Unit 5 vocab

Question 1

Yield

Answer 1

the amount of an agricultural product produced in an area of cultivation

Question 2

Transhumance

Answer 2

moving flocks into the highlands for summer (cooler) and returning to lowlands for the winter (warmer)

Question 3

Agriculture

Answer 3

modifying the environment to raise plants or animals for food or other uses

Question 4

Climate

Answer 4

the prevailing weather conditions in general over a
long period of time

Question 5

Extensive agriculture

Answer 5

agriculture that uses small amounts of labor on a
large area of land

Question 5

Intensive agriculture

Answer 5

agriculture that uses a lot of labor on a small area of
land

Question 6

Market gardening

Answer 6

small-scale, manual labor agricultural production of
a variety of crops to be sold locally

Question 7

Mediterranean climate

Answer 7

a climate with warm, dry summers and cool, mild
winters mainly found around the Mediterranean Sea

Question 8

Mixed crop/livestock

Answer 8

a farm that raises animals, but also feed for those
animals and makes money selling the animal
products

Question 9

Nomadic herding

Answer 9

raising animals and traveling from place to place
with them to find pasture for their animals

Question 10

Plantation

Answer 10

a usually large commercial farm that specializes in
one or two crops, usually semi-tropical or tropical
areas

Question 11

Ranching

Answer 11

commercial agriculture that allows livestock to
wander a large area to feed using for meat or wool

Question 12

Shifting cultivation

Answer 12

subsistence agriculture form used in tropical areas
that cuts down vegetation for burning which
provides nourishment to the soil - every few years
the farmer must move to a new location as the
nutrients are gone and repeat

Question 13

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Answer 13

subsistence agriculture form used in tropical areas
that cuts down vegetation for burning which
provides nourishment to the soil - every few years
the farmer must move to a new location as the
nutrients are gone and repeat

Question 14

Tropical climate

Answer 14

(Usually around the equator) areas that have an
average temperature above 64° and get substantial
precipitation

Question 15

Base line

Answer 15

in the United States a baseline is the principal east-
west line (i.e., a parallel) upon which all rectangular
surveys in a defined area are based

Question 16

Clustered Settlement

Answer 16

a pattern of rural settlement in which the houses
and farm buildings of each family are situated close
to each others’ fields and surround the settlement.

Question 17

Dispersed Settlement

Answer 17

settlement pattern with people living relatively far
from each other on their farms

Question 18

Linear settlement

Answer 18

a rural land use pattern that creates a long, narrow
settlement around a river, coast, or road that looks
like a line

Question 19

Long Lot

Answer 19

a rural land use pattern that divides land into long,
narrow lined up along a waterway or road

Question 20

Metes and bounds

Answer 20

a system of describing parcels of land where the
metes are the lines (including angle and distance
that surround the property) and bound describes
features such as a river or public road

Question 21

Surveying

Answer 21

examining and measuring the surface of the Earth
for planning, preparing to build, or mapping

Question 21

Township and range

Answer 21

a system of dividing large parcels of where the
townships describe how far north or south from the
center point