Chapter 9 Vocabulary- Food and Agriculture
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| Agribusiness | show 🗑
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| Agricultural Revolution | show 🗑
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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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| Cereal grain | show 🗑
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| show | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
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| show | Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
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| show | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
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| show | A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other diary products.
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| show | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid land degradation.
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| show | The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories (calories in USA)
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| Double cropping | show 🗑
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| show | The capture of wild fish and other seafood living in the waters.
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| show | Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
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| show | A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology
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| Grain | show 🗑
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| Green revolution | show 🗑
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| show | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
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| Intensive subsistence agriculture | show 🗑
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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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| No tillage | show 🗑
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| Overfishing | show 🗑
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| show | The Malay word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooded field.
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| Pastoral nomadism | 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 sales, usually to a more developed country.
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| Prime agricultural land | show 🗑
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| show | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
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| Ridge Tillage | show 🗑
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| show | A flooded field for growing rice
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| Shifting cultivation | show 🗑
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| Slash and burn agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
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| show | A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
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| show | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
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| show | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named for the Middle English word truck, meaning "barter" or "exchange of commodities"
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| Undernourishment | show 🗑
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| Wet rice | show 🗑
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| Carrying Capacity | show 🗑
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| Enviornmental Degradation | show 🗑
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