Agriculture Vocab

Question 1

Agribusiness

Answer 1

The businesses that provide a vast array of goods and services to support the agricultural industry

Question 2

Agriculture

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The deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food, fiber, feed, and fuel

Question 3

Animal domestication

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To tame/breed an animal making them live in close association to humans(EX. Pets or work animals)

Question 4

Cash crops

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A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower

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Climatic regions

Answer 5

Areas with similar climatic characteristics

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Commercial agriculture

Answer 6

A large-scale production of crops for sale, intended for widespread distribution

Question 7

First agricultural revolution

Answer 7

Started by the cultivation of seed crops

Question 8

Food desert

Answer 8

Areas with limited access to fresh nutritious foods

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GMOs

Answer 9

Genetically modified/engineered crops

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Green revolution

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The third agricultural revolution

Question 11

Koppen climatic classification system

Answer 11

Made by wladimir koppen: for classifying the world’s climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation

Question 12

Livestock ranching

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The raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and by-products

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Long-lot survey

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System that divides the land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers roads or canals

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Luxury crops

Answer 14

Crops that are considered nonessential- cocoa, coffee, tea, tobacco

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Mediterranean agriculture

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

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Metes and bounds system

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A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian mountains; depends on descriptions of land ownership and natural features

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Monoculture

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Dependence on a single agriculture commodity

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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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Plantation agriculture

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The production system when cash crops are grown on large estates

Question 20

Plant domestication

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The process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use(food, work, medicine,clothing, etc.)

Question 21

Primary economic

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Economic activities that involve the extraction of economically valuable products from the earth, including agriculture, ranching, hunting, gathering, fishing, forestry, mining,and quarrying

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Primogeniture

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Where all land is passed down to eldest son

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Quartenary economic activity

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Services concerned with information or the exchange of money or goods

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Quinary economic activity

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Service tied to research or higher education

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Rectangular survey system

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Prevailing survey system that appears as checkerboards across agricultural fields

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Root crops

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Crops that are produced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants

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Second agricultural revolution

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Tools and equipment were modified, methods of soil preparation, fertilization, crop care, and harvesting improved the general organization of agriculture made more efficient

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Secondary economic activity

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Activities that take a primary product and change it into something else

Question 29

Seed crops

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Plants that are reproduced by cultivating seeds

Question 30

Shifting cultivation

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Agriculture where an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned until its fertility is naturally restored

Question 31

Slash and burn agriculture

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Cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning

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Substinence agriculture

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Growing only enough food to survive

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Tertiary economic activity

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Service industries that connect producers to consumers and facilitate commerce and trade or help people meet their needs

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Third agricultural revolution

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Currently in progress; has its principal orientation the the development of GMOs

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Township and range system

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A section is an area 1 square mile on rectangular grid

Question 36

Von thunen model

Answer 36

First effort to analyze the spatial character of economic activity.