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Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstein Ch 9

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Agribusiness   show
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show The process that began when humans first domesticated plants and animals, and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.  
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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 sustenance or economic gain.  
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show The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions.  
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Cash crop   show
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show A grass that yields grain for food.  
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show The transfer of plants and animals, as well as people, culture, and technology, between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, as a result of European colonization and trade.  
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show Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.  
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show Relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables, and other horticulture.  
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Conservation tillage   show
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Crop   show
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Crop rotation   show
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show Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.  
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Dietary energy consumption   show
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show Harvesting twice a year from the same field.  
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Food security   show
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show A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern technology.  
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show Seed of a cereal grass.  
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Green revolution   show
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show A chemical to control unwanted plants.  
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Horticulture   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 feasible yield from a parcel of land.  
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show The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.  
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Mixed crop and livestock farming   show
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show The practice of growing the same single crop year after year.  
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No tillage   show
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Organic agriculture   show
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Overfishing   show
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Paddy   show
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show A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.  
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Pesticide   show
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show A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.  
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show A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.  
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show System of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.  
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show A flooded field for growing rice.  
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show An increase in agricultural productivity through improvement of crop rotation and breeding of livestock, beginning in the U.K. in the seventeenth century.  
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show A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.  
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Subsistence agriculture   show
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Sustainable agriculture   show
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Swidden   show
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show Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.  
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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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Undernourishment   show
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show Rice planted on dryland in a nursery then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote grown.  
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