Rural & Urban Land Vocab Flashcards
Agrarian
Way of life that depends on farming for sustenance
Animal Domestication
The process whereby a population of animals through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control
Agriculture
The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising
Crop Rotation
The practice of rotating use of different
Aquaculture
the name given to all farming and rearing of fish and marine plants that does not fall under the category of fishing.
Collective Farm
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.
Double Cropping
Growing more than one crop a year on the same land.
Extractive Industry
made up of mining, quarrying, dredging, oil & gas extraction industries
Feedlot Places
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.
Green Revolution
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.
Planned Economy
economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions about the production and allocation of goods and services.
Tragedy of the Commons
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.
Sustainable Yield
the amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested regularly without reducing the future supply
Zoning
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
Megalopolis
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
Infrastructure
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.
Urbanization
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.
Commercialism
The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive activity. To residents and tourists alike in terms of economic.
Commuter Zone
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.
Concentric Zone Model
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.
Commuter Zone
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.
Concentric Zone Model
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.
Central Business District
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.
Ethnic Neighborhood
an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.
