Rural and Urban Land Use Vocab

Question 1

Argrarian

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way of life that depends on farming for sustenance

Question 2

Animal Domestication

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the process of whereby a population of animals through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control

Question 3

Agriculture

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the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals

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Crop Rotation

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the process of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

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Aquaculture

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the name given to all farming and rearing of fish and marine plants that does not fall under the category for fishing

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Collective Farm

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a system of agricultural organization where as farm laborers are not compensated via wages. Rather, the workers receive a share of the farm’s net productivity.

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Double Croppping

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Growing more than 1 crop a year on the same land

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Extractive Industry

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is made up of mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction industries

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Feedlot

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places where livestockare concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to as factory farms

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Green Revolution

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the development higher - yield and fast growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe

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Planned Economy

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economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions about the production and allocation of goods and services

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“Tragedy of the Commons”

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the idea that people will take and use resources to their own advantage, not stopping to think about the future and other people. this is due to greed, new technological advancements, overpopulation, high demand, and poor managment

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Sustainable Yield

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the amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested regularly without reducing the future supply

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Zoning

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a law that limits the permitted use of land and max density of development in a community

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Megalopolis

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formed when urban expansion results in an overlap in development by cities in close proximity to one another, resulting in a network of high-density human settlements

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Infrastructure

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the basic structure of services, installations, and facilities needed to support industrial agricultural and other economic development included and communications along with water power and other public utilities

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Urbanization

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the movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities - a major force in every geographical realm today, also when expanding cities absorb the rural countryside and transforms it into suburbs

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Metropolitan Area

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an urban area consisting of one or more whole country unites, usually containing several urbanized areas or suburbs, that all act together as a coherent economic whole

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Suburb

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residential communities located outside of city centers

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Commercialization

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the transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity

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Commuter Zone

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the outermost zone of the concentric zone model that represents people who choose to live in residential suburbia and take a daily commute into the CBD to work

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Concentric Zone Model

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a model on the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged spatially in a series of rings. the lower class lives closer to the center and the upper class lives farther away from the center

Question 23

Central Business District (CBD)

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is where a large amount of businesses are located. in the concentric zone model, it is located in the center of the city. houses and apartments are less common in the CBD and tend to be more prevalent outside of it.

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Ethnic Neighborhood

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an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background