Chapter 8 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Scientific revolution in agriculture | the addition of new crops and other technologies over the past 200 years is part of the continuing application of science to agriculture that began in the late eigtheenth century |
Aquaculture | herding or domesticating aquatic animals |
Hunger | deficiency in any or all basic requirements |
Biotechnology | variety of new techniques for modifying organisms and their physiological process for applied purposes |
Deforestation | destruction of the forests |
Exclusive economic zone | controls both mining and fishing rights |
Fishery | area where certain kinds of fishing or fish farming are used to yield certain species |
Isotropic plain | imaginary city market in a perfectly flat plain with absolutely no variations on it |
Sustainable agriculture | food production that can be continued indefinitely and that limits or even reverses environmental degradation |
Downstream activities | the economic activities closer to the consumers |
Value added by manufacturing | the difference between the value of a raw material and the value of a product manufactured from that raw material |
Double cropping | two rice crops can be harvested per year from one field |
Swidden | use tools and animals and more extensive modifications of landscape |
Economies of scale | achieve greater earnings per unit produced only by expanding the number of units produced |
Monoculture | specialized production of one crop |
Polyculture | the raising of a variety of crops |
Commercial agriculture | growing food and raising animal products for sale |
Subsistence agriculture | agricultural to feed oneself and family |
Agricultural inputs | all the factors that go into growing and harvesting a crop |
Green revolution | the effort to increase food production |
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