Agriculture Flashcards
Market competition is the primary force shaping the production patterns
Commercial economy
Increased agricultural productivity due to improvements in seeds and land management techniques
Green Revolution
Typified by large wheat farms and livestock ranching
Extensive commercial agriculture
And pulling large amounts of capital or neighbor per unit, I Propio age, and high market value per unit of land
Intensive commercial agriculture
Self-sufficiency, low production per acre, and low population densities
Extensive subsistence agriculture
Self-sufficiency, high production per acre, and high population densities
Intensive subsistence agriculture
The maximum rate of the use of a resource that will not impair its ability to be renewed
Maximum sustainability yield
Materials that can be consumed and then restored
Renewable resource
Little exchange of goods and only limited need for market
Subsistence economy
The wandering but controlled movement of livestock
Nomadic herding
Government agencies regulate quantities produced and locational patterns of production
Planned economy
Naturally occurring materials that are perceived to be useful and necessary for the human population
Resource
Materials that are present finite amounts and cannot be replaced
Nonrenewable resources
Abandoning plots wants their fertility has declined
Shifting cultivation
Eventual depletion of a resource in areas of common property due to the absence of collective controls
Tragedy of the commons
The 4 to 16 miles of air above the earth surface
Atmosphere
Major communities of plants and animals occupying extensive areas of earth surface
Biomes
The thin film of air water and earth in which we live
Biosphere
Self contained, self-regulating, and interact and communities adapted to local combinations of climate, topography, Soil, and drainage conditioning
Ecosystems
The totality of things that in any way affect an organism
Environment
The introduction of waste into the atmosphere that cannot be disposed of by natural recycling processes
Environmental pollution