Unit 4 vocab

Question 1

Intensive agriculture

Answer 1

Agriculture that requires a lot of labor

Question 2

Market gardening

Answer 2

Local farmers selling crops to local people

Question 3

Extensive agriculture

Answer 3

Lot of land but not a lot of labor

Question 4

Nomadic herding

Answer 4

Constant movement of livestock to search for food

Question 5

Plantation agriculture

Answer 5

Large from specialized in one or two crops

Question 6

Shifting cultivation

Answer 6

Clearing, farming, abandoning, and repeating.

Question 7

Transhumance

Answer 7

Seasonal heading of animals to high elevations in summer to low in winter

Question 8

Ranching

Answer 8

Raising of livestock

Question 9

Subsistence Agriculture

Answer 9

The production only to feed the farmers family

Question 10

Commercial Agriculture

Answer 10

Growing crops for profit

Question 11

Dairy farming

Answer 11

Raising cows for milk not meat

Question 12

Milk shed

Answer 12

The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied

Question 13

Grain farming

Answer 13

farming for grain

Question 14

Mediterranean Agriculture

Answer 14

Farming only occurring in areas where any summer mediterranean climate prevails

Question 15

Mixed crop and livestock

Answer 15

Crops that are grown to feed their animals

Question 16

Monocropping

Answer 16

Focus on growing one crop and continue growing on the land

Question 17

Monoculture

Answer 17

Plant, harvest, then leave the land alone. only grows one plant

Question 18

Bid rend

Answer 18

The closer you are to a city the higher $$ the land is

Question 19

Mechanized farming

Answer 19

Farming with tec

Question 20

Genetically modified organism

Answer 20

A process changing the DNA of seed to get larger crops.

Question 21

Third agricultural revolution

Answer 21

The richer countries that can afford new equipment

Question 22

yield

Answer 22

what you get out of the land

Question 23

hybridization

Answer 23

mixing the DNA of two to create better something

Question 24

Green Revolution

Answer 24

For less developed countries. (this happens later)

Question 25

Commodity chain

Answer 25

Anything you have is apart of the commodity chain

Question 26

Economics of scale

Answer 26

Cost benefit if your buying in bulk

Question 27

primary sector

Answer 27

anything dealing with raw materials

Question 28

agribusiness

Answer 28

Any business dealing with agriculture

Question 29

transnational corporations

Answer 29

Corresperations that extend pass boundaries

Question 30

supply chain

Answer 30

all of the services to make

Question 31

luxury crop

Answer 31

any crop not needed for human survival

Question 32

fair trade movement

Answer 32

the workers/ land are treated better

Question 33

subsidies

Answer 33

money given from government to farmers