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Ch 12 Vocab

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show The purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival  
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show An area that has similar climate patterns generally based on its latitude and its location on a coast or continental interior  
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Mediterranean Agriculture   show
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show An agricultural practice that provides crops or livestock to feed one's family and close community using fewer mechanical resources and more people to care for the crops and livestock  
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show An agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for others to purchase  
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Bid-Rent Theory   show
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Central Business District (CBD)   show
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show An agricultural practice in which farmers expend a great deal of effort to produce as much yield as possible from an area of land  
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show A rural settlement pattern in which residents live in close proximity to one another, with farmland and pasture land surrounding the settlement; also known as a nucleated settlement  
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Dispersed Settlement   show
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Linear Settlement   show
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Monocropping   show
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Monoculture   show
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Crop Rotation   show
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show A type of large-scale commercial farming of one particular crop grown for markets often distant from the plantation  
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show A type of farming that produces fruits, vegetables, and flowers and typically serves a specific market or urban area  
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Mixed Crop and Livestock Systems   show
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show An agricultural practice with relatively few inputs and little investment in labor and capital that results in relatively low outputs  
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Shifting Cultivation   show
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show A method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown; often used when clearing the land  
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show A type of agriculture based on people moving their domesticated animals seasonally or as needed to allow the best grazing  
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show The movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations during the summer months and lower elevations during the winter  
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show The deliberate effort to grow plants and raise animals, making plants and animals adapt to human demands and using selective breeding to develop desirable characteristics  
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Foragers   show
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show An area where different groups began to domesticate plants and animals  
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Fertile Crescent   show
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Columbian Exchange   show
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show The shift from foraging for food to farming about 11,000 years ago, marking the beginning of agriculture  
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Second Agricultural Revolution   show
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Enclosure System   show
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Third Agricultural Revolution   show
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show A plant or animal with specific characteristics obtained through the manipulation of its genetic makeup  
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Green Revolution   show
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