9.3 terms

Question 1

Wet rice

Answer 1

refers to rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved as seedlings to a flooded field to grow.

Question 2

Intensive subsitence agriculture

Answer 2

intensive labor farming on small plots to grow food primarily for the farmers family,

Question 3

Double cropping

Answer 3

land more intensively used in parts of asia by obtaining two harvests per year from one feild

Question 4

Crop rotation

Answer 4

the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

Question 5

Swidden

Answer 5

Land cleared for cultivation by slashing and burning vegetation

Question 6

Grazing

Answer 6

livestock feeding on natural vegetation

Question 7

Migration

Answer 7

Seasonal movement of people and animals in serch of pasture and water

Question 8

Steppe

Answer 8

A type of dry grassland commonly used by nomadic herders

Question 9

Crop

Answer 9

The main product grown on a plantation

Question 10

Cultivation

Answer 10

preparing and maintaing land for growing crops

Question 11

Estate

Answer 11

a large area of land used for plantation of crops

Question 12

milkshed

Answer 12

the ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without it spoiling

Question 13

Horticulture

Answer 13

the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

Question 14

Intensive agriculture

Answer 14

farming method that uses high inputs of labor

Question 15

Extensive agriculture

Answer 15

farming method that involves large areas of land, with low inputs of labor