First agricultural revolution   show
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Fishing   show
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Food Chain   show
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Forestry   show
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show Diffusion of agriculture across the globe.  
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show Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizer. Because of Green Revolution, agricultural productivity at a global scale has increased faster than the population.  
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show The season in which crops grow best. Growing season can vary by location, societies rely on their growing season to which crops they can or can’t grow at their latitude.  
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Hunting and Gathering   show
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Intensive Subsistence Agriculture   show
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show Tillage between rows of crops of plants  
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show commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area. Practiced is semi-arid or arid land, where vegetation is too sparse or the soil to too poor to support crops.  
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show The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers. Distinguishable by the large diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, during a single growing season. Labor is done manually  
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Mediterranean Agriculture   show
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show Natural resources containing hydrocarbons, which are not derived from animal or plant sources.  
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Mining   show
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Planned Economy   show
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show Energy replaced continually within a human lifespan, has an essentially unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by people. Solar energy, hydroelectric, geothermal, fusion and wind, are the most widely used.  
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show Energy formed so slowly that for practical purposes it cannot be renewed. The three main fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, and coal) plus nuclear energy are the most widely used, mostly because they are more cost efficient.  
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Rural Settlement   show
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-Dispersed   show
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show a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings.  
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-Building Material   show
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-Village Form   show
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Sauer, Carl O.   show
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Second Agricultural Revolution   show
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Specialization   show
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Staple Grains   show
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show Individuals who live in urban areas a great distance from their land and drive to the country to care for their crops and livestock. This practice lends itself well to the growth of wheat.  
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Long Lots (French)   show
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Metes and Bounds (English)   show
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Township-and-Range   show
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show Ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, the surplus required to maintain nature’s services at the same or increasing level over time.  
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Third Agricultural Revolution   show
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show Farmers need machinery to make the most effective use of the new miracle seeds. Farmers in LDC’s cannot afford this machinery or the fuel to run the equipment, so gov't. gather funds to subsidize the cost of seeds, fertilizers & machinery.  
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Chemical Farming   show
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show the Green Revolution has increased production to avoid widespread famineAllowing the world population to grow about four billion since stared, also allowing populations in developing nations to consume 25% more than before.  
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show social trap that involves a conflict over resources between interests and the common good.  
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Transhumance   show
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Truck Farm   show
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show German; proposed a model that showed how to be efficient with agriculture and transportation surrounding a city. Model was composed of rings  
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