Vocab Due: 2/14

Question 1

When farmers grow foods crops to feed themselves and their families

Answer 1

Subsistence Agriculture

Question 2

When crops are grown for profit only

Answer 2

Commercial Agriculture

Question 3

Agriculture that involves greater inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the space being used

Answer 3

Intensive Farming

Question 4

Agriculture that uses fewer inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used

Answer 4

Extensive farming

Question 4

the distribution of houses, farms, villages, towns, and cities in an area

Answer 4

Settlement Pattern

Question 5

a rural settlement pattern where homes and farm buildings are located close together, with farmland surrounding them

Answer 5

Clustered Settlement

Question 6

a rural settlement patterns characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages

Answer 6

Dispersed Settlement

Question 7

A rural settlement pattern in which farms are clustered along a road with fields behind them

Answer 7

Linear Settlement

Question 8

a study performed to locate, describe, and map the boundaries of a plot of land

Answer 8

Land Survey

Question 9

a rural survey method where land is divided into parcels based on features of the landscape, distance, and direction

Answer 9

metes & bounds

Question 10

a rural survey method where land is divided using lines of latitude and longitude, resulting in a grid patterns

Answer 10

township and range

Question 11

a rural survey method where land was divided into long, narrow lots that ran perpendicular to a river, road, or canal

Answer 11

Long Lot

Question 12

the process by which humans alter the landscape in order to raise crops and livestock for consumption and trade

Answer 12

Agriculture

Question 13

the origin of farming, marked by the first domestication of plants and animals.

Answer 13

First (neolithic) agricultural Revolution (10,000-12,000 years ago Fertile Cresent)

Question 14

raising plants and animals for human use

Answer 14

domestication

Question 15

the global movement of plants and animals between afro-eurasia and the Americas following the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492

Answer 15

the Columbian exchange

Question 16

beginning in the 1700s, the adventures of the industrial revolution were used to increase food supplies and support population growth

Answer 16

second agricultural revolution

Question 17

a set of changes in technology that dramatically increased manufacturing productivity, reshaping how people worked, behaved, and where they lived

Answer 17

the industrial revolution

Question 18

a series of laws enacted by the British gov that enabled landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use that had previously been common land used by peasant farmers

Answer 18

the enclosure acts

Question 19

beginning in the 1960s, it was the third age revolution which involved the development of better and more efficient farming equipment and practices that led to increased production around the world

Answer 19

green revolution

Question 20

the process of breeding together two plants that have desirable characteristics

Answer 20

seed hybridization

Question 21

produced when humans use engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed

Answer 21

GMO (genetically modified organisms, )