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| Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. |
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| The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the rasing of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. |
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| Power supplied by people or animals |
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| Active Solar Energy Systems |
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| Solar energy system that collects energy through the use of mechanical devices like photovoltaic cells or flat-plate collectors. |
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| The conscious manipulation of animals by humans to sustain themselves |
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| An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats |
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| A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other micro-organisms for specific purposes |
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| Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste |
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| A nuclear power plant that creates its own fuel from plutonium |
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| Capital Intensive agriculture |
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| Form of technology that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods |
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| A grass yielding grain for food |
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| Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing |
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| A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field |
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| Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
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| Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season |
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| The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil |
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Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
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| A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
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| the conscious manipulation of plant and animal species by humans in order to sustain themselves |
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| Harvesting twice a year from the same field |
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| An agricultural activity involving the raising of livestock, most commonly cows and goats, for dairy products such as cheese, milk, and butter |
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| An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit of land area |
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| Energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago |
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| Form of agriculture in which fruit is harvested |
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| Cultivated land that is allowed to lie idle during the growing season |
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| Area located in the crescant-shaped zone near the south-east Mediterranean coast which was once a lush environment and a hearth of domestication and agricultural activity |
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| First Agricultural Revolution |
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Around ten to twelve thousand years ago, when human began to domesticate plants and animals for food |
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| The splitting of an atomic nucleus to release energy. |
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| Creation of energy by joining the nuclei of two hydrogen atoms to form helium |
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