Agriculture-From "An Intro. to Human Geography" AP Edition: James M. Rubenstein
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| show | Agribusiness
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| Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants, such as cutting stems and dividing roots | show 🗑
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| show | Winter Wheat
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| A large farm that specializes in one or two crops. They are usually located in LDCs but owned by companies headquartered in MDCs. | show 🗑
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| show | Desertification
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| show | Transhumance
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| The commercial grazing of livestock | show 🗑
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| show | Sustainable Agriculture
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| A sustainable agriculture method that protects soil through planting crops in raised rows 4 to 8 inches apart. | show 🗑
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| show | Horticulture
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| The reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization | show 🗑
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| A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals. | show 🗑
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| The practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth. | show 🗑
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| The Austronesian word (spoken in Indonesia) that refers to a flooded field where rice is grown. | show 🗑
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| The type of agriculture that feeds nearly three-fourths of the world's population. This method requires greater energy and resources to produce more food from less land. | show 🗑
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| Grain that is planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer; usually in Montana, the Dakotas and southern Canada. | show 🗑
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| A practice employed in Asia to produce more food on smaller plots of land. | show 🗑
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| show | Milkshed
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| show | Swidden
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| The practice of changing what is grown in fields from year to year to avoid exhausting the soil. | show 🗑
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| Farmers clear land for planting by cutting down vegetation and burning the debris. | show 🗑
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| A type of agriculture in humid low-latitude climate regions where farmers clear land for planting, grow crops until nutrients are depleted and the leave if fallow for many years. | show 🗑
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| show | Truck Farming
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| The production of food primarily for sale off the farm. | show 🗑
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| show | Green Revolution
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