AP Hum Geo Ch11
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use or herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber.
🗑
|
||||
| primary economic activity | show 🗑
|
||||
| secondary economic activity | show 🗑
|
||||
| tertiary economic activity | show 🗑
|
||||
| quaternary economic activity | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management
🗑
|
||||
| show | Genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention.
🗑
|
||||
| root crop | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants.
🗑
|
||||
| First Agricultural Revolution | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade.
🗑
|
||||
| shifting cultivation | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. These clearings are usually abandoned after a few years in favor of newly cleared forestland. Also known as shifting cultivation
🗑
|
||||
| show | Dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second agricultural revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determi
🗑
|
||||
| show | Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
🗑
|
||||
| show | The recently successful development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which led to increased production per unit area and a dramatic narrowing of the gap between population growth and food n
🗑
|
||||
| show | Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods.
🗑
|
||||
| rectangular survey system | show 🗑
|
||||
| township-and-range system | show 🗑
|
||||
| metes and bounds system | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Distinct regional approach to land surveying found in the Canadian Maritimes, part of Quebec, Louisiana, and Texas whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals.
🗑
|
||||
| primogeniture | show 🗑
|
||||
| commercial agriculture | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Dependence of a single agricultural commodity.
🗑
|
||||
| Köppen climatic classification system | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics.
🗑
|
||||
| plantation agriculture | show 🗑
|
||||
| luxury crops | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other byproducts such as leather and wool.
🗑
|
||||
| Mediterranean agriculture | show 🗑
|
||||
| agribusiness | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
KT's AP HG
Popular AP Human Geography sets