Agriculture & Rural Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Agriculture | 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 |
| Plant Domestication | The adaptation of a plant through breeding in captivity to a life intimately associated with and advantageous to humans |
| First Agricultural Revolution | The shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis |
| Hunters & Gatherers | The killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, nuts, and and other plants for sustenance |
| Animal Domestication | The domestication of animals for selling and using as byproducts |
| Carl Sauer | American geographer who studied cultural origins and diffusion, specifically cultural ecology and hearths of agriculture |
| Subsistence Farming | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family |
| Commercial Farming | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
| Agrarian | People or societies that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest |
| Economic Activity | Primary: Products closest to the ground Secondary: Manufacturing of a primary product into something else |
| Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations |
| Shifting Cultivation | The moving of farm fields after several years in search of more productive soil after depleting the nutrients in the original field |
| Slash & Burn Farming | Another name for shifting cultivation so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegitation and burning the debris |
| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures |
| Pastoral Nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals |
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