AP Human Geography - Agriculture

2. Planting crops for food.
4. Cash crops are grown on large estates is called this.
6. Specialized farming occurs in this region due to the warm dry summers (ex. olives).
7. Adopted along the Eastern seaboard, in which natural features are used to demarcate irregular parcels of land.
9. organization of land into parcels.
10. Areas with similar climate conditions.
12. Region of the world where subsistence agriculture is practiced.
14. Tea, cacao, coffee and tobacco are this.
19. Moved agriculture beyond subsistence to generate surpluses needed to feed thousands of people.
22. Genetically Modified Organisms.
23. Farming just enough to support one's needs.
24. Created experiments to raise seed crops.
25. Described land use patterns related to agriculture.
26. Part of the service industry, connecting producers to consumers and facilitating commerce/trade.

1. Divided land into narrow parcels, common in French America.
3. Explains the location of 5 of the world's agricultural production areas.
4. Hunting and gathering.
5. Describes great technological advances in agriculture, including GMOs.
8. The Fertile Crescent was the location of this early agricultural period.
11. Yields a small output per acre and occurs over large tracts of land.
13. Practice of passing land to the eldest son.
15. Designed to facilitate the movement of non-Indians evenly across farmlands of the US, imposed a rigid, grid like system.
16. Taking a primary product and manufacturing it.
17. Also called the green revolution.
18. Employs a large number of people and little capital.
19. A shifting cultivation process that uses fire.
20. The prevailing survey system throughout much of the US that appears as a checkerboard across agricultural fields.
21. This type of agriculture has increased in the US.