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Words from learning objective 5.1-5.4

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agriculture   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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land-use patterns   Exploitation of land for agricultural, industrial, residential, recreational, or other purposes.  
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intensive farming   farming that requires a lot of labor to produce food  
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Mediterranean Farming   Southern Europe, Southern California, Southern Africa -Grows olives, grapes, fruits, vegetables -Commercial -Extensive  
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Market gardening   The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers.  
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Plantation agriculture   Growing specialized crops such as bananas, coffee, and cacao in tropical developing countries, primarily for sale to developed countries.  
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mixed crop and livestock farming   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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extensive farming practices   an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.  
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shifting cultivation   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   migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage  
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ranching   A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.  
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milk shed   The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.  
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feed lots   confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement  
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double cropping   Harvesting twice a year from the same field.  
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settlement patterns   the spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth  
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rural settlement patterns   farms, villages, or towns that have any of the following patterns- dispersed, clustered, or linear  
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metes and bounds   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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township and range   rigid grid-like pattern used to facilitate the dispersal of settlers evenly across farmlands  
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long-lot survey system   divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals  
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Greenbelt   A ring of land maintained as parks, agricultural, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area  
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fallow   plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; land left unseeded; to plow but not seed  
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Enclosure Acts   a series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights to land that was previously considered common.  
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animal domestication   When animals are tamed and used for food and profit.  
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Fertile Crescent   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   The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.  
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First Agricultural Revolution   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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Second Agricultural Revolution   dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm products.  
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