5-6 Flashcards

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MDCs

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MORE DEVELOPED COUNTRY/rely on many machines.

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LDCs

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LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY/primitive hand tools and animal labor.

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Bid-Rent Theory

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explains how the demand for and price of land decreases as its distance from the central business district increases

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Capital Intensive

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that uses mechanical goods, such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities, to produce large amounts of agricultural goods

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Labor Intensive

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farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.

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Factory farming

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capital intensive livestock cooperation in which many animals are kept in close quarters and bred and fed in a controlled environment.

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Aquaculture

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breeding, rearing, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, algae, and other organisms in all types of water environments

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Monoculture

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Growing one crop in a farm system at a given time

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Mono-Cropping

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Growing one crop in a farm system year after year

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Multi-Cropping/
Intercropping

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Growing 2 or more crops at a time in a farm system

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Double cropping

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planting and harvesting a crop two or three times per year on the same piece of land.

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Feedlots

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confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement.

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