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Ch 12 Vocab

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Agriculture   show
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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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show An agricultural practice that consists of growing hardy trees and shrubs and raising sheep and goats  
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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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Commercial Agriculture   show
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Bid-Rent Theory   show
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show The central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city or town because the accessibility of the location attracts these services  
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Intensive Agriculture   show
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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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show A rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings form in a long line that usually follows a land feature or aligns along a transportation route  
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Monocropping   show
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Monoculture   show
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show The varying of crops from year to year to allow for the restoration of valuable nutrients and the continuing productivity of the soil  
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Plantation Agriculture   show
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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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show A type of farming in which both crops and livestock are raised for profit  
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Extensive Agriculture   show
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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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Agricultural Hearth   show
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Fertile Crescent   show
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show The exchange of goods and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that began after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492  
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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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show A change in farming practices, marked by new tools and techniques, that diffused from Britain and the Low Countries starting in the early 18th century  
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show System in which communal lands were replaced by farms owned by individuals, and use of the land was restricted to the owner or tenants who rented the land from the other  
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Third Agricultural Revolution   show
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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)   show
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show Movement beginning in the 1950s and 1960s in which scientists used knowledge of genetics to develop new high-yield strains of grain crops  
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