Agriculture Vocab
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| agrarian | show 🗑
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| show | highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
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| agricultural landscape | show 🗑
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| show | deals with both the location - allocation process of land uses by farmers, and the spatial organization of agricultural land uses
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| agriculture | show 🗑
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| animal domestication | show 🗑
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| aquaculture | show 🗑
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| show | any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use
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| show | agricultural organization where farm laborers are not compensated with wages, instead they receive a share of the farm’s net productivity. The Soviet Union undertook the world’s first campaign of mass collectivization from 1929-1933.
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| commercial agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | putting much labor and capital into a piece of land to increase the rate at which goods are produced or work is completed
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| extensive agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | an agricultural business for raising female cattle, goats, or other lactating livestock for long-term production of milk, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy for processing and retail sale
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| show | an agreement between a developing nation in debt and one or more of its creditors to forgive debts in return for the promise of environmental protection
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| double cropping | show 🗑
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| show | the extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering and mining
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| secondary activities | show 🗑
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| tertiary activities | show 🗑
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| show | service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance and legal services.
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| quinary activities | show 🗑
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| environmental modification | show 🗑
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| show | cultivation of crops in tropical forest areas in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. Also known as slash-and-burn agriculture.
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| show | the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
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| show | a factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
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| first agricultural revolution | show 🗑
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| Green Revolution | show 🗑
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| hunting and gathering | show 🗑
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| intensive subsistence agriculture | show 🗑
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| livestock ranching | show 🗑
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| market gardening | show 🗑
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| show | accounts for virtually all olive oil produced worldwide, 60% of wine production, 45% of grape production, 25% of dried nuts (mostly almonds, chestnuts, and walnuts), 20% of citrus production, and about 12% of total cereal production.
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| paddy rice farming | show 🗑
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| show | economic system where single agency makes all decisions about production and allocation of goods/services; state/government controls factors of production and makes all decisions about their use and distribution of income; also known as a command economy
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| show | deliberately planted and tended by humans; genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding
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| plantation agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | a resource that must be depleted to be used, such as petroleum
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| dispersed | show 🗑
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| show | a relatively dense settlement form
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| Second agricultural revolution | show 🗑
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| show | in American commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
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| show | distinct regional approach to land surveying found in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Louisiana, and Texas whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, and canals
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| show | system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains - relies on descriptions of land and natural features such as streams or trees. Because it was imprecise, the U.S. Land Office Survey abandoned the technique for the rectangular survey system.
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| show | a rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior, also called rectangular survey system
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| show | (mechanization, chemical farming, food manufacturing) currently in progress, it has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
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| “Tragedy of the commons” | show 🗑
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| show | a seasonal regular movement of pastoralists (livestock raisers) and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures.
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| show | commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the word was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
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| show | German scholar-farmer, developed core-periphery model (economic determinism). Proposed an “isolated state” - no trade with outside world; possessed only one market, located centrally in the state; had uniform soil, climate, and level terrain.
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