ap human unit 5 vocabulary
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| show | group's system of economic production. In non-industrial societies, it is usually based on food production.
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| show | People or societies 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
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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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| show | An attempt to explain the pattern of agricultural land use in terms of accessibility, costs, distance, and prices
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| Agricultural Origins | show 🗑
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| Agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | Domestication of animals for selling or using byproducts. -Helped us obtain meat with out having to go out and kill our food right before dinner.
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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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| 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 | government-owned farms and employed large numbers of workers; all crops distributed by the gov't
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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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| show | The areas in the world that include MDCs are called the core and the area of the world that contains the LDCs is referred to as the periphery.
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| Crop rotation | show 🗑
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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 | “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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| 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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| Double Cropping | show 🗑
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| Economic activity | show 🗑
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| economic activity | show 🗑
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| Enivornmetal modification | show 🗑
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| extensive subsistence agriculture | show 🗑
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| Nomadic herding/ pastoralism | show 🗑
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| Exractive industry | show 🗑
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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 in small farms.
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| Farming | show 🗑
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| Feedlot | show 🗑
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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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| show | A series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc.
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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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| show | A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasibly yield from a parcel of land.because the ratio between farmers and arable land is so high, most of the work
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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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| show | Farming in the land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea (Southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia), also in lands with similar climates (California, central Chile, Southwestern South Africa, and Southwestern Australia). Sea winds
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| Mineral Fuels | show 🗑
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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 Settlements | show 🗑
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| Dispersed | show 🗑
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| Nucleated | show 🗑
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| Building Material | show 🗑
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| show | houses and building are built from material provided by the environment
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| show | defined cultural landscape, as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group. A combination of cultural features such as language and religion
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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, and Command and Control Centers), offer a narrow and highly specialized variety of services. Typically specialize in management, research and development of a specific industry (motor vehicles in Detroit)
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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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| show | suvey on the trend of houses, ownerships, metes, bounds, and range
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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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| show | Survey’s used west of Ohio, after the purchase of the Louisiana Purchase. Land is divided into six-mile square blocks (township), which is then divided into one-mile square blocks (range).
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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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| Mechanization | show 🗑
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| Chemical Farming | show 🗑
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| show | the Green Revolution has increased production to avoid widespread famine. Allowing 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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| show | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities.
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| show | 1826, Northern Germany. When choosing an enterprise, a commercial farmer compares two costs; cost of the land versus the cost of transporting production to market. Identifies a crop that can be sold for more than the land cost, distance of land
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