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show Describes a society's system of economic production -helps explain some of the differences between societies that are influenced by economy.  
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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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Agribusiness   show
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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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Agriculture   show
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Animal Domestication   show
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Aquaculture   show
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show The revolution of biotechnology and the use of it in societies. See reasoning for below term  
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Biotechnology   show
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Collective farm   show
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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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Crop Rotation   show
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Cultivation regions   show
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Dairying   show
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show When agencies such as the World Bank make a deal with third world countries that they will cancel their debt if the country will set aside a certain amount of their natural resources.  
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Diffusion   show
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show Harvesting twice a year from the same land -Can cause agricultural exhaustion making people move away from the land  
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show Primary:Involves jobs like lumber & mining Secondary:Manufacturing products/assembling raw materials Tertiary: Service; provide us transportation/communication/utilities Quaternary: Service; involve info/capital Quinary:Service; require specialties  
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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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show industries involved in the activities of: prospecting and exploring for a nonrenewable resource, getting them, further exploring them, developing them, or extracting them from the earth  
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show The mass production of farm products that lowers the prices, which lowers the profits for farmers. This had led to the decrease of small farms.  
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Farming   show
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show a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market -Essential to how we live and eat today- necessity for most people’s diets  
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First agricultural revolution   show
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show The technique, occupation, or diversion of catching fish. Fishing provides a food source and employment to society.  
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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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show Before the agriculture, humans gained food by hunting for animals, fishing, or gathering plants. They lived in small groups (less than 50 people), traveled frequently following game and seasonal growth of plants  
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Intensive Subsistence Agriculture   show
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Intertillage   show
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Livestock Ranching   show
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Market Gardening   show
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show Farming in land around Med. Sea (S Europe, N Africa, and W Asia), also in lands with same climates (California, central Chile, SW South Africa, and SW Australia).Growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, & tree crops=main crops, animals grown by transhumance  
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Mineral Fuels   show
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Mining   show
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show Economic system where single agency makes decisions about production and allocation of goods & services. Commonly used where state/government controls the factors of production and makes all decisions about their use and about the distribution of income.  
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Renewable   show
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Non-Renewable   show
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Rural Settlement   show
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show Characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in the area.  
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-Nucleated   show
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show houses and buildings are typically built from materials that are abundant in the area.  
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show inear- tightly packed, need land for farming cluster- may have began as a hamlet, then further developed round- keep animals inside, houses surrounding them walled- farm villages fortified for protection grid- easy to get around in, modern  
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show defined cultural landscape, area fashioned from nature by a culture; Combo of cultural things(language/religion); economic things(agriculture/industry); & physical things(climate/vegetation). “Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cult  
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show Precursor to Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, that allowed a shift in work force beyond subsistence farming to allow labor to work in factories.  
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show Third level of cities (behind World Cities & Command/Control Centers), offer a narrow and highly specialized variety of services. Typically specialize in management, research and development of a specific industry or are centers of gov't. and education  
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Staple Grains   show
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Suitcase Farm   show
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Long Lots (French)   show
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show Uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define the boundaries of a particular piece of land. Metes refers to boundary defined by a measurement of a straight run, bounds refers to a more general boundary  
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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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show ‘Green Revolution’ Rapid diffusion of new agricultural techniques between 1970’s and 1980’s, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. Has caused agricultural productivity at a global scale to increase faster than population growth.  
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Mechanization   show
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Chemical Farming   show
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Food Manufacturing   show
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show social trap that involves a conflict over resources between interests and the common good.  
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show pastoral practice of seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas.  
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show Commercial gardening and fruit farming. Predominant in Southeastern U.S.A, because of the long growing season and humid climate, accessibility to large markets of big cities  
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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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