Bolded Terms

Question 1

Primary economic activities

Answer 1

Fishing, ranching, etc. (activities closest to the ground)

Question 2

Secondary economic activities

Answer 2

Taking primary products and changing them (processed foods)

Question 3

Tertiary economic activities

Answer 3

Service industry (salespeople, clerks, etc.)

Question 4

Quaternary economic activities

Answer 4

Information or exchange of money or goods

Question 5

Quinary economic activites

Answer 5

Research or higher education

Question 6

Agriculture

Answer 6

Deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food, feed, and fiber

Question 7

Plant domestication

Answer 7

Breeding plants for domestic/consumable use

Question 8

Root crops

Answer 8

Crops reproduced by cultivating roots or cuttings from plants

Question 9

Seed crops

Answer 9

Plants reproduced by cultivating seeds

Question 10

First agricultural revolution

Answer 10

First domestication of seed plants in the fertile crescent

Question 11

Animal domestication

Answer 11

Domestication of animals for usage of pets, food, etc.

Question 12

Subsistence agriculture

Answer 12

Growing only enough food to sustain themselves and their families; not entering into the cash economy

Question 13

Shifting cultivation

Answer 13

Moving from place to place in search of better land

Question 14

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Answer 14

Burning vegetation in an area so that the ash contributes to soil fertility

Question 15

Second Agricultural Revolution

Answer 15

Advances in agricultural technologies such as fertilizers in the 17th and 18th centuries