Chapter 12 Vocab Flashcards
What is economy?
A cultural adaption to the environment that enables a group of humans to use land, resources, and labor to meet needs and thrive.
What are food foragers?
Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering plants to eat.
What is pastoralism?
A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals.
What is horticulture?
The cultivation of plants for subsistence through nonintensive use of land and labor.
What is agriculture?
An intensive farming strategy for food production involving permanently cultivated land.
What is intensive agriculture?
Intensive farming practices involving mechanization and mass production of foodstuffs.
What is carrying capacity?
The number of people who can be supported by the resources of the surrounding region.
How is barter defined?
The exchange of goods and services one for the other.
What is a leveling mechanism?
Practices and organizations that reallocate resources among a group to maximize the collective good.
