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| 13060572224 | Intertillage | practice of mixing different seeds and seedlings in the same swidden | 0 | |
| 13060572225 | swidden | A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning. | 1 | |
| 13060572226 | Slash/burn | when an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops. | 2 | |
| 13060572227 | Market Gardening | the growing of vegetables or flowers for market | 3 | |
| 13060572228 | Pastoral Nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | 4 | |
| 13060572229 | Antibiotics | Drugs that block the growth and reproduction of bacteria | 5 | |
| 13060572230 | Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. | 6 | |
| 13060572231 | Sustainability | The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained | 7 | |
| 13060572232 | Intercropping | Growing two or more different crops at the same time on a plot. | 8 | |
| 13060572233 | Suitcase Farms | a commercial farm in which no one lives, and work/harvesting is done by migratory workers | 9 | |
| 13060572234 | Multicropping | growing several species of plants in a single garden | 10 | |
| 13060572235 | 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. | 11 | |
| 13060572236 | Meditteranean | Mediterranean climates are not too hot or cold. They are found around the Mediterranean Sea, near Cape Town in South Africa and Melbourne in Australia. | 12 | |
| 13060572237 | Thresher/reaper | grain production; harvest plants when ripe | 13 | |
| 13060572238 | Feedlots(CAFO) | Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to as factory farms. | 14 | |
| 13060572239 | Biomass | A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region | 15 | |
| 13060572240 | Recycling | Convert waste into reusable material. | 16 | |
| 13060572241 | Luxury crops (cash/specialty crops) | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco | 17 | |
| 13060572242 | Monoculture | farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year | 18 | |
| 13060572243 | Crop Rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. | 19 | |
| 13060572244 | Mixed Farming | Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm | 20 | |
| 13060572245 | Deindustrialization | Loss of industrial activity in a region. | 21 | |
| 13060572246 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada. | 22 | |
| 13060572247 | Fermentation | The chemical breakdown of a substance by microorganisms; yeast on sugars | 23 | |
| 13060572248 | Conservative | traditional | 24 | |
| 13060572249 | Ridge Tillage | System of planting crops on ridge tops, in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation. | 25 | |
| 13060572250 | Deforestation | the action of clearing a wide area of trees. | 26 | |
| 13060572251 | Plantation | 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. | 27 | |
| 13060572252 | Terracing | creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface, which reduces soil runoff from the slope. | 28 | |
| 13060572253 | Large-Scale Agriculture | in this kind of farming, people produce more than enough crops, and usually have a surplus left over | 29 | |
| 13060572254 | Devolution | the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states | 30 | |
| 13060572255 | Aquaculture | Raising marine and freshwater fish in ponds and underwater cages | 31 | |
| 13060572256 | Irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land | 32 | |
| 13060572257 | Hydroponics | a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | 33 | |
| 13060572258 | Cottage Industry Farms | Farms managed and carried out in a persons house | 34 | |
| 13060572259 | Agriculture | the purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food for human consumption | 35 | |
| 13060572260 | Tarrifs | A tax on imported goods (international taxes) | 36 | |
| 13060572261 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 37 | |
| 13060572262 | Nomatic | wandering, moving from place to place | 38 | |
| 13060572263 | Site(permanent) | soil quality,climate,landforms | 39 | |
| 13060572264 | Situations (can change) | the location of a place relative to other places | 40 | |
| 13060572265 | Climate | air temp. + percipitation | 41 | |
| 13060572266 | 1st Agricultural Revolution (1400s years ago) | Dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication *Subsistence *Sedentary *Primitive Food Storage (roots,seeds,animals,tools) | 42 | |
| 13060572267 | 2nd Agricultural Revolution(1750s-1930s) | period of technological change from the 1600s to mid-1900s beginning in Western Europe with industrial innovations to replace human labor with machines and to supplement natural fertilizers and pesticides with chemical ones *trade *specialization(commercial) *Food Storage *Improved Irrigation *Mechanisms *Infrastructures *Food Surplus | 43 | |
| 13060572268 | 3rd Agricultural Revolution (1940s-today) | Currently in progress, its principal orientation is on the development of genetically modified organisms. Also known as the green revolution. *reduced famine *high-yield grains(rice) *Corporate/Commercial farms *gis/gps *agribusiness *GMOS *mechanized tools/machinery *Biogenetics | 44 | |
| 13060572269 | Green Revolution | a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties. | 45 | |
| 13060572270 | Transhumance | The movements of livestock according to seasonal patterns, generally lowland areas in the winter, and highland areas in the summer. | 46 | |
| 13060572271 | Intensive crops | Require a lot of human energy+effort to grow *tomatoes *Rice *Corn *Strawberries *Avocados | 47 | |
| 13060572272 | Extensive Crops | Independently grown *Wheat *Millet *Cacti *Pumpkins *Apples | 48 | |
| 13060572273 | Origin of Plant/Animal Domestication | Southeast Asia-early domestication of root crops(14,000 years ago) Southwest Asia(Mesopotamia)-early domestication of seed crops(10,000 years ago) | 49 | |
| 13060572274 | Trade Imbalance | A situation in which a country imports more goods than it exports. | 50 | |
| 13060572288 | Von Thunen Model |  | 51 | |
| 13060572275 | What did John Deere invent? | steel plow | 52 | |
| 13060572276 | Industrial Revolution Innovations and their benefits | *Grain Elevators-better storage *Seed Drill-Better/efficient planting *Fertilizers- Steroids for plants *Infrastructure Improvements-Better transports *Advancements in Livestock Breeding | 53 | |
| 13060572277 | Irish | "Pushed" to the U.S. due to a potato famine. Built canals in U.S | 54 | |
| 13060572278 | Chinese | "Pulled" to the U.S. for economic opportunities. Built railroads | 55 | |
| 13060572279 | Germans/Polish | Came to U.S to work in food industry; animal slaughtering | 56 | |
| 13060572280 | Commercialization | efficient production, enabled widespread urbanization(use of machines) | 57 | |
| 13060572281 | Critisms of Von Thunen model | *Soil fertility *Diff. Transport costs *Topography variation *Change in demand | 58 | |
| 13060572282 | Cut Flower Industry | South/Central American flowers imported *sprayed w/ chemicals *bouquets | 59 | |
| 13060572283 | GMOS | Genetically modified organisms. Organisms created by combining natural or synthetic genes using the techniques of molecular biology. *Produce more food to feed more people | 60 | |
| 13060572284 | Cadastral System | the method of land survey through which land ownership and property lines are defined | 61 | |
| 13060572285 | township and range system | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. (6x6=36 sq mile=township) | 62 | |
| 13060572286 | Metes and Bounds | A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land. | 63 | |
| 13060572287 | longlot survey system | divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals | 64 |
