Unit 6: rural and urban use vocabulary

Question 1

Agrarian

Answer 1

way of life that depends on farming for sustenance

Question 2

Animal Domestication

Answer 2

the process whereby a population of animals through a process of
selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control

Question 3

Agriculture

Answer 3

the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals

Question 4

Crop Rotation

Answer 4

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

Question 5

Aquaculture

Answer 5

thename given to all farming and rearing of fish and marine plantsthat does not fall under the category of fishing

Question 6

Collective Farm

Answer 6

asystem of agricultural organizationwhere as farms laborers are not
compensated via wages. rather, the workers receive a share of the farm’s net productivity

Question 7

Double Cropping

Answer 7

Growing more than one crop a year on the same land

Question 8

Extractive Industry

Answer 8

is made up of mining, quarrying, dredging, oil and gas extraction
industries

Question 9

Feedlot

Answer 9

Places where livestock are concentrated in very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grainsthat prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to factory farms

Question 10

Green Revolution

Answer 10

the development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe

Question 11

Planned Economy

Answer 11

economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions about the production and allocation of goods and services

Question 12

“Tragedy of the Commons”

Answer 12

theidea that people will take and use resources to their own
advantage, not stopping to think about the future and other people. This is due to greed, new technological advances, overpopulation, high demand, and poor management.

Question 13

Sustainable Yield

Answer 13

the amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested regularly
without reducing the future supply

Question 14

Megalopolis

Answer 14

formed when when urban expansion results in an overlap in development by cities in close proximity to one another, resulting in a network of high-density human settlements

Question 14

Zoning

Answer 14

A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community

Question 14

Infrastructure

Answer 14

Thebasic structure of servicesinstallations and facilities needed to support industrial agricultural and other economic development included are transport and communications along with water power and other public utilities

Question 15

Urbanization

Answer 15

The movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities- a major force in every geographic realm today, also when expanding cities absorb the rural countryside and transforms it into suburbs

Question 15

Suburb

Answer 15

residential communitieslocated outside of city centers

Question 15

Metropolitan Area

Answer 15

an urban area consisting of one or more whole county unites, usually
containing several urbanized areas, or suburbs, that all act together as a coherent economic whole

Question 16

Commercialization

Answer 16

The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to
residents and tourists alikein terms of economic activity

Question 16

Commuter Zone

Answer 16

theoutermost zone of theconcentric zone modelthat represents people who choose to live in residential surburbia and take a daily commute into the CBD to work

Question 17

Concentric Zone Model -

Answer 17

A model on the internal structure of cities in which social groups are
arranged spatially in a series of rings. The lower class lives closer to the center and the upper class lives farther away from the center

Question 18

Central Business District (CBD)

Answer 18

is where a large amount of businesses are located. In the
concentric zone model,it is located in the center of the city. Houses and apartments are less common in the CBD and tend to be more prevalent outside of it.

Question 18

Ethnic Neighborhood

Answer 18

an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic
background