A.P Human Geography Ch. 10
About this set
Created by:
AppleSauceLad on February 17, 2011
Subjects:
Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.
Order by
45 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Agribusiness | Commecial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in food processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. |
| Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. |
| Cereal grain | A grass yielding grain for food. |
| Combine | A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field. |
| Commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. |
| Crop | Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season. |
| Crop rotation | Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. |
| Desertification | Degradation of land especially in semiarid area, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and free cutting. |
| Double cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field. |
| Grain | Seed of a cereal grass. |
| Green revolution | rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. |
| Pastoral nomadism | Form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. |
| Pasture | Grass grown for feeding grazing animals. |
| Plantation | A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale. |
| Livestock Ranching | A form of agriculture in which livestock graze over an intensive area. |
| Reaper | A machine that cuts grain in a field. |
| Sawah | A flooded field of growing rice. |
| Seed agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds. |
| Slash and burn agriculture | Another name for shifting cultivation, fields are cleared by slashing vegetables and burning debris. |
| Shifting cultivation | People shift actively from one field to another. |
| Subsistence agriculture | Designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family. |
| Swidden | A patch of land cleared for planting through slash and burn. |
| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountain and lowland pastures. |
| Truck farming | Commercial gardening and fruit farming named because truck meaning bartering. |
| Vegetative planting | Reproduction of plants by direct downing from existing plants. |
| Intensive subsistence agriculture | Farmers must expend a relative large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. |
| Sustainable agriculture | Farming method that preserves long-term productivity of land and minimizes pollution. |
| 2nd Agricultural revolution | Dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce. |
| 3rd Agricultural Revolution | Currently in progress, its principal orientation is on the development of genetically modified organisms. Also known as the green revolution |
| Capital intensive agricultural | ... |
| Dairy Farming | the act of business of keeping a farm for producing milk or milk products |
| Green Revolution | the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity |
| Industrial Agricultural | is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops. |
| Milk Shed | The ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling. |
| Von Thunen Model | A model that explains the location of agricultureal activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market |
| Subsidies | grants of money to farmers |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
| Fallow | left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season |
| Derwent Whittlesey | Came up with a map of agricultural regions based on climate |
| Genetically Modified Food | food whose genes have been altered to make them grow bigger or faster or more resistant to pests |
| Grain Farming | The mass planting and harvesting of grain crops, such as wheat, barley, and millet. |
| Intensive Subsistence agriculture | A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. |
| Labor Intensive agriculture | type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful |
| Mediterranean agriculture | An agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean-style climates of Western Europe, California, and portions of Chile and Australia, in which diverse specialty crops such as grapes, avocados, |
| Mixed Crops and Livestock agriculture | Crops are not directly consumed by humans, they are consumed by livestock. |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.