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AP HG Ch 10 Vocab

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show Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually 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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show A grass yielding grain for food.  
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show Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing.  
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combine   show
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commercial agriculture   show
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show Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.  
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crop rotation   show
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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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horticulture   show
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show The outer covering of a seed.  
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intensive subsistence agriculture   show
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milkshed   show
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show Malay word for 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 animals, as well as land used for grazing.  
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plantation   show
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prime agricultural land   show
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ranching   show
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show A machine that cuts grain standing in the field.  
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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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shifting cultivation   show
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show Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.  
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show Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer.  
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subsistence agriculture   show
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show Farming methods that preserve 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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swidden   show
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show To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it.  
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show The seasoned migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures.  
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show Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning batering or the exchange of commodities.  
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vegetative planting   show
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wet rice   show
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winnow   show
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show Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the summer.  
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