Definitions for Topics 5.1-5.12
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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 | Exploitation of land for agricultural, industrial, residential, recreational, or other purposes.
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| intensive farming | show 🗑
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| Mediterranean Farming | show 🗑
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| show | The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers.
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| Plantation agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial farming characterized by integration of crops and livestock; most of the crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans.
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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 relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. Usually in a tropical climate
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| nomadic herding/pastoralism | show 🗑
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| show | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
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| double cropping | show 🗑
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| show | the spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth
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| rural settlement patterns | show 🗑
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| show | A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.
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| show | rigid grid-like pattern used to facilitate the dispersal of settlers evenly across farmlands
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| Greenbelt | show 🗑
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| fallow | show 🗑
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| Enclosure Acts | show 🗑
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| animal domestication | show 🗑
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| show | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
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| Columbian Exchange | show 🗑
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| show | Dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication. Move from hunters and gatherers to farming
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| show | movement in agriculture characterized by the use of high yield seeds and fertilizers
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| High-yield seeds | show 🗑
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| Mechanized farming | show 🗑
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| show | farmers raise food for themselves and their close community
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| Commercial agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | raising a single crop year to year
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| show | theory that describes that relationships between land value, commercial location, and transportation
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| show | integration of various steps in the food processing industry; includes production, transportation, marketing, retail, research and development, etc.
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| show | number of species that an area can support
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| show | cost reductions that occur when a product is produced in large quantities
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| show | a model that suggests that perishability of the product and transport costs to the market each factor into the location of agricultural land use and activity
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| show | flat, featureless landscape
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| show | the network involved in the production and distribution of a commodity
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| Export | show 🗑
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| show | a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold
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| Infrastructure | show 🗑
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| Desertification | show 🗑
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| Soil salinization | show 🗑
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| show | vegetation in an area is cut down and burned in place; the ash provides nutrients and the land can be farmed for a few years
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| show | farmers building a series of steps into the side of a hill creating flat surfaces on which to grow
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| show | plants and animals modified by extracting genes of one species and inserting them into the DNA of another species
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| show | the variety of organisms living in a location
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| Urban farming | show 🗑
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| show | agriculture that is practiced without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides
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| Fair trade | show 🗑
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| show | a change in the physical state or form of the product (such as milling wheat into flour or making strawberries into jam); the production of a product in a manner that enhances its value (such as organically produced products)
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| Food insecurity | show 🗑
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| show | aera where residents lack access to healthy, nutritious foods because stores selling these foods are too far away
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| Aquaculture | show 🗑
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| Luxury crops | show 🗑
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| show | transportation chains networks that keep food cool throughout a trip
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| show | financial support provided to farmers/producers by the government to ensure affordable food for consumers
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