Agriculture

Question 0

Biotechnology

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Ever say science involves altering the genetic strands of agricultural products to increase productivity, biotechnologies develop mainly and science laboratories and then tested on farm fields around the world, where it has been, for the most part, extremely successful.

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

The raising of animals or the growing of crops on tended land to obtain food for primary consumption by farmers family or for sale off the farm.

Question 2

Commercial farming

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The farming of products for sale off the farm, commercial farming is usually a big business in developed countries and requires the use of heavy machinery.

Question 3

Continentality

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Describes the fact that areas proximity to a body of water affects its temperature (E.g., because oceans have a moderating influence on temperature, areas near oceans experience less extreme temperature variations).

Question 4

creative destruction

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Moving what nature originally produced in a location to grow what is desired.

Question 5

Crop rotation

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The planting of different crops each year to replenish the soil nutrients that were lost to the previous crop.

Question 6

double – cropping

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Growing of two crops per year to double agricultural output.

Question 7

Environmental modification

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The introduction of man-made chemicals and practices that,at times, have drastic effects on native soil and vegetation.

Question 8

Farm crisis

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Occurs when farmers are too productive, causing a surplus of props and, therefore, lowering prices and producing less revenue for the farmers.

Question 9

Feedlots

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Farms that specialize in cattle or hogs and may have thousands of head of livestock, feedlots can create large amounts of waste runoff, air pollution, and groundwater contamination.

Question 10

First agricultural revolution

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The slow change from non-agriculturally – based societies to more agriculturally – based ones to the gradual understanding of seeds, watering, and plant care.

Question 11

Food chain

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After harvesting, commercial green is sent to the market area, usually in semi trailers, where it is sold to a manufacturer makes a product with the grain, such as bread. The product is then sold to a wholesaler, who sells it to a grocery store, where individual customers can purchase it.

Question 12

Grain farming

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The mass planting and harvesting of grain crops, such as wheat, barley, and millet.

Question 13

Intertillage

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The manual clearing of rows in the field through the use of hoes, rakes, and other manual equipment.

Question 14

Long lots

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A system of farming were lots up to a half mile or more extend back from the river, which farmers use as their primary means of hauling the agricultural products to the market.

Question 15

Mixed livestock with crop production

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A type of farming where cows raised on farms are feed with the same crops grown on the same farm.

Question 16

Planned Economy (government-controlled economy)

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An economy in which the government dictates the quantity and the type of agricultural products that farmers can produce.

Question 17

Primary economic activities

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Subsistence farming based on little mechanization. That is currently preformed by aboriginal tribes in Australia.

Question 18

Plantation agriculture

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Often occurring in less developed countries, plantation agriculture involves the cultivation of one crop to be sold in more develop countries (e.g., coffee plantations in Costa Rica).

Question 19

Quartiary economic industries

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Activities that produce nothing one can physically touch but are important in society (e.g., selling Internet time or providing satellite technologies, such as cell phone usage).

Question 20

Quinary sectors

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Usually involving only about 10-15 percent of the workforce in an economy, these sectors employ the people who make decisions concerning the trade of commodities at the governmental and business executive levels.

Question 21

Sauer, Carl

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Professor of geography at the university of California- Berkeley who started the field of cultural ecology, and began the hearths of seed agriculture and vegetative planting, Carl Sauer was one of the most vehement critics of the philosophy of environmental determinism. Instead, he believed that humans had the power to over come their environment and weren’t simply a product of them.

Question 22

Second agricultural revolution

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Coinciding with the industrial revolution, the second agricultural revolution used the increase of technology from the industrial revolution as a means to increase farm productivity. This revolution started exponential population increase.

Question 23

Secondary economic activities

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Industrial activities in which factories take raw materials, such as natural resources, and produce some type of product for either trad ear sale. Many people in the United States are still employed in secondary economic activities.

Question 24

Seed agriculture

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The taking of seeds from existing plants and planting them to produce new plants.

Question 25

Shifting cultivation

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The moving of farm fields after several years in search of more productive soil after depleting the nutrients in the original field.