APHG Unit 6 Agriculture Barrons & Rubenstein
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| Agribusiness | show 🗑
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| Agriculture | show 🗑
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| Animal husbandry | show 🗑
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| Biotechnology | show 🗑
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| Capital-intensive | show 🗑
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| show | All agricultural activity generated for the purpose of selling, not necessarily for local consumption.
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| Dairying | show 🗑
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| Domestication | show 🗑
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| show | An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area.
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| Feedlots | show 🗑
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| Fertile Crescent | show 🗑
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| Genetically modified foods | show 🗑
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| show | The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe.
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| show | The killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance.
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield.
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| show | intensive agriculture Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful.
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| Livestock ranching | show 🗑
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| show | In agriculture, the replacement of human labor with technol¬ogy or machines.
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| Mediterranean agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal hus¬bandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.
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| show | Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants, but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals.
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| show | An agricultural economy found in commu¬nist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution.
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| show | A large, frequently foreign-owned piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export crop.
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| Salinization | show 🗑
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| show | The use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost. Plots are then abandoned, and farmers move on to new sites.
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| show | System of cultivation that usually exists in trop¬ical areas where vegetation is cut close to the ground and then ignited. The fire introduces nutrients into the soil, thereby making it productive for a rela¬tively short period of time.
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| show | Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples, which are produced, usually in developing countries, for export.
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| Subsistence agricultural economy | show 🗑
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| Swidden | show 🗑
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| Topsoil loss | show 🗑
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| Transhumance | show 🗑
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| Urban sprawl | show 🗑
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| von Thunen model | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial agriculture characterized by inte¬gration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usu¬ally through ownership by large corporations.
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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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| Cereal grain | show 🗑
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| Chaff | show 🗑
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| Combine | show 🗑
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| show | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
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| show | Grain or fruit 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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| Desertification | show 🗑
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| Double cropping | show 🗑
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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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| Hull | show 🗑
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| Intensive Subsistence agriculture | show 🗑
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| Milkshed | show 🗑
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| show | wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah.
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| show | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
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| show | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing ani-mals, as well as land used for grazing.
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| show | A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.
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| Prime agricultural land | show 🗑
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| Ranching | show 🗑
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| Reaper | show 🗑
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| Ridge tillage | show 🗑
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| show | A flooded field for growing rice
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| Seed agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the veg¬etation and burning the debris.
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| Spring wheat | 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 | Farming methods that preselTe long¬term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in¬puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
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| Swiddem | show 🗑
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| Thresh | show 🗑
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| To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it. | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial gardening and fruit farming.
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| show | Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants.
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| show | Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth.
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| Winnow | show 🗑
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| Winter Wheat | show 🗑
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