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Question 1

agribusiness

Answer 1

commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food processing industry

Question 2

agricultural revolution

Answer 2

time when people first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering

Question 3

agriculture

Answer 3

deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for economic gain

Question 4

aquaculture

Answer 4

cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

Question 5

cereal grain

Answer 5

grass that yields grain for food

Question 6

commercial agriculture

Answer 6

agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm

Question 7

crop

Answer 7

any plant gathered from a field as a harvest

Question 8

crop rotation

Answer 8

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

Question 9

dairy farm

Answer 9

form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of dairy products

Question 10

desertification

Answer 10

degradation of land primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting

Question 11

dietary energy consumption

Answer 11

amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories

Question 12

double cropping

Answer 12

harvesting twice a year from the same field

Question 13

fishing

Answer 13

capture of wild fish and other seafood living in the water

Question 14

food security

Answer 14

physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life

Question 15

genetically modified organism(GMO)

Answer 15

living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology

Question 16

grain

Answer 16

seed of a cereal grain

Question 17

green revolution

Answer 17

rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology

Question 18

horitculture

Answer 18

growing of fruits, vegetable, and flowers

Question 19

intensive subsistence agriculture

Answer 19

form of subsistence agriculture characteristics of Asia’s major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land

Question 20

milkshed

Answer 20

area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied

Question 21

mixed crop and livestock farming

Answer 21

commercial farming characterized by integration of crops and livestock; most of the crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans

Question 22

no tillage

Answer 22

farming practice that leaves all the soil undisturbed and the entire residue of the previous year’s harvest left untouched

Question 23

overfishing

Answer 23

capturing fish faster than they can reproduce

Question 24

paddy

Answer 24

Malay word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooding field.

Question 25

pastoral nomadism

Answer 25

form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals

Question 26

plantation

Answer 26

large farm in tropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country

Question 27

prime agricultural land

Answer 27

most productive farmland

Question 28

ranching

Answer 28

form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area

Question 29

ridge tillage

Answer 29

system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation

Question 30

sawah

Answer 30

flooded fields for growing rice

Question 31

shifting cultuvation

Answer 31

form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period

Question 32

slash-and-burn agriculture

Answer 32

name for shifting cultivation because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris

Question 33

subsistence agriculture

Answer 33

agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmed

Question 34

swidden

Answer 34

patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning

Question 35

transhumance

Answer 35

seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures

Question 36

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Answer 36

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