Stack #216743 Word Scramble
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What is a primary economic activities? | The resource extractive products from agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering, or mining. |
What is a secondary economic activity? | Those activities that take a primary activity and change it into something else. I.E. manufacture it. |
What is a tertiary economic activity? | A service activity that connects commerce and trade. Producers can find consumers. |
What is quaternary activity? | Economic activities concerned with information flow. |
What is a quinary activity? | Research and higher education activities. |
Plant domestication | The planned selection and improvement of plants that will benefit human and animal consumption. |
Root Crops | Crops reproduced from roots or cuttings |
Seed Crops | Cultivation by plant seeds that required a more complex process of planning |
First Agriculture Revolution | Thought to begin in the region known as the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq. |
Animal Domestication | Animals kept for protection or pets as people became sedentary. Animals were selected for traits that were beneficial for human use. Occurred after plant domestication. |
Subsistence Agriculture | Growing enough food for survival. Land use is characterized by the "commons." |
Shifting Agriculture | Tropical or subtropical agriculture where land is abandoned after becoming infertile. |
Slash and Burn Agriculture | Slashing down vegetation and then a controlled use of fire to burn and quickly return nutrients to the soil. A shifting agriculture process. |
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