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- 3. People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects.
- 5. the place from which agriculture, or a form of agriculture originates
- 9. _(Swidden) Agriculture: Agriculture that involves cutting small plots in forests or woodlands, burning the cuttings to clear the ground and release nutrients, and planting in the ash of the cleared plot
- 12. Growing crops to feed your animals whose manure fertilizes your crops
- 14. the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
- 17. Settling in one place and making that place a permanent home
- 19. _ Agriculture: Growing specialized crops such as bananas, coffee, and cacao in tropical developing countries, primarily for sale to developed countries.
- 21. Overall weather in an area over a long period of time
- 24. Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods
- 26. Planting a single crop per year but not necessarily the same crop every year.
- 27. _ Revolution: Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds. Has greatly reduced famine, but also resulted in negative side effects like run-off and the water shortages
- 28. _ Settlement: a pattern of settlements in which homes and other buildings follow the lines taken by the road
- 31. _ Agriculture: Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
- 33. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
- 34. A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.
- 37. _ Agriculture: specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails
- 38. _ Settlement: a rural settlement pattern in which residents live in close proximity to one another, with farmland and pasture land surrounding the settlement; also known as a nucleated settlement
- 39. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
- 40. The loose, weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow.
- 41. People shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
- 42. _ Settlement: A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
- 43. are the areas that share similar tempatures and precipation throughout the year
- 45. _ Agriculture: expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
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- 1. The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.
- 2. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
- 4. _ Agriculture: Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
- 6. An agricultural method that utilizes large plantings of a single species or variety
- 7. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
- 8. _ Agricultural Revolution: Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.
- 10. Communal lands were replaced by farms owned by individuals, and use of the land was restricted to the owner or tenants who rented the land from the owner
- 11. _ Agriculture: Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
- 13. migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage
- 15. The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
- 16. Intensive method of raising livestock
- 18. The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers.
- 20. _ System: yearly rotation of several crops including wheat, turnips, barley, clover, and ryegrass, also fed livestock and promoted greater yields.
- 22. Surveying whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, and canals
- 23. geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance to the Central Business District (CBD) increases.
- 25. The nucleus or "downtown" of a city, where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated, and land values are high
- 29. Survey method developed by Thomas Jefferson that divides land into a 6 mile by 6 mile township that is then subdivided into rectangular sections
- 30. The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans
- 32. _ Agricultural Revolution: improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce - allowed for the Industrial Revolution
- 35. the time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow
- 36. _ Agriculture: An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area.
- 44. _ Agricultural Revolution: Modern mechanization of agriculture; the use of scientific knowledge to create GMOs that are drought and disease resistant; and the use of synthetic fertilizers & pesticides