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AP Human Geography Chapter 10 Vocab

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Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.

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.

A grass yielding grain for food.

Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing.

A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans gram while moving over a field.

commercial agriculture

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.

Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.

desertification

the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert

double cropping

Harvesting twice a year from the same field.

Seed of a cereal grass.

green revolution

Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.

The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

The outer covering of a seed.

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.