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| 6645071050 | Agribusiness | a large-scale farming enterprise |  | 0 |
| 6645077968 | Agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |  | 1 |
| 6645086481 | biotechnology | the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments |  | 2 |
| 6645092791 | commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. |  | 3 |
| 6645125620 | von thuen model | Used to explain the importance of proximity to market in choice of crops on commercial farms. Must combine the value of high yield crop per hectare and the cost of transporting the yield per hectare. (For example something like dairy products can't be located far away from cities because the milk would spoil before they could get it to the city) |  | 4 |
| 6645135345 | gmo | [genetically modified organism] an organism that has acquired one or more genes by artificial genes. |  | 5 |
| 6645140722 | green revolution | the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity |  | 6 |
| 6645151841 | livestock ranges | An extensive commercial agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic spaces typically located in semi-arid climates like the American West. |  | 7 |
| 6645156136 | luxury crop | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco |  | 8 |
| 6645183029 | Slash-And-Burn (Swidden) | farmers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris. Swidden is the cleared area that is known by a variety of names in different regions (swidden is the name in one specific region). |  | 9 |
| 6645191905 | Sustainable 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. |  | 10 |
| 6645203146 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. |  | 11 |
| 6645215432 | organic agriculture | approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicieds, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs |  | 12 |
| 6645219293 | primary economic activity | economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment; such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture |  | 13 |
| 6645227370 | secondary economic activity | economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector |  | 14 |
| 6645230456 | tertiary economic activity | economic activity associated with the provision fo services (transportation, banking, retailing, education, routine, office-based jobs) |  | 15 |
| 6645235396 | quaternary economic activity | service sector industires concerned with the collection, processing, and manipuation of information and capital (finance, administration, insurance, legal services) |  | 16 |
| 6645237864 | quinary economic activity | service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge skill (scientific research, high-level management) |  | 17 |
| 6645242558 | plant domesticaton | genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention |  | 18 |
| 6645244152 | root crops | crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants |  | 19 |
| 6645250359 | seed crops | crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants |  | 20 |
| 6645253842 | First Agricultural Revolution | Dating back 10,000 years, achieved plant domestication and animal domestication |  | 21 |
| 6645256242 | animal domestication | genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control |  | 22 |
| 6645262653 | shifting cultivation | used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored. |  | 23 |
| 6645267403 | Second Agricultural Revolution | dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce |  | 24 |
| 6645274412 | Third Agricultural Revolution | Currently in progress, development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) in agriculture |  | 25 |
| 6645280365 | rectangular survey system | Also called the Public Land Survey, the system was used by the US Land Office Survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The system divides land into a series of rectangular parcels. |  | 26 |
| 6645283456 | township and range system | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. |  | 27 |
| 6645287711 | metes and bounds system | A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. |  | 28 |
| 6645293947 | primogeniture | system where the eldest son in a family, or in exceptional cases, a daughter inherits all of the parent's land |  | 29 |
| 6645297348 | monoculture | dependence on a single agricultural commodity |  | 30 |
| 6645301816 | Koppen climatic classification system | Developed by Wladimir Koppen, a system for classifying the world's climates on the basis of temperature and precipitatiion |  | 31 |
| 6645304907 | climatic regions | Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics |  | 32 |
| 6645308138 | plantation agriculture | Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. |  | 33 |
| 6645326148 | food desert | imited access to fresh nutritious foods - low income neighborhoods where consumers have little access to medium and large grocery stores. |  | 34 |
| 6645336854 | cash crop | subsistence crops - cotton |  | 35 |
| 6683145182 | Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East that includes most of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and the Nile River basin in Egypt | .What are the agricultural hearths? | 36 | |
| 6683172908 | destroyed ecosystem | What is an environmental effect of Swidden (Slash and Burn) agriculture? | 37 | |
| 6683193014 | linear, walled, cluster, round, and grid villages | Name the 5 various village systems | 38 | |
| 6683357089 | linear villages | are one with Road goes through the town, and everyone's house is on the road, farm extends behind their houses .Example: Japanese. |  | 39 |
| 6683360086 | walled villages | are villages with where the village is surrounded by fortified walls. Example:Nigeria, Farm Villages |  | 40 |
| 6683360087 | cluster villages | these have more than one major road that they build along, and they also have houses that clusters around large public buildings, such as churches, livestock corrals, or grain bins. |  | 41 |
| 6683362291 | round villages | are the most traditional style is found in east africa and parts of europe, and it features houses that circle around a central corral for animals. Location : East Africa |  | 42 |
| 6683362292 | grid villages | are most like a modern village - straight street patterns that run in parallel and perpendicular lines. | 43 | |
| 6683549417 | Township and Range, Metes and Bounds, Longlot Survey | Name the Three Cadastral Systems | 44 | |
| 6683527058 | long lot | french formed idea, divides lands into narrow parcels connected to water to irrigate crops. |  | 45 |
| 6688845779 | Northern England during the second half of the 18th century | When and where did the modern concept of industry originate? | 46 | |
| 6688909800 | the late 1700's | The Industrial Revolution began in? | 47 | |
| 6705173288 | nucleated settlement | form around a central area. |  | 48 |
| 6705184822 | dispersed settlement | Typically, there are a number of separate farmsteads scattered throughout the area |  | 49 |
| 6705315996 | social stratification | based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power |  | 50 |
| 6736428240 | fair trade | trade in which fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries. | 51 |
