Chapter 10 Study Guide Vocab

3. Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
5. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
8. Commercial gardening and fruit farming.
9. an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
12. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high yield seeds and fertilizers
14. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
17. Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
18. A technique of rotational farming in which land is cleared for cultivation and then left to regenerate after a few years.
19. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
20. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.

1. Agricultural practices that preserve and enhance environmental quality.
2. The type of farming where the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor.
4. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
6. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
7. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.
10. A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
11. A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
13. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country
15. Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because to human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
16. A flooded field for growing rice.
19. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.