vocabulary 6 Flashcards
What is Agrarian?
A way of life that depends on farming for sustenance.
What is Animal Domestication?
The process whereby a population of animals becomes accustomed to human provision and control.
What is Agriculture?
The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals.
What is Crop Rotation?
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
What is Aquaculture?
The farming and rearing of fish and marine plants that does not fall under the category of fishing.
What is a Collective Farm?
A system of agricultural organization where farm laborers are compensated with a share of the farm’s net productivity.
What is Double Cropping?
Growing more than one crop a year on the same land.
What is Extractive Industry?
Industries made up of mining, quarrying, dredging, oil, and gas extraction.
What is a Feedlot?
Places where livestock are concentrated in small areas and raised on hormones and grains for rapid slaughter.
What is the Green Revolution?
The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through technology, pesticides, and fertilizers to alleviate food supply issues.
What is a Planned Economy?
An economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions about production and allocation of goods and services.
What is the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’?
The idea that people will use resources for their own advantage without considering the future or others, due to greed and poor management.
What is Sustainable Yield?
The amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested regularly without reducing future supply.
What is Zoning?
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
What is a Megalopolis?
Formed when urban expansion results in overlapping development by cities in close proximity.
What is Infrastructure?
The basic structure of services and facilities needed to support industrial agriculture and economic development.
What is Urbanization?
The movement and clustering of people in towns and cities, transforming rural areas into suburbs.
What is a Metropolitan Area?
An urban area consisting of one or more whole county units, containing several urbanized areas or suburbs.
What is a Suburb?
Residential communities located outside of city centers.
What is Commercialization?
The transformation of an area of a city into one attractive for residents and tourists in terms of economic activity.
What is a Commuter Zone?
The outermost zone of the concentric zone model representing people who live in suburbs and commute to work.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
A model of city structure where social groups are arranged spatially in rings, with lower classes closer to the center.
What is a Central Business District (CBD)?
The area where a large amount of businesses are located, typically at the center of the city.
What is an Ethnic Neighborhood?
An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.
