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Question | Answer |
Agriculture | Deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain. |
Crop | Any plant cultivated by people |
Subsistence agriculture | Found in LDCs and is the production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family. |
Commercial agriculture | Found in MDCs and is the production of food primarily for sale off the farm. |
Prime agricultural land | The most productive farmland |
Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. |
Shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. |
Slash-and-burn agriculture | Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. |
Plantation | A large farm that specializes in one or two crops. |
Cereal grain | A grass yielding grain for food. |
Milkshed | The ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling |
Grain | The seed from various grasses, like wheat, corn, oats, barley, rice, millet, and others. |
Winter wheat | Wheat planted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer. |
Spring wheat | Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer. |
Reaper | A machine that cuts grain standing in the field. |
Combine | A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field. |
Ranching | The commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area. |
Horticulture | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
Truck farming | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities. |
Sustainable agriculture | An agricultural process that preserves and enhances environmental quality. |
Ridge tillage | A system of planting crops on ridge tops. |
Desertification | Process in which human actions are causing land to deteriorate to a desertlike condition. |
Green revolution | The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970s and 1980s. |
Consumer services | Provides services to individual customers who desire them and can afford to pay for them. |
Business services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transporting services. |
Public services | Provides security and protection for citizens and businesses. |
City-states | Independent self-governing communities that included the settlement and nearby countryside. |
Clustered rural settlement | A place where a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings. |
Dispersed rural settlement | Characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than along-side other farmers in settlements. |
Enclosure movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. |
Urbanization | The process by which the population of urban settlements grows. |
Sustainable development | "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." |
Conservation | The sustainable use and management of natural resources such as wildlife, water, air, and Earth's resources to meet human needs, including food, medicine, and recreation. |
Preservation | The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as little human impact as possible. |
Biodiversity | The variety of species across Earth as a whole or in a specific place. |
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