5.1 Flashcards

1
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The process by which humans alter the landscape in order to raise crops and livestock for the consumption and trade

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Agriculture

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2
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The long-term weather patterns in a region

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Climate

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3
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Grow enough food or raise enough livestock to meet the immediate needs of a farmer or their family

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Subsistence Agriculture

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4
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Grow enough crops or raise enough livestock to sell for profit

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Commercial Agriculture

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5
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Practice where farmers or ranchers use large amounts of inputs, such as energy, fertilizer, labor or machines to maximize yields

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Intensive Agriculture

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6
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Practices using fewer amounts of the inputs and typically result in less yields

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Extensive Agriculture

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7
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Heavy investments in labor and capital resulting in high yields and profits

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Intensive Commercial Agriculture

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8
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Commonly labor and animal intensive to meet immediate needs through lots of effort

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Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

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9
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Few inputs and less effort to meet immediate needs

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Extensive Subsistent Agriculture

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10
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Low amounts of inputs but has the goal of selling the product for profit

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Extensive Commercial Agriculture

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11
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Money invested in land, equipment, and machines

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Capital

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12
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Subsistent extensive agriculture practiced in arid climates, move with herds

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Pastoral Nomadism

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13
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Subsistent extensive farming where when the current soil loses fertility, farmers move to another field

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Shifting Cultivation

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14
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Large commercial farm specializing in one crop

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Plantation

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15
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Intensive commercial integrated system that demonstrates an interdependence between crops and animals

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Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming

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16
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In regions too dry for mixed crop agriculture, farmers often use wheat

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Grain Farming

17
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Typical fruits and vegetables grown in mass for profits. AKA truck farming because products were traditionally driven to local markets

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Commercial Gardening

18
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When fruits and vegetables are grown near and urban market and sold to local suppliers, stores and restaurants

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Market Gardening

19
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Local farms of cows

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Dairy Farming

20
Q

The geographic distance that milk is delivered

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Milk Shed

21
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Practiced in hot, dry, summer-like regions, with common foods like figs and olives

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Mediterranean Agriculture

22
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Seasonal herding of animals from higher to lower elevations

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Transhumance

23
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Commercial grazing of animals confined to a specific area

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Livestock Ranching