Chapter 8 Vocab

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

Making crops and raising animals to produce goods

Question 2

Example of an agricultural region

Answer 2

Plantation

Question 3

Chopping away grass and trees and letting it dry out. Then burning all the area

Answer 3

Slash-and-burn agriculture/ Swidden agriculture/

Question 4

Intercropping

Answer 4

Places tall plants shelter the small plants

Question 5

Making enough for you and your community to eat.

Answer 5

Subsistence agriculture

Question 6

Paddy rice farming

Answer 6

Type of agriculture

Question 7

Double cropping

Answer 7

Planting and harvesting 2 times a year in the same place

Question 8

Peasants

Answer 8

Farmers who mostly grow wheat products

Question 9

Plantation

Answer 9

Large-scale specialization of one crop for the market

Question 10

Market gardening( truck farming )

Answer 10

Grow no tropical fruits, veggies and vines.

Question 11

Livestock fattening

Answer 11

Raising, fattening and killing pigs and cows

Question 12

Raise imported cows and pigs with purchased feed

Answer 12

Feedlot

Question 13

Suitcase farming

Answer 13

You own and operate the farm but don’t live there

Question 14

“…highly mechanized, absentee-owned, large-scale operations…”

Answer 14

Agribusiness

Question 15

Nomadic livestock herders

Answer 15

Graze cows sheep goats and camels

Question 16

Sedentary cultivation

Answer 16

Abandoning their life to get jobs in the urban areas

Question 17

Ranching

Answer 17

Fixed homes operate as individuals… Raise large-scale for market

Question 18

Urban agriculture

Answer 18

Rural to urban migration

Question 19

Aquaculture

Answer 19

Growing and harvesting aquatic animals

Question 20

Shrimp, oyster, and fish catching

Answer 20

Examples of mariculture