Agriculture

Question 0

Agriculture

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Agribusiness

Answer 1

Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations

Question 2

Cereal grain

Answer 2

A grass yielding grain for food

Question 3

Chaff

Answer 3

Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing

Question 4

Combine

Answer 4

A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field

Question 5

Commercial agriculture

Answer 5

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm

Question 6

Crop

Answer 6

Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season

Question 7

Crop rotation

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Desertification

Answer 8

Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting

Question 9

Double cropping

Answer 9

Harvesting twice a year from the same field

Question 10

Grain

Answer 10

Seed of a cereal grass

Question 11

Green revolution

Answer 11

Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers

Question 12

Horticulture

Answer 12

The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

Question 13

Hull

Answer 13

The outer covering of a seed

Question 14

Intensive subsistence agriculture

Answer 14

A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land

Question 15

Milkshed

Answer 15

The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied

Question 16

Paddy

Answer 16

Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah

Question 17

Pastoral nomadism

Answer 17

A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals

Question 18

Pasture

Answer 18

Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land for grazing

Question 19

Plantation

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Prime agricultural land

Answer 20

The most productive farmland

Question 21

Ranching

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Reaper

Answer 22

A machine that cuts cereal grain standing in the field

Question 23

Ridge tillage

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Sawah

Answer 24

A flooded field for growing rice

Question 25

Shifting cultivation

Answer 25

A 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 26

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Answer 26

Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris

Question 27

Spring wheat

Answer 27

Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer

Question 28

Subsistence agriculture

Answer 28

Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family

Question 29

Sustainable agriculture

Answer 29

Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides

Question 30

Swidden

Answer 30

A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning

Question 31

Thresh

Answer 31

To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it

Question 32

Transhumance

Answer 32

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures

Question 33

Truck farming

Answer 33

Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities

Question 34

Wet rice

Answer 34

Rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth

Question 35

Winnow

Answer 35

To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind

Question 36

Winter wheat

Answer 36

Wheat planted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer