Agriculture Flashcards
Agriculture
Modicatiication o earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing animals for sustenance and economic gain.
Fertile Crescent
shaped area in Southwest Asia where settled farming first began to emerge leading to the rise of cities. (Turkey, Iraq, syria)
Columbian Exchange
global movement of plants, animals/diseases between Afro-Eurasia and America
What are some of the Innovations of the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Improved Transportation, tractors, Herbicides, Pesticides, Fertilizers.
What are some of the effects of Second Agricultural Revolution?
-Increased gap between MDC and LDC’s
- Increased life expectancy (Urban growth)
-Decreased demand for manual labor.
What happened during the Green Revolution?
-Improvements made in agriculture in LDC’s during the mid 20th century.
-Increased use of chemicals.
What were the positives of the Green Revolution?
-lower food prices
-increased food supply.
-Created jobs
-Higher standards of living
Mexico and India
What were the negatives of the Green revolution?
-Toxins cause disease LDC’s (From farmers)
- Seeds and chemicals are very expensive.
-Too expensive for poor farmers
Increase gap between wealthy and small farms.
Sub-Saharan
Subsistence Agriculture
crops or livestock used to maintain the farmer and family. LDC’s
commercial Agriculture
crops and animals for sale, usually with the use of modern tech. MDC’s
Intensive Agriculture
high inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.
Extensive Agriculture
low inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.
What happened during the First Agricultural Revolution?
-Planting and harvesting edible crops
-domestication of wild animals
What happened during the Second Agricultural Revolution?
-crop rotation
-Fertilizers
