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Ap Geo
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Geography
9th Grade
02/11/2013

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Term
Adaptive strategies
Definition

 

more specific then directional strategies and provide the primary methods for achieving the vision (adapting to the environment)

- these stratagies determine the scope of the organization and specify how the organization will expand scope, reduce scope or maintain scope

Term
Agrarian
Definition

People or societies that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest ext.

-Where agrarian people and societies are located is not generally near cities ext. but these types of people are essential to the way that we live and our ability to live in cities.

Term
Agribusiness
Definition

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

            - It influences how things are grown and what people eat

Term
Agricultural Industrialization
Definition

The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors ext.

            - Makes it a lot faster for farmers to yield crop

Term
Agricultural landscape
Definition

The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields.

            - Effects how much yield one gets from their plants.

Term
Agricultural location model
Definition
four generalized types of economic and agricultural activities, categorized according to relative economic yield per unit area and perishability or difficulty of delivering products to market
Term
Agricultural Origins
Definition

Through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for there own use. Carl Sauer points out vegetative planting and seed agriculture as the original forms. He also points out that vegetative planting likely was originated in SE Asia and seed agriculture originated in W. India, N. China and Ethiopia.

            -Without the development of agriculture we would still have a relatively small and likely uneducated population

Term
Agriculture
Definition

The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain.

            -It has influenced the growth of areas and human society

Term
Animal Domestication
Definition

Domestication of animals for selling or using byproducts.

-Helped us obtain meat with out having to go out and kill our food right before dinner.

Term
Aquaculture
Definition

The cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food

            -Allowed us to use the sea and its abundant sources of food for our benefit

Term
Biorevolution
Definition

The revolution of biotechnology and the use of it in societies.

            - See reasoning for below term

Term
Biotechnology
Definition

Using living organisms in a useful way to produce commercial products like pest resistant crops.

-Has helped the farmers grow a more bountiful harvest through the using of pesticides ext.

Term
Cereal Grains/Staple Grains
Definition

A "staple" grain is a type of edible grain, usually wheat or corn, on which a group of people are dependent for survival and/or nourishment and provides the essential sustenance for those people eating it.

 

Grains, also called cereal or cereal grains, are the seeds of grasses (gramineae).

Term
Collective farm
Definition
A large farm owned by many peasants and run by the government
Term
Commercial Agriculture (intensive, extensive):
Definition

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

            -Allowed people to move away from farms- fueled industrial revolution

Term
Commodity Chains
Definition
the stages it takes for a company to produce and sell its goods or services, i.e. classic capitalist commodity chain: money-> commodity production-> sale.
Term
Core/Periphery
Definition
The areas in the world that include MDCs are called the core and the area of the world that contains the LDCs is referred to as the periphery
Term
Crop Rotation
Definition

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

            -Takes up large areas of land but keeps land usable for future generations

Term
Cultivation regions:
Definition

Regions were there is agricultural activity

- Areas with agricultural activity generally are not a place were a big city would be located- affects locations of different areas.

Term
Dairying
Definition

The “farming” and sale/distribution of milk and milk products.

-Gets us calcium, allows for people to move to the city because there is a way of getting milk or milk products.

Term
Debt-for-nature swap
Definition
When agencies such as the World Bank make a deal with third world countries that they will cancel their debt if the country will set aside a certain amount of their natural resources.
Term
Diffusion
Definition

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

            -Influences the development of some regions faster than others

 

Term
Double Cropping
Definition

Harvesting twice a year from the same land

            -Can cause agricultural exhaustion making people move away from the land

Term

Economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary):

Definition

Primary: Involves jobs like lumber and mining

            Secondary: Manufacturing products and assembling raw materials

Tertiary: The service sector that provides us with transportation, communication and utilities

            Quaternary:economic activities concerned with research, information gathering, and administration

            Quinary:the most advanced form of quaternary activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations or high-level scientific research

                        - All of these jobs are necessary in the world

Term
Environmental Modifications (pesticides, soil erosion, desertification)
Definition

The destruction of the environment for the purpose of farming. (Using pesticides that drain in to the water and soil and pollute them overuse of land causing the desert like conditions of desertification (dust bowl).

            -Doing harm to the environment through pesticides and causing desertification have horrible long term effect on humans and their future.

Term
Extensive subsistence agriculture (shifting cultivation, nomadic herding/pastoralism)
Definition

Shifting Cultivation: Use many fields for crop growing each field is used for a couple years then left fallow for a relatively long time.

            Nomadic herding/pastorilism:Based on herding domesticated animals

- Effect the way that some in the world to live and were they fall in demographic transition

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