chapter 10 vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cultivate | The act or art of planting |
| Domesticate | To convert or to tame;(animals) |
| Intensive Agriculture | Requires lots of labor or is focused on a small plot of land or both |
| Horticulture | The cultivation of a garden,orchard,or nursery;the cultivation of flowers,fruits,vegetables,or ornamental plants The science and art of cultivating such plants |
| Extensive Agriculture | Requires limited labor input or is spread across large areas of land or both |
| Subsistence Farming | Products are used for personal consumption |
| Commercial Farming | Products are sold for profit |
| Sustainable Farming | Any of a number of environmentally friendly farming methods that preserve an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources |
| Cash Cropping | Selling goods at markets |
| Irrigation | To supply(land) with water by means of artificial canals,ditches;to promote the growth of food crops |
| Pastoralism | The practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society |
| Animal Husbandry | The science of breeding,feeding,feeding,and tending domestic animals,especially farm animals |
| Mechanization | To introduce machinery in order to replace manual labor |
| Desertification | The rapid depletion of plant life and the loss of topsoil at desert boundaries and in semiarid regions,usually caused by a combination of drought and the overexploitation of grasses and other vegetation by people |
| Agribusiness | The business collectively associated with the production,processing,and distribution of agricultural products |
| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock,and the people who tend them,between lowlands and adjacent mountains |
| Conservation | Official supervision of rivers,forests,and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management |
| Crop Rotation | The system of varying successive crops in a definite order on the same ground,especially to avoid depleting the soil and to control weeds,diseases,and pests |
| Slash and Burn Agriculture | Adjective of a method of agriculture used in the tropics,in which forest vegetation is felled and burned,the land is cropped for a few years,then the forest is allowed to reinvade |
| Vegetative Planting | Reproduce plants by either cutting stems or seperating the root system |
| Seed Agriculture | Cultivation of plants by sowing seeds |
| Hybrids | The offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds,varieties,species,or genera |
| Organic Farming | Farming in which no chemicals are used |
| Milkshed | A region producing milk for a specific community;near the city in order to prevent spoilage |
| Shifting Cultivation | Cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning |
| Metes and Bounds | To distribute or apportion by measure;allot;dole(usually followed by out);to make out punishment To measure,parcel |
| Township and Range | A unit of local government,usually a subdivision of a county,found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S and in most canadian provinces. A region or district approximately 6 miles square(93.2 sq. km),containing 36 sections |
| Primogeniture | System in which the oldest son in the family inherits all of the dying parents land |
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