Unit 5 - 1 Flashcards

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The process by which humans alter the landscape in order to raise, livestock and crops for consumption and trade

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Agriculture

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Long-term weather patterns in a region

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Climate

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3
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Main goal is to grow enough food/livestock to meet the immediate needs of the farmer and their family

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Subsistence agriculture

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4
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Primary goal is to grow enough crops/livestock to sell for profit

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Commercial agriculture

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5
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Farmers use large amount of inputs to maximize yields

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Intensive

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Few inputs to get less yields

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Extensive

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7
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Money invested in land equipment and machines

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Capital

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Subsistence, extensive agriculture practiced in arid and semiarid climate

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Pastoral nomadism

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Farmers grow crops on a piece of land for a year or two, and when the soil loses fertility, they move to another field

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Shifting cultivation

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10
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A large commercial farm that specializes in one crop

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Plantation

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Intensive commercial integrated system that demonstrates an interdependence between crops and animals

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Mixed crops and livestock farming

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12
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In regions to drive for mixed crop agriculture, farmers often raise wheat

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Grain farming

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13
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Typical fruits and vegetables grown in the United States, include lettuce, broccoli, apples, oranges, and tomatoes. Typically found in California, Arizona, and states of the southeast.

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Commercial gardening

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14
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Dairies were local farms that supplied products to customers in a small geographic area

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Dairy farming

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15
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The geographic distance that milk is delivered

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Milkshed

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16
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Practiced in regions with hot dry summers, mild winters, narrow valleys, and often some irrigation

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Mediterranean agriculture

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17
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The seasonal hurting of animals from higher elevations in the summer to lower elevations and valleys in the winter

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Transhumance

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18
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Commercial grazing of animals confined to a specific space

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Livestock ranching

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The settlements had groups of homes located near each other in a village and fostered a strong sense of place and I’ll finish shared services such as schools

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Clustered (nucleated) settlement

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Patterns in which farmers lived in homes spread throughout the country side

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Dispersed settlement

21
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Buildings in human activities are organized, close to a body of water or along a transportation route

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Linear settlements

22
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The way plot boundaries were described

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Metes and bounds

23
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Created rectangular plots of consistent size

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Public land, survey, or township and range system

24
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Farms were long, thin sections of land that ran perpendicular to a river

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French long lot system

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Origin of farming, first mark by the domestication of plants and animals. Much of the farming that took place during this time with subsistence farming, begin in these 5 Hz southwest Asia east Asia south, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
The first neolithic agricultural revolution
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Lived in small mobile groups, who could move easily in search of food
Hunters and gathers
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Hunters in Central Asia were the first to do this. They raise dogs and horses for protection, work transportation, or as a food source.
Animal domestication
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Growing crops probably began after domestication of animals people first use vegetative planning or part of the stems or roots of existing plants to grow others
Plant domestication
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Southwest Asia south east Asia south Asia east, Asia, sub-Saharan, Africa, and Mesoamerica
Major agricultural hearths
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Crops and animals were domesticated in multiple regions with seemingly no interaction among the people
Independent invention
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Global movement of plants and animals between Afro Eurasia and the Americas
Columbian exchange exchange
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Began in the 1700s use the advantage of the industrial revolution to increase food supplies and support population growth agriculture benefited from mechanization and improved knowledge of fertilizers souls and selective breeding practices for plants and animals
Second agricultural revolution
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Series of laws enacted by the British government that enabled land owners to purchase it in close land for their own Use
Enclosure movement
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Better diet longer life expectancy and increase population
Second revolution advances
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The technique of planting different crops in a specific sequence of the same plot of land to restore, nutrients back into the soil
Crop rotation
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Process of applying controlled amounts of water to crops using canals, pipe, sprinkler system, or other human made devices rather than to just rely on rainfall
Irrigation
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Decrease a number for monors more people living in urban than rural areas
Second revolution impact on demographics
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Born out of science, research and technology and continues today expanded mechanization of farming, develop you cook global agricultural system, and you scientific and information technology to further previous advances in agricultural production
Third agricultural revolution
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The advantage in plant biology of the mid-20th century
Green revolution
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Laid the foundation for scientifically, increasing the food supply to meet the demands of an ever increasing global population, higher yield more disease resistance and faster, growing varieties of green
Impact of Norman Borlaug
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Process of breathing to plants that have desirable characteristics to produce a single seat with both characteristics
Hybridization
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Assisted in production and challenge traditional labor, intensive farming, practices that it been in place for 1000 years
Machineries impact on green rev
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The process by which humans use engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed
GMO
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Increase yields reduced hunger, lower, death rates, and growing populations
Positive impacts of the green revolution
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Environmental damage is gender any quality’s economic obstacles and failures in Africa
Negative impacts of the green revolution
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Men on the land, and had access to financial resources, and were educated on new emented of farming, while women were often excluded from these opportunities
Green revolution impact on gender roles
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Diversity of climate in soil’s maid rite fertilizers to be very expensive. Harsh environmental conditions lacks proper transportation infrastructure main crops were not always included in research proceed hybridization programs.
Why didn’t the GR help Africa?