Intensive Subsistence Agriculture Flashcards

1
Q

What’s intensive subsistence agriculture

A

Farmers work intensively to subsist on a parcel of land

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2
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where

A

east south southesat asia

densely populated

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3
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why do they have to be intensive

A

they dont own a lot of land-small fragments

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4
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whats wet rice mean?

A

practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded fieldd

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5
Q

wet rice intensive is most cominant where

A

southeast china
southeast asia
east india

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6
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steps to growing rice

A

1-plow the field with an animal
2-flood the field
3 grow seedlings in a nursery on dryland
4-tansplant seedlings to flooded field

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7
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whats a sawah

A

a flooded field

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8
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whats a paddy

A

a flooded field

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9
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difference between”sawah” and

“paddy’

A

sawah=correct

paddy=wet rice (incorrect)

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10
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stepd to collecting rice

A

1- by ahnd with knives
seperate husks from the seeds
2-beat the rice on the ground or trample them to seperate chaff from seeds
3- threshed rice is put in a tray and the lighter chaff is winnowed
4-to consume directly, remove the hull by mortar and pestle
5-commecial rice is whitened and polished (removing nutrients0

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11
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whats a chaff

A

the husk of a rice plant

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12
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whats threshed mea?

A

beat out grain from stalks by trampling it

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13
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what does winnowed mean?

A

blown aways

-like the husk of the plantis blown away, leaving just the seeds

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14
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whats a hull?

A

outer covering of the seed

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15
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how is the hull removed

A

mortar and pestle

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16
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wet rice is best grown on —land

A

flat

17
Q

where is most wet rice farming

A

rive valleys and deltas

18
Q

whats double cropping

A

obtaining two harvests per year

19
Q

what climate is doiuble cropping common

A

warm wintes

20
Q

where is double cropping (countries)

A

south china and taiwan

21
Q

what is usually doubled in doublecropping

A

wet rice and dry crop

22
Q

what does interior india and northeastchina grow

A

crops other than wet rice

wheatmostly-then barley

23
Q

how does china split its land

A

in communist revolution 1949, communist govnt tries to own land called communes-but nowthey are being contracted to farmers for personal use