9493360839 | Agribusiness | System of food production involving everything from the development of the seeds to the marketing and sale of food products at the market. | 0 | |
9493360840 | Cash Crops | Planting large amounts of profitable crops for mass production and sell. | 1 | |
9493360841 | Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 2 | |
9493360842 | GMOs | Foods that\have their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistant, increased productivity, or nutrients value | 3 | |
9493360843 | Intensive Subsistence Farming | 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. | 4 | |
9493360844 | Monoculture | Dependence on a single agricultural commodity. | 5 | |
9493360845 | Mechanization | In agriculture, the replacement of human labor with technology or machines. | 6 | |
9493360847 | Plantation Agriculture | Raising a large amount of a 'cash crop' for local sale or export. | 7 | |
9493360848 | Transhumance | Movement of animal herd to cooler highland areas in the summer to warmer lowland areas in the winter. | 8 | |
9493360849 | Von Thunen Model | Theory that a commercial farmer wull decide which crops to grow and which livestock to raise depending on the proximity to market. | ![]() | 9 |
9493360850 | Green Revolution | An outgrowth of the 3rd agricultural revolution, this effort began in the 1940s and developed new strains of hybrid seeds and fertilizers that dramatically increased the crop output possible from each farm. | 10 | |
9493360854 | Nomadism | Dry Areas Same climate as livestock ranching(commercial farms in MDCs) Marginalized land | 11 | |
9493360855 | Mixed livestock and grain | Raise domesticated animals and growing feed | 12 | |
9493360856 | Commercial Grain Farming | Wheat belt Bread-basket US Corn belt | 13 | |
9493360857 | 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, | 14 | |
9493360858 | Agrarian | relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land | 15 | |
9493360859 | Agricultural Industrialization | The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors etc. - makes it easier for farmers to have higher crop yields. | 16 | |
9493360860 | Agricultural Landscape | The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields. | 17 | |
9493360863 | Dairy Farms | specialized in dairy products, N. America, Europe, NOT Africa, South America, Asia | 18 | |
9493360864 | Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. | 19 | |
9493360866 | Feedlot | a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market | 20 | |
9493360867 | Food Desert | An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain | 21 | |
9493360869 | Hunting and Gathering | the killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance | 22 | |
9493360871 | Livestock Ranching | 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 | 23 | |
9493360875 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 24 | |
9493360876 | Organic Agriculture | Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs. | 25 | |
9493360877 | Pesticides | Chemicals used on plants that do not harm the plants, but kill pests and have negative repercussions on other species who ingest the chemicals. | 26 | |
9493360878 | Plant Domestication | genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention | 27 | |
9493360883 | Carl Sauer | Defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. | 28 | |
9493360884 | 2nd Agriculture Revolution | Innovations led to agricultural surpluses, food surpluses, let people move from farms to factories, growth of cities increased. | 29 | |
9493360887 | Specialization | The concentration of the productive efforts of individuals and firms on a limited number of activities | 30 | |
9493360888 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 31 | |
9493360890 | Township and Range System | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. | 32 | |
9493360891 | Third Agriculture Revolution | 'green revolution' rapid diffusion of new ag techniques between 1970's and 1980's, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers | 33 | |
9493360892 | Soil Erosion | the wearing away and removal of rock and soil particles from exposed surfaces by agents such as moving water, wind, or ice | 34 |
AP Human Geography Agriculture Flashcards
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