6372172752 | 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 | |
6372172753 | Cash Crops | Planting large amounts of profitable crops for mass production and sell. | 1 | |
6372172754 | Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 2 | |
6372172756 | GMOs | Foods that\have their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistant, increased productivity, or nutrients value | 3 | |
6372172757 | 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 | |
6372172759 | Mechanization | In agriculture, the replacement of human labor with technology or machines. | 5 | |
6372172760 | Market Gardening | The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers. | 6 | |
6372172761 | Primary Economy | Any economic activity pertaining to the collecting, harvesting, and obtaining of raw materials. | 7 | |
6372172762 | Plantation Agriculture | Raising a large amount of a 'cash crop' for local sale or export. | 8 | |
6372172766 | 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 |
6372172767 | 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 | |
6372172768 | Examples of Primary Economic Activities | Raising livestock Mining Quarrying Crude oil extraction Lumbering Wheat growing Cotton | 11 | |
6372172769 | Examples of Secondary Economic Activities | Milk, Cheese Diamonds Petroleum Furniture Bread, Beer Textiles | 12 | |
6372172770 | Examples of Tertiary Economic Activities | Corporation Doctors Attorneys Tourism | 13 | |
6372172771 | Nomadism | Dry Areas Same climate as livestock ranching(commercial farms in MDCs) Marginalized land | 14 | |
6372172772 | Mixed livestock and grain | Raise domesticated animals and growing feed, most common in US/Europe | 15 | |
6372172773 | Commercial Grain Farming | Wheat belt Bread-basket US Corn belt | 16 | |
6372172774 | 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, | 17 | |
6372172777 | Truck Farms | Farm where farmers produce fruits for the market Use mechanization to produce large quantities of fruits and veggies | 18 | |
6372172782 | Agricultural Landscape | The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields. | 19 | |
6372172790 | Dairy Farms | specialized in dairy products, N. America, Europe, NOT Africa, South America, Asia | 20 | |
6372172792 | Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. | 21 | |
6372172793 | Dispersed (Rural Settlement Type) | characteristics of the contemporary North American rural landscape, by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers. | 22 | |
6372172794 | Extensive Commercial Agriculture | A crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output | 23 | |
6372172799 | Food Desert | An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain | 24 | |
6372172801 | Globalized Agriculture | system of food production increasingly dependent upon an economy and set of regulatory practices that are global in scope and organization | 25 | |
6372172803 | Hunting and Gathering | the killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance | 26 | |
6372172805 | 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 | 27 | |
6372172806 | Long-Lot Survey System | A distinct regional approach to land surveying whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals | 28 | |
6372172807 | Luxury Crops | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco | 29 | |
6372172808 | Metes and Bounds System | a system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains. The system relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. | 30 | |
6372172809 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 31 | |
6372172810 | Nucleated( Rural Settlement System) | clustered settlement is one of the main types of settlement pattern. It is one of the terms used by geographers and landscape historians to classify settlements | 32 | |
6372172811 | Organic Agriculture | Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs. | 33 | |
6372172812 | 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. | 34 | |
6372172814 | Plant Domestication | genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention | 35 | |
6372172816 | 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. | 36 | |
6372172817 | Quinary Economic Activities | service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management. | 37 | |
6372172818 | Rectangular Survey System | A system used to divide public domain lands in the United States in which land is divided into 6-mile square townships and subdivided into sections, portions of sections, or irregular lots. | 38 | |
6372172820 | Carl Sauer | Defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis, focused on Agricultural Hearths. | 39 | |
6372172821 | 2nd Agriculture Revolution | Innovations led to agricultural surpluses, food surpluses, let people move from farms to factories, growth of cities increased. | 40 | |
6372172822 | Secondary Economic Activity | economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector | 41 | |
6372172823 | Seed Crops | crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants. crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants. | 42 | |
6372172825 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 43 | |
6372172827 | Tertiary Economic Activity | economic activity associated with the provision of services--such transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs. | 44 | |
6372172828 | Township and Range System | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. | 45 | |
6372172829 | Third Agriculture Revolution | 'green revolution' rapid diffusion of new ag techniques between 1970's and 1980's, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers | 46 | |
6372172830 | Village Form (Rural Settlement Type) | a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings | 47 |
AP Human Geography Agriculture Flashcards
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