Ch. 11 Agriculture. Flashcards
Agriculture
The purpose tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber growing of plants and raising of animals
Intensive
Small piece of land
Extensive
A large piece of land
First agricultural revolution
Neolitic revolution
Cultivation of seeds
10,000 years the first agricultural evolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
Subsistence agriculture
Growing only enough food to survive throughout most of humans history
Shifting cultivation
Subsistence farmers rotate the fields they cultivate in order to allow the soil to replenish
Multicropping
Going two or more crops on the same piece of land during the growing season
Intertillage
Creating rows between crops
Slash and burn
Common way that farmers in these tropical regions prepare a new plot of land for farming is to clear the land
cutting and burning
Pastoralism
Breeding and hurting of animals to produce food clothing for survival
Fallow
Time to rest grow and give it years to rest years of non-growing
Third agricultural revolution
19th century saw the globalization of industrialized agriculture a new technologies
The green revolution
Began in 1940 phase of the third agricultural revolution new strains of hybrid seeds and fertilizers were invented dramatically increase the crop output
Genetically modified organisms GMO’s
Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advance genetic engineering methods
Metes and bounds
Natural features were used to Demarcate irregular parcels of land
