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| (Agriculture) Part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment. |
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| (Industry) Part of the econonmy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods. |
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| (Services) Part of the economy that involves services rather than goods. |
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| Post Industrial Societies |
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| Countries where most people are no longer employed in industry. |
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| Includes service jobs concerned with research and developement, management and administration, and processing and disseminating information. |
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| Deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber. |
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| Hunters gain skills in capturing and killing animals while gatherers learned which plants and fruits were edible. |
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| The ability to settle was based almost entirely on successful cultivation of crops and domestication of animals. |
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| Farming practices that diffused and happened independently in different places over a large span of time. |
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| Men holding power in the family, economy, and the government. (SEXIST) |
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| New plants are produced by direct cloning from existing plants. |
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| Production of plants through annual planting of seeds. |
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| Channeling of water to fields. |
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| Products carried both ways across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
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| Second Agricultural Revolution |
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| Intensified agriculture by promoting higher yields per acre and per farmer. |
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| Fencing or hedging large blocks of land. |
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| Controls the nutrients in the soil. |
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| A new machine invented by Jethro Tull. |
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| The production of only enough food to feed the farmers family, w/ no surpluses to sell. |
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| System of commercial farming found in more developed countries. |
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| Production of food surpluses, w/ most crops destined for sale to people outside the farmer's family. |
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| Type of agriculture that yields a large amount of output per acre through concentrated farming, but only provides a subsistence living for farmers. |
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| Wet rice is planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved as seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth. |
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| Labor Intensive Agriculture |
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| Employs large amount of people and recquire reletively little capital to produce food. |
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| Extensive type of subsistence farming that consumes a large percentage of arable land on the planet (A.K.A. Slash-and-burn) |
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| Growing of various types of crops. |
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| Alternative to sedentary farming and is characterized by following the herds. |
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| Practice of moving frequently from one place to another. |
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| Extensive Subsistence Agriculture |
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| Shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism. |
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| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture |
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| Cultivation of small land plots through great amounts of labor and yields, and area population densities are high. |
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| Oats, wheat, rye and barley |
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| A crop is planted in the autumn, survives the winter, and ripens the following summer. |
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| When winters are too severe for the crop(s) |
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| The praries of North America. |
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| The growing of fruits, veggies, and flowers. |
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| Growing veggies for the market. |
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| A large family that specializes in one or two crops. |
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| Crops that are raised for export to high- consumption developed countries. |
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| An agricultural production system normally characterized by high capital, labour, heavy use of pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. |
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| A model that notes the difference between land space and where goods are produce in their relation to the markets. |
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| Logical attempt to explain how an economy activity is related to the land space where goods are produced. |
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| Dispersed Settlement Pattern |
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| Individual farm houses lying quite far apart. |
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| Nucleated Settlement Pattern |
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| Villages that are located quite close together with relatively small surrounding fields. |
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| Small clusters of buildings. |
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| Slightly larger settlements compared to hamlets. |
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| Poles and sticks woven tightly together and then covered with mud. |
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| When all land is transferred to the oldest son. (Property Distribution) |
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| Rectangular Survey System |
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| Dividing land into straight lines (grid like). |
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| Natural features are used to mark irregular parcels of land. |
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| Divides land into narrow parcels. |
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| Belief in the benefits of profitable trading. |
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| Current stage of commercial agriculture. |
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| Growing of specialized crops because they seem to be the most profitable. |
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| Third Agricultural Revolution |
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| Modern farming that refers o the industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops. |
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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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| The collection of new agricultural techniques which developed by the 1970's. |
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| A process in which fertile land becomes desert. |
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| The process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural events. |
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| Crops that are grown without fertilizers or pesticides. |
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Integrates plant and animal production on practices that will protect the ecosystem over the long term.
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