Unit 5 terms

Question 1

Agricultural Landscapes

Answer 1

The land used for farming

Question 2

Deforestation

Answer 2

extracting resources from the environment for human gain has negative effects

Question 3

Reservoirs

Answer 3

artificial lake where water is stored

Question 4

Aquifers

Answer 4

something that holds water

Question 5

Debt-For-Nature Swap

Answer 5

When a nation takes on another country’s debt in exchange for protection for the environment

Question 5

Biotechnology

Answer 5

designed to improve pants or animals for agriculture

Question 5

Salinization

Answer 5

when soil is made available for farming

Question 5

Precision Agriculture

Answer 5

using data-driven technologies for growing crops

Question 5

Food Insecurity

Answer 5

people who can’t get food they need to live life to the fullest

Question 5

Food Security

Answer 5

Having enough food to survive and flourish

Question 5

Economy of Scale

Answer 5

reducing in the per unit cost of production as the volume of production increases

Question 6

mixed crop and livestock systems

Answer 6

when you have crops and livestock on the same land

Question 6

genetically modified organism (GMO)

Answer 6

when somethings DNA is changed by engineers

Question 6

First Agricultural Revolution

Answer 6

changed from hunting an gathering to farming crops and herding animals

Question 6

Second Agricultural Revolution

Answer 6

when technology improved agricultural production during the 18th and 19th centuries

Question 7

Third (Green) Agricultural Revolution

Answer 7

when the population grew at an exponential growth causing us to find new ways to make more food

Question 8

fair trade

Answer 8

when people are paid fair for their work used in developing country’s

Question 9

market gardening

Answer 9

small scale production sold directly to customers

Question 10

transhumance

Answer 10

seasonal movement of livestock from mountains to lowland pastures

Question 11

Agriculture

Answer 11

the production of foods for people to eat

Question 12

Subsistence Agriculture

Answer 12

only making enough food to sustain the family/community

Question 13

Commercial Agriculture

Answer 13

agriculture that generates a profit on a commercial level

Question 14

Bid-Rent Theory

Answer 14

the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases

Question 15

Intensive Agriculture

Answer 15

farmer use high amounts of labor to farm the crop

Question 16

Monoculture

Answer 16

cultivating one crop on the land

Question 17

Plantation Agriculture

Answer 17

cash crops produced on large land

Question 18

Extensive Agriculture

Answer 18

small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed

Question 19

Domestication

Answer 19

adapting wild plants and animals for human use

Question 20

Infrastructure

Answer 20

the structure needed to sustain agricultural production

Question 21

Dual Agricultural Economy

Answer 21

an economy that has 2 agricultural sectors with different technology’s and patterns of demand

Question 22

Agribusiness

Answer 22

the production and distribution of food

Question 23

Vertical Integration

Answer 23

when 1 company controls all production

Question 24

Tariffs

Answer 24

duties on imports imposed by governments to raise revenue, protect domestic industries, or exert political leverage over another country

Question 25

Cash Crop

Answer 25

something grown for profit rather than to sustain the population