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| 6194172532 | Agriculture | 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. | 0 | |
| 6194178666 | Agrarian | concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land | 1 | |
| 6194181265 | Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. | 2 | |
| 6194191216 | Agricultural industrialization | The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors etc. - makes it easier for farmers to have higher crop yields. | 3 | |
| 6194199407 | Animal Domestication | Taming of animals for selling or using byproducts (the Fertile Crescent had cow, horses, pigs, and sheep, and therefore a comparative advantage over other early culture hearths). | 4 | |
| 6194202032 | Aquaculture | The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions | 5 | |
| 6194246020 | Biorevolution | The revolution of biotechnology and the use of it in societies, genetic engineering of plants and animals with the potential to greatly exceed the productivity improvements of the Green Revolution | 6 | |
| 6194257077 | biotechnology | A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes. | 7 | |
| 6194268424 | climatic regions | Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics | 8 | |
| 6194308228 | intensive commercial agriculture | Refers specifically to the production of crops that give high yields and high market value per unit of land. These include fruits, vegetables, and dairy products, all of which are highly perishable, as well as some "factory farm" production of livestock | 9 | |
| 6194316542 | Extensive Commercial Agriculture | It is a system of agriculture in which relatively small amounts of capital or labor investment are applied to relatively large areas of land. Grain and livestock ranching apply. | 10 | |
| 6194325276 | Dairying | An agricultural activity involving the raising of livestock, most commonly cows and goats, for dairy products such as milk, cheese, and butter. | 11 | |
| 6194331794 | Crop rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. | 12 | |
| 6194334868 | double cropping | harvesting twice a year from the same field | 13 | |
| 6194344169 | primary economic activities | Economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment- such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture. | 14 | |
| 6194359087 | secondary economic activities | Economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products: the manufacturing sector. | 15 | |
| 6194365660 | tertiary economic activities | Economic activity associated with the provision of services - such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs. | 16 | |
| 6194372616 | quaternary economic activities | Service sector industries concerned with the collection processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services. | 17 | |
| 6194380233 | quinary economic activities | Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge skill (scientific research, high-level management) | 18 | |
| 6194389642 | extensive subsistence agriculture | Consists of any agricultural economy in which the crops and/or animals are used nearly exclusively for local or family consumption on large areas of land and minimal labor input per acre | 19 | |
| 6194396845 | shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which 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. | 20 | |
| 6194403584 | nomadic herding | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | 21 | |
| 6194406310 | feedlot | an area or building where livestock are fed and fattened up | 22 | |
| 6194413428 | first agricultural revolution | Humans were able to stay in one place, grow their populations, and start to build communities. The ability to produce food without roaming for it increased the carrying capacity of Earth, which charted the path towards the development of civilization. The domestication of plants and animals and the resulting start of a sedentary society (also called the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution) | 23 | |
| 6194422265 | gmo | GMO - foods that are mostly products or organisms that have their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional value allowing growers greater control, predictability, and efficiency. | 24 | |
| 6194424805 | green revolution | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. | 25 | |
| 6194435209 | intensive subsistence agriculture | Intensive Subsistence Agriculture A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land | 26 | |
| 6194438840 | livestock ranching | An extensive commercial agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic ares typically located in semi-arid climates like the American West. | 27 | |
| 6194447075 | luxury crops | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco | 28 | |
| 6194449201 | market gardening | Market Gardening The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers. Distinguishable by the large diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, during a single growing season. Labor is done manually. | 29 | |
| 6194456011 | mediterranean agriculture | Mediterranean Agriculture An agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean style climates of Western Europe, California, and portions of Chile and Australia, in which diverse specialty crops such as grapes, avocados, olives, and a host of nuts, fruits, and vegetables comprise profitable agricultural operations. | 30 | |
| 6194459424 | organic agriculture | Organic Agriculture The use of crop rotation, natural fertilizers such as manure, and biological pest control, as opposed to artificial fertilizers,pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, additives, and genetically modified organisms, to promote healthy vigorous crops. | 31 | |
| 6194464075 | plant domestication | Plant Domestication Genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention | 32 | |
| 6194466236 | plantation agriculture | Plantation Agriculture Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Almost all plantations were established within the tropics; in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings or reorganized as cooperatives | 33 | |
| 6194471984 | rural settlement | Sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities. Live in villages, hamlets on farms, or in other isolated houses. Typically have an agricultural character, with an economy based on logging, mining, petroleum, natural gas or tourism (ecotourism). | 34 | |
| 6194479304 | dispersed | 35 | ||
| 6194479305 | nucleated | 36 | ||
| 6194481558 | village farms | 37 | ||
| 6194481559 | sauer | 38 | ||
| 6194484237 | second agricultural revolution | 39 | ||
| 6194488022 | survey patterns | 40 | ||
| 6194488023 | long lot | 41 | ||
| 6194488099 | metes and bounds | 42 | ||
| 6194493034 | township and range | 43 | ||
| 6194494972 | third agriculture revolution | 44 | ||
| 6194494973 | transhumance | 45 | ||
| 6194494974 | truck farm | 46 | ||
| 6194499979 | von thunen | 47 | ||
| 6194502243 | agricultural revolution | 48 | ||
| 6194506044 | cereal grain | 49 | ||
| 6194506045 | chaff | 50 | ||
| 6194506046 | combine | 51 | ||
| 6194508834 | commercial agriculture | 52 | ||
| 6194517977 | crop | 53 | ||
| 6194517978 | desertification | 54 | ||
| 6194517979 | crop | 55 | ||
| 6194520368 | luxury xrops | 56 | ||
| 6194520369 | desertification | 57 | ||
| 6194522754 | revolution | 58 | ||
| 6194522755 | organic culture | 59 | ||
| 6194524937 | green revolution | 60 | ||
| 6194524938 | feedlot | 61 | ||
| 6194524968 | nomadic herding | 62 | ||
| 6194527864 | livestock ranch | 63 | ||
| 6194527865 | luxury xrops | 64 | ||
| 6194529708 | nucleated | 65 | ||
| 6194529709 | sauer | 66 | ||
| 6194529710 | dispersed | 67 | ||
| 6194532088 | rural settlement | 68 | ||
| 6194532089 | plant domestication | 69 | ||
| 6194532090 | long lot | 70 | ||
| 6194534129 | metes and bohnds | 71 | ||
| 6194534130 | survey patterns | 72 | ||
| 6194536582 | village forms | 73 | ||
| 6194536583 | nucleatd | 74 | ||
| 6194536584 | plantation | 75 | ||
| 6194538069 | survey | 76 | ||
| 6194538070 | transhumance | 77 | ||
| 6194539809 | second agriculture | 78 | ||
| 6194539810 | township and range | 79 |
