Textbook And Supplemental Vocabulery

Question 0

Commercial agricultural economy

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All agricultural activity generated for the purposes of selling

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Capital intensive agriculture

Answer 1

Agriculture that used mechanical goods like machinery tools vegicle facilities

Little human labor

Question 2

Extensive agriculture

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An agricultural system characterized by low imputs of labor per unit of land area

Question 3

Intensive cultivation

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Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield

Question 4

Labor intensive agriculture

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Required large levels of manual labor to succeed

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Planned agricultural economy

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Agricultural economy found in communist nations where the government controls both the production and distribution of agriculture

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Subsistence agricultural economy

Answer 6

Any farm economy whee most of the crops are grown for nearly exclusive family of local consumption

Question 7

Animal husbandry

Answer 7

Agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals

Cattle
Horses
Sheep
Goats

Question 8

Biotechnology

Answer 8

Form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants or animals, or to develop other micro organisms for specific purposes

Question 9

Dairying

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An agricultural activity involving raising livestock ( cows and goats) for dairy products like milk cheese butter

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Domestication

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Conscious manipulation of plant and animal species by humans in order to sustain themselves

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Feedlots

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Places where livestock are concentrated Ina very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains tha prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate that’s grazing

Aka factory farms

Question 12

Genetically modified foods

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Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered Ina laboratory for specific purposes like:
Diseased aistance
Increased productivity or nutritional value
Allowing growers greater control, predictability and efficiency

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Mechanization

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In agriculture, replacing human labor with technology or machines

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Pesticides

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Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants but kill pests

Question 15

Salinization

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Process that occurs when soil in arid areas are brought under cultivation through irrigation

In arid climates water evaporates quickly of the ground surface leaving salty residues that render the soil infertile

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Specialty crops

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Crops including peanuts and pineapples that are produced usually in developing countries for export

Question 17

Topsoil loss

Answer 17

Loss pf the top fertile layer of soil through erosion

A tremendous problem in areas with fragile sold, steep slopes or torrential seasonal rains