Agriculture

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Primary economic activities

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Products closest to the ground

• ranching
• hunting
• fishing

Question 1

Organic agriculture

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The production of crops without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers

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Secondary economic activities

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Activities that take a primary product and manufacture it

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Tertiary economic activities

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Part of the service industry and connecting producers to consumers and facilitating commerce and trade.

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Quaternary economic activity

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Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation or information and capital.

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Quinary economic activity

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Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill

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Plant domestication

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Genetic modification of a plant such that is reproductive success depends on human intervention

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Root crops

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Crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots are cuttings from the plants

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First agricultural Revolution

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Dating back 10000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication

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Animal domestication

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Genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control

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Subsistence Agriculture

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Growing only enough food to survive

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Shifting cultivation

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Cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings are usually abandoned after a few years in favor of newly cleared forestland

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Second agricultural revolution

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Dovetailing with and benefiting from the industrial revolution, the second agricultural revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce

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The Von Thünen model

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A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market.

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The Third Agricultural Revolution

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Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural process has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms

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Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

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Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods

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Rectangular survey system

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(Public land survey) the system was is by the US land office survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The system divides land into series of rectangular parcels.

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Township and range system

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A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the US interior

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Metes and bounds survey

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A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian mountains. A system that relies on description of land ownership and natural features such as streams or tress. US land office survey abandoned the technique for rectangular survey system

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Longlot survey system

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Distinct regional approach to land surveying found in the Canadian maritimes. Where land is divided by narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals

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Primogeniture

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Where all land goes to the oldest son

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Commercial agriculture

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Large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory type labor forces, and the latest technology

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Monoculture

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Dependence on a single agricultural commodity

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Köppen climate classification system

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-wladimir köppen

A system for classifying the world’s climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation

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Climate regions

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Areas with similar climatic characteristics

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Plantation agriculture

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Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop

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Luxury crops

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Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco

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Livestock ranching

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The raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other hyproducts such as leather and wool

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Mediterranean agriculture

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Specialized farming that occurs only in areas where dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails