Unit 5: 12.1 -12.2

Question 1

Yield

Answer 1

the output and production from crops

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

the purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival

Question 2

Mediterranean Agriculture

Answer 2

an agricultural practice that consists of growing hardy trees and shrubs and raising sheep and goats

Question 3

Climate Region

Answer 3

an area that has similar climate patterns generally based on its latitude (up and down) and its location on a coast or continental interior

Question 4

Subsistence Agriculture

Answer 4

The process of farming for survival, everyone farms for themselves. Stage one of the demographic transition model

Question 5

Commercial Agriculture

Answer 5

an agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for others to purchase (typically cash crops: crops that the farmer does not consume and is purely for selling)

Question 6

Bid Rent Theory

Answer 6

a theory that describes the relationships between land value, commercial location, and transportation (primarily in urban areas) using a bid-rent gradient, or slope; used to describe how land costs are determined (like the van thunen model)

Question 7

Central Business District

Answer 7

the central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city or town because the accessibility of the location attracts these services

Question 8

Metes and Bounds

Answer 8

(European) This system describes property boundaries in terms of lines drawn in a certain direction for a specific distance from clear points of reference.

Question 9

Township and Range

Answer 9

(American) Rectangular lot shapes. Range = Rectangle

Question 10

Long lot survey system

Answer 10

Longer lots

Question 11

Intensive Agriculture

Answer 11

Intensive= intense
Lot of input and a lot of output

Question 12

Monocropping

Answer 12

the cultivation of one or two crops that are rotated seasonally
Cropping= rotating

Question 13

Monoculture

Answer 13

refers to the agricultural system of planting one crop or raising one type of animal annually.

Question 14

Crop Rotation

Answer 14

the varying of crops from year to year to allow for the restoration of valuable nutrients and the continuing productivity of the soil

Question 15

Plantation Farming

Answer 15

Larger scale commercial farming that takes place in periphery countries. One particular crop grown for the market (cash crops)

Question 16

Market Gardening

Answer 16

Also known as Truck farming is a form of intensive agriculture typically done by migrant workers in order to keep the price down. Producing flowers, fruits, and vegetables.

Question 17

Mixed Crop and Livestock systems

Answer 17

a type of farming in which both crops and livestock are raised for profit. On farm farming: crops and livestock raised on the same farm. In-between farm farming: farmers share resources one growing crops the other raising livestock

Question 18

Clustered (nucleated) settlement

Answer 18

a rural settlement pattern in which residents live in close proximity to one another, with farmland and pasture land surrounding the settlement; also known as a nucleated settlement. (social unity)

Question 19

Dispersed Settlement

Answer 19

A rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings are isolated from one another, and all the homes in a settlement are distributed over a relatively large (independence and self- sufficiency)

Question 20

Linear Settlement

Answer 20

a rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings form in a long line that usually follows a land feature or aligns along a transportation route (follow paths, railroads, or roads).

Question 21

Extensive Agriculture

Answer 21

Less input less output Ex. Plantation Farming
an agricultural practice with relatively few inputs and little investment in labor and capital that results in relatively low outputs

Question 22

Shifting Cultivation

Answer 22

the agricultural practice of growing crops or grazing animals on a piece of land for a year or two, then abandoning that land when the nutrients have been depleted from the soil and moving to a new piece of land where the process is repeated

Question 23

Slash and Burn

Answer 23

the act of “slashing” the trees and brushes down and then after the vegatation is gone it is burned before new seeds are sown

Question 24

Nomadic Herding

Answer 24

a type of agriculture based on people moving their domesticated animals seasonally or as needed to allow the best grazing (shifting cultivation for cattle).

Question 25

Transhumance

Answer 25

the movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations during the summer months and lower elevations during the winter