Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Food and Agriculture - AP Human Geography, Chapter 10, Rubenstein

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Agribusiness   show
🗑
Aquaculture/ aquafarming   show
🗑
show A grass that yields grain for food  
🗑
Chaff   show
🗑
show A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field  
🗑
show Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm  
🗑
Crop roation   show
🗑
Desertification   show
🗑
Dietary energy consumption   show
🗑
show Harvesting twice a year from the same field  
🗑
show Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs for an active and healthy life  
🗑
show Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially high-yield seeds and fertilizers  
🗑
Horticulture   show
🗑
show The outer covering of a seed  
🗑
show A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers expend a large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.  
🗑
Milkshed   show
🗑
Paddy   show
🗑
show A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals  
🗑
Plantation   show
🗑
show The most productive farmland  
🗑
show A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area  
🗑
Reaper   show
🗑
Ridge tillage   show
🗑
show A flooded field for growing rice  
🗑
show A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another. Each field is used for crops for a few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.  
🗑
show Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris  
🗑
Spring wheat   show
🗑
Sustainable agriculture   show
🗑
show A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning  
🗑
Thresh   show
🗑
show The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures  
🗑
Truck farming   show
🗑
Undernourishment   show
🗑
Wet rice   show
🗑
Winnow   show
🗑
show Wheat planted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: emilyjane1221
Popular AP Human Geography sets