ap human agriculture vocab

Question 1

Mass production, domestic or commercial, scale of farming?

Answer 1

purpose of farming

Question 2

How many farmers are working in a country to make food?

Answer 2

Percentage of farmers in the labor force

Question 3

What kind of tools do these farmers use? Are these tools large scale and modern or are labor intensive and require work

Answer 3

Use of machinery

Question 4

How big is the farm?

Answer 4

Size of the farms

Question 5

How are other businesses attached to commercial farming. Equipment companies, fertilizer companies, food processing, packaging.

Answer 5

Relationship to other businesses

Question 6

• Farmers clearing land for planting (slash and burn)
• Types of crops farmers grow over the years

Answer 6

Shifting cultivation

Question 7

Form of substistence agriculture based on herding of domestic animals

Answer 7

Pastrol Nomadism

Question 8

Farmers expanding a large among of effort to produce the maximum yield from a parcel of land. Land is limited in most cases.

Answer 8

Intensice Substance Agriculture

Question 9

Intinsive farming that produces two harvest in one year.

Answer 9

Double cropping

Question 10

The practice of the rotating use of different field from crop to crop each year to avoid exhaugting the soil.

Answer 10

Crop rotation

Question 11

• Mixed crop and livestock farming
• Dairy farming
• Grain farming
• Livestock ranching
• Meditteranean Agriculture
• Commercial gardening and fruit farming
• Plantation farming

Answer 11

Agriculture in Developed countries

Question 12

• Allows for seasonal intisinve work
• Crop rotation system
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Example corn and pigs

Answer 12

Mixed crop and livestock

Question 13

• Located near urban areas
• Located in the milkshed region
• Largest example- New Zeland (5% liquid milk)

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Dairy farming

Question 14

• Use of seeds from various grasses
• Ex- Wheat, barley, corn, rice

Answer 14

Grain farming

Question 15

Commerical grasing of livestock over an extensive area. Mostly for beef in the US.

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Livestock Ranching

Question 16

• Exist primarily in the land that borders the Mediterranean Sea
• *Farmers in chile, California, Southwest Australia
• Located on the western coast of the continent
• Western prevaling winds provide moisture and moderate temperature*

Answer 16

Mediterranean Agricuture

Question 17

Practiced primarily in the United Stated is referred to as “truck farming”

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Commercail gardening and fruit farming

Question 18

• the final form of commercail agriculture
• Practiced primarily in LDCs
• Products are primarily sold in MDCs
• Plantations are owned by companies in MDCs
• Ex- bannanas, cocao, coffee, sugar cane

Answer 18

Plantation Farming

Question 19

Deliberate modification of earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain

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Agriculture

Question 20

The system of commercial farming found in the United States and other relatively developed countires

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Agribusiness

Question 21

human actions are causing land to deteriorate to a desertlike condition

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Desertification

Question 22

The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during 1970s an d1980s

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green revolution

Question 23

which is the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers- and tree crops form the commercial base of the Mediterranean farming

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Horticulture

Question 24

ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling

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Milk Shed

Question 25

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

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Pasture

Question 26

flooded field

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Sawah

Question 27

Production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer’s family

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Subsistence Agriculture

Question 28

The cleared area

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Swidden

Question 29

seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas

Answer 29

TransHumance

Question 30

The reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants

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Vegetative planting

Question 31

The crop is planted in the autumn and develops a strong root system before growth stops for the winter.

Answer 31

Winter Wheat