Terms

Question 0

Agrarian

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Referring to culture of agricultural communities

Question 1

Adaptive Strategies

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Describing society’s system of economic production

Adaptive strategies

• Foraging
• Horticulture
• Agriculture
• Pastoralism
• industrialism

Question 2

Agricultural industrialization

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Promote use of advanced technology for agricultural production

Question 3

Agricultural location model

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Model by Von thuren to determine best location for production of ANY agricultural good

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Biorevolution

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Name for third agricultural revolution which used biotechnology in agriculture

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Intensive area farms

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small area farm/ ranch with high input of labor and high output of production

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Extensive commercial agriculture

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Large area farms with low labor and low output

Either subsistence farming or commercial agriculture

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Cultivation region

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In the area where a crop is produced

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Double cropping

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Intensive practice where more than one crops are produced a year

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Pesticide

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A substance meant to destroy rappel or prevent against pests

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Soil erosion

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Displacement of soil by wind, water, ice or gravity

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Desertification

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Degradation of formerly good land

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Extractive industries

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Industries involved in developing, prospecting, exploring and producing for non regenative natural resources from the eqetg

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Farm crisis

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Financial trouble and foreclosure of family farms across the Midwest US in the 1980s

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Feedlot

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Feeding station used to fatten animals before Slaughter

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Food chain

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Energy flow from one organism to the next. Represents what happens in nature

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Globalized agriculture

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Determination of food trade by multinational corporations

Technology gaps between LDCs and MDCs

Agricultural role from of employing labor force in LDCs

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Forrestry

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Forestry is the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources

Question 18

Farming

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¡Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals.

Question 19

Intercropping

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Practice of cropping strong long plants with short week ones done to increase variety of foods and protect crops

Question 20

Mining

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Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from earth

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Market gardening

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¡market gardening is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants

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Tragedy of the Commons

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¡”That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual.” Aristotle

¡Applied to grazing of individually owned animals on communal land

Question 23

Transhumance

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Form of nomadism and migration from high land to low land

Question 24

Sauer

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Cultural geographer who came up with 11 agricultural regions

Question 25

Staple grain

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Most important and nutritional foods: beans rice and corn