Chapter 8
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Scientific revolution in agriculture | the addition of new crops and other technologies over the past 200 years is part of the continuing application of science to agriculture that began in the late eigtheenth century
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| Aquaculture | herding or domesticating aquatic animals
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| Hunger | deficiency in any or all basic requirements
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| Biotechnology | variety of new techniques for modifying organisms and their physiological process for applied purposes
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| Deforestation | destruction of the forests
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| Exclusive economic zone | controls both mining and fishing rights
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| Fishery | area where certain kinds of fishing or fish farming are used to yield certain species
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| Isotropic plain | imaginary city market in a perfectly flat plain with absolutely no variations on it
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| Sustainable agriculture | food production that can be continued indefinitely and that limits or even reverses environmental degradation
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| Downstream activities | the economic activities closer to the consumers
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| Value added by manufacturing | the difference between the value of a raw material and the value of a product manufactured from that raw material
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| Double cropping | two rice crops can be harvested per year from one field
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| Swidden | use tools and animals and more extensive modifications of landscape
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| Economies of scale | achieve greater earnings per unit produced only by expanding the number of units produced
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| Monoculture | specialized production of one crop
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| Polyculture | the raising of a variety of crops
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| Commercial agriculture | growing food and raising animal products for sale
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| Subsistence agriculture | agricultural to feed oneself and family
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| Agricultural inputs | all the factors that go into growing and harvesting a crop
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| Green revolution | the effort to increase food production
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