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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