5-6 Flashcards
MDCs
MORE DEVELOPED COUNTRY/rely on many machines.
LDCs
LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY/primitive hand tools and animal labor.
Bid-Rent Theory
explains how the demand for and price of land decreases as its distance from the central business district increases
Capital Intensive
that uses mechanical goods, such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities, to produce large amounts of agricultural goods
Labor Intensive
farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
Factory farming
capital intensive livestock cooperation in which many animals are kept in close quarters and bred and fed in a controlled environment.
Aquaculture
breeding, rearing, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, algae, and other organisms in all types of water environments
Monoculture
Growing one crop in a farm system at a given time
Mono-Cropping
Growing one crop in a farm system year after year
Multi-Cropping/
Intercropping
Growing 2 or more crops at a time in a farm system
Double cropping
planting and harvesting a crop two or three times per year on the same piece of land.
Feedlots
confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement.