Vocab 9*2

Question 1

Township and Range system/ Rectangular survey system

Answer 1

is based on a grid system that creates 1 square mile sections. (US most used)

Question 2

Long-lot Survey System

Answer 2

divides land into narrow sections/parcels stretching back from rivers, major roads or something impactful.

Question 3

Meets and bounds survey systems

Answer 3

uses natural feautures / physical features to demarcate irregular parcels of land. (this was the way land was allocated).

Question 4

Plantation Agriculture

Answer 4

Plantation agriculture is defined as one or two, cash crops, grown on a large sector of land.
Typically takes place in tropical climates
e.g tobacco, cotton, rice e.t.c.

Question 5

Luxury crops

Answer 5

These are crops that are grown for it’s high value not for human survival or susteinance e.g coffee, tea, tobacco, vannila, chocolate.

Question 6

Cash crops

Answer 6

An agricultural crop that is grown for profit. e.g corn, wheat, cotton.

Question 7

Crop rotation

Answer 7

Crop rotation is the practice of alternating crops grown on a specific field in a planned pattern or sequence in successive crop years so that crops of the same species are not grown without interruption on the same field.

Question 8

Agribusiness

Answer 8

Agriculture + Business
The business sector that encompasses farming and farming related commercial activities.

Question 9

Von-thunen model

Answer 9

explains agricultural land use pattern. focuses on the relationship between the cost of land and the cost of transportation.

Question 9

Bid-rent theory

Answer 9

the closer the land is to the central or capital the more competion there would be for the land and the more expensive it is.

Question 10

Aquaculture

Answer 10

The cultivation of aquatic organisms or even aquatic plants.