Rural & Urban Land Vocab

Question 1

Agrarian

Answer 1

Way of life that depends on farming for sustenance

Question 2

Animal Domestication

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The process 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

Question 4

Crop Rotation

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The practice of rotating use of different

Question 5

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 of fishing.

Question 6

Collective Farm

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a system of agricultural organization where as farms laborers are not compensated via wages, rather, the workers receive a share of the farms net productivity.

Question 7

Double Cropping

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Growing more than one crop a year on the same land.

Question 8

Extractive Industry

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made up of mining, quarrying, dredging, oil & gas extraction industries

Question 9

Feedlot Places

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Where livestock are concentrated in very small areas and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them slaughter at a much more than rapid grazing.

Question 10

Green Revolution

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

Question 11

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.

Question 12

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 tech advances overpopulation, high demand and poor management.

Question 13

Sustainable Yield

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

Question 14

Zoning

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A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community

Question 15

Megalopolis

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Formed when Urban expansion results in an overlapping development by cities in close proximity to one another, resulting in a network of high density human settlements

Question 16

Infrastructure

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The basic structure of services installations and facilities needed to support industrial, agricultural and other economic development included are transport and communication along with water power and other public utilities.

Question 17

Urbanization

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

Question 18

Commercialism

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The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive activity. To residents and tourists alike in terms of economic.

Question 19

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 work.

Question 20

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 21

Commuter Zone

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the outermost zone of the concentric Zone Model that represents people who choose to live in residential surburbia and take a daily commute into the CBD work.

Question 22

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

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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.

Question 24

Ethnic Neighborhood

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