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| System of commercial farming in MDCs |
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| Places where agriculture begins |
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| Deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber |
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| The use of genetically altered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production |
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| Oats, Wheat, Rye, or Barley |
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| Began in the late 15th and 16th century, when products were carried both ways across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
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| The production of food surpluses, with most crops destined for sale to people outside the farmer's family |
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| Process by which fertile land becomes a desert |
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| Dispersed Settlement Pattern |
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| Individual farmhouses lie quite far apart |
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| Fencing or hedging large blocks of land for experiments with new techniques of farming |
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| Gradual destruction of something by physical or chemical action |
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| Farming land far from markets in large units |
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| Extensive Subsistence Agriculture |
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| Involve large areas of land and minimal labor per land unit |
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| By 1970s the collection of new agricultural techniques, which involved two important practices: the use of new higher-yield seeds and the expanded use of fertilizers |
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| Hamlets are small clusters of buildings, or in sighlty larger settlements called villages |
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| The grwing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
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| Dependent on abundane of food. Hunters hunted, skilled at capturing and killing animals; gatherers learned which plants and fruits were edible and nutritious |
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| Modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops |
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| Methods for high-value and perishable crops in the first ring, where land is subdivided into relatively small units |
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| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture |
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| Cultivation of small land plots through great amounts of labor and yield per unit and area and population densities are both high |
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| The channeling of water to fields |
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| Other occupations than farming developed; include priests, traders, and builders |
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| Labor Intensive Agriculture |
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| Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful |
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| The general but logical attempt to explain how an economic activity is related to the land space where goods are produced |
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| Divides land into narrow parcels that extend from rivers, roads, or canals |
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| Mediterranean Agriculture |
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| Type of agriculture that occurs in environments that border season the west coasts of continents, with moisture provided by prevailing sea winds, and moderate winter temperatures |
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| Econoic system that was developed by the British and Dutch, to create colonie which provided a consistent supply of raw materials for manufacturing |
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| Natural features are used to mark irregular parcels of land |
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| Ring of milk production that surrounds a major city |
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| Mixed Crop and Lovestock Farming |
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| A form of agriculture which involves the raising of crops and livestock on the same land spread |
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| Revolution which involved the domestication of crops and animals to create a stable food supply for human societies |
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| Practice of moving frequently from one place to another |
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| Nucleated Settlement Pattern |
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| Settlement patterns with villages located quite close together with relatively small surrounding fields |
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| Crops grown without fertilizers and pesticides |
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| Portions of South American prairies devoted to grazing livestock including sheep and cattle |
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| Form of subsistence agriculture based on heading domesticated animals |
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| System which developed, which gave men the power in family, economics, and government |
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| Farming that specializes in 1 or 2 crops found today in Latin America, Africa and Asia |
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| Part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment |
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| Post-Industrial Societies |
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| Countries where most poeple are no longer employed in industry |
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| All of the land is given to the eldest son |
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| Oftem seen as a subset of the tertiary sector. Includes service jobs concerned with research and development, management and administration, and processing and disseminating information |
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| Rectangular Survey System |
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| Encourages people to disperse evenly across interior farmland so that it is fair to all |
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| Second Agricultural Revolution |
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| Began in Western Europe in the 1600s, which intensified agriculture by promoting higher yields per acre and per farmer |
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| Part of the economy that transforms raw materials into goods |
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| Production of plants through annual planting of seeds |
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| More effectively planting seeds |
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| Shifting Cultivation (Swidden Agriculture) |
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| "Slash and Burn" or Swidden Agriculture, exists primarily in rain forest sonzes of Central and South America, west Africa, Eastern and Central Asia, and much of Southern China and Southeast Asia |
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| Growing of specialized crops because they seem to be the most profitable |
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| Production of only enough food to feed the farmer's family. Mostly seen in LDC's |
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| Attempts to integrate plant and animals production practices that will protect the ecosystem over the long term |
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| Part of the economy that provides services rather than goods |
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| Third Agricultural Revolution |
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| started in mid-29th century and is still going on today and is mainly industrial agriculture |
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| Relies on mostly machinery and got its name because "truck" originally meant "bartering" in English language |
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| New plants are produced by direct cloning from existing plants, such as cutting stems and dividing roots |
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| Assumed that a flat terrain with uniform soil and no significant barriers to transportation to market |
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| Poles and sticks woven tightly together and then covered with mud |
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| Wet rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved as seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth |
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| Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, where the crop is planted in the autumn, survives the winter, and ripens the following summer |
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| Dakota and Montana. where winters are too severe for winter wheat; and the Palouse Region of Washington State |
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