Unit 5 Vocabulary

Question 1

The variety and variability of plants animals, and microorganisms that are used directly or indirectly for food or agriculture.

Answer 1

Agricultural biodiversity

Question 2

A landscape resulting from the interactions of farming activities and the natural environment.

Answer 2

Agricultural landscape

Question 3

An ecosystem modified for agricultural use.

Answer 3

Agriecosystem

Question 4

Layers of sand, gravel, and rocks that contain and release a usable amount of water.

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Aquifer

Question 5

The variety of organisms living in a location.

Answer 5

Biodiversity

Question 6

The science of altering living organisms, often through genetic manipulation, to create new products for specific purposes, such as crops that resist certain pests.

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Biotechnology

Question 7

Reliable access to safe and nutritious foods that can support a healthy and active lifestyle.

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Food security

Question 8

A farming management concept that uses technology to apply inputs with pinpoint accuracy to specific parts of fields to maximize yields, reduce waste, and preserve the environment.

Answer 8

Precision agriculture

Question 9

An artificial lake used to store water.

Answer 9

Reservoir

Question 10

The process by which water-soluble salts build up in the soil, which limits the ability of crops to absorb water.

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Salinization

Question 11

the shifting population away from cities into suburbs

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Suburbanization

Question 12

The process of carving parts of a hill or mountainside into smaller, growing plots.

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Terracing

Question 13

An agreement between a bank and a peripheral country in which debt is forgiven in exchange for local investment in conservation measures.

Answer 13

Debt-for-nature swap

Question 14

Loss of forest lands.

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Deforestation

Question 15

A form of land degradation that occurs when soil deteriorates into a desert-like condition.

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Desertification

Question 16

A proportionate saving in costs gained by an increase in production

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Economy of scale

Question 17

Areas where residents lack access to healthy, nutritious food because the stores selling them are too far away

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Food Desert

Question 18

The disruption of food intake or eating patterns because of poor access to food

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Food insecurity

Question 19

The large-scale system that includes the production, management, and distribution of agricultural products and equipment

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Agribusiness

Question 20

A network of people, info, processes, and resources that work together to produce, handle, and distribute a commodity or product

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Commodity-chain

Question 21

An economy having two different levels of technology and patterns of demand

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Dual agricultural economy

Question 22

A movement that tries to provide farmers in peripheral areas with a fair price for their products by providing more equitable trading conditions

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Fair trade

Question 23

A form of aid and insurance given by the federal government to certain farmers and agribusinesses.

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Farm subsidy

Question 24

A network of people, information, processes, and resources that work together to handle, produce, and distribute goods around the world.

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Global supply chain

Question 25

The product created by breeding two different varieties of species to enhance the most favorable characteristics.

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Hybrid

Question 26

The purposeful cultivation of plants or animals to produce goods for survival.

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Agriculture

Question 27

An area where different groups began to domesticate plants and animals.

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Agricultural hearth

Question 28

A theory that describes the relationship between land value, commercial location, and transportation, primarily in urban areas, using the bid-rent gradient or scope; used to describe how land costs are determined.

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Bid-rent theory

Question 29

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.

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Central Businesses District (CBD)

Question 30

An area that has similar climate patterns generally based on its latitude and its location on a coast or continental interior.

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Climate region

Question 31

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.

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Clustered settlement

Question 32

An agricultural practice that focuses on producing crops and raising animals for the market for purchase.

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Commercial agriculture

Question 33

The exchange of ideas and goods between the America’s, Europe, and Africa that began when Christopher Colombus landed in the Americas.

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Columbian Exchange

Question 34

A plant or animal with specific characteristics obtained through genetic manipulation

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GMO

Question 35

A movement beginning in the 1950s ad 1960s in which scientists used knowledge of genetics to develop new, high-yield strains of grain crops.

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Green revolution

Question 36

An agricultural practice in which farms expand a great deal of effort to produce as much yield as possible from an area of land.

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Intensive agriculture

Question 37

A rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings form a long line that usually follows a land feature or aligns along a transportation route

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Linear settlement

Question 38

A type of farming that produces fruits, vegetables, and flowers and typically serves a specific market or urban area.

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Market gardening

Question 39

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

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Crop rotation

Question 40

A rural settlement pattern in which houses and buildings are isolated from each other, and all the homes in a settlement are distributed over a relatively large area.

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Dispersed settlement

Question 41

The deliberate effort to grow plants and raise animals, making plants and animals adapt to human demands and using selective breeding to develop desirable characteristics.

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Domestication

Question 42

A system in which communal lands were replaced by farms owned by individuals and the use of land was restricted to the owner or tenants who rented from them.

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Enclosure system

Question 43

An agricultural practice with relatively few inputs and investment in labor that reesults in low ouputs.

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Extensive Agriculture

Question 44

The shift from foraging to farming about 11,000 years ago that marked the beginning of agriculture.

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first agricultural revolution

Question 45

Small nomadic groups which had primarily plant-based diets and ate small fish for protein.

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Foragers

Question 46

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

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Mediterranean agriculture

Question 47

A type of farming in which both crops and livestock are raised for profit.

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Mixed-crop-and-livestock systems

Question 48

The cultivation of one or two crops that are seasonally rotated.

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Monocropping

Question 49

A type of agriculture based on people moving their domesticated animals seasonally or as needed to allow the best grazing.

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Nomadic herding

Question 50

A way of life for people who do not continually live in the same place but more cynically or periodically.

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Pastoral nomadism

Question 51

A type of large-scale commercial farming of one particular crop grown for markets often distant from the plantation

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Plantation agriculture

Question 52

A change in farming practices, marked by new tools and techniques that diffused from Britain and the Low Countries in the early 18th century.

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Second agricultural revolution

Question 53

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 repeating the process.

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Shifting cultivation

Question 54

A method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown; often used when clearing land.

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Slash and burn

Question 55

An agricultural practice that provides crops or livestock to feed one’s family and close community using fewer mechanical resources and more people to care for crops and resources.

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Substicence agriculture

Question 56

A shift to further mechanization in agriculture, through the development of new technology ad advances that began in the early 20th century and continues to present day.

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Third agricultural revolution

Question 57

The movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations in the summer and lower elevations in the winter.

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Transhumance

Question 58

The many systems and facilities that a country needs in order to function properly

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Infrastructure

Question 59

The combining of a company’s ownership of and control over more than one stage of the production process of goods.

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Vertical integration

Question 60

A model that suggests that the perishability of a product and transport osts to the market of each factor into the location of agricultural land use and activity.

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Von Thunen model