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| 358144119 | agribusiness | a large-scale farming enterprise | 0 | |
| 358144120 | agricultural hearths | Farming practices diffused across the surface of the earth. | 1 | |
| 358144121 | agriculture | the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy) | 2 | |
| 358144122 | biotechnology | the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | 3 | |
| 358144123 | cereal grains | corn, wheat, rice, and other grasses | 4 | |
| 358144124 | Colombian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 5 | |
| 358144125 | commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 6 | |
| 358144126 | desertification | the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert | 7 | |
| 358144127 | dispersed settlement pattern | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages | 8 | |
| 358144128 | enclosure | the act of enclosing something inside something else | 9 | |
| 358144129 | erosion | condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind | 10 | |
| 359714352 | 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 | 11 | |
| 359714353 | extensive agriculture | An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. | 12 | |
| 359714354 | Green Revolution | the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity | 13 | |
| 359714355 | hamlets, villages | small clustered of building and slightly larger settlements | 14 | |
| 359714356 | horticulture | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. | 15 | |
| 359714357 | hunters and gatherers | people who survive by eating animals that they have caught or plants they have gathered | 16 | |
| 359714358 | industrial agriculture | a form of agriculture that is capital-intensive, substituting machinery and purchased inputs for human and animal labor | 17 | |
| 359714359 | intensive 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. | 18 | |
| 359714360 | 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. | 19 | |
| 359714361 | irrigation | the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops. | 20 | |
| 359714362 | job specialization | The process by which a division of labor occurs as different workers specialize in different tasks over time. | 21 | |
| 359714363 | labor intensive agriculture | Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful. | 22 | |
| 359714364 | location theory | a logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of economic activities & the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated | 23 | |
| 359714365 | long-lot survey system | distinct regional approach to land surveying found in the Canadian Maritimes, parts of Quebec, Louisiana, and Texas whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals | 24 | |
| 359714366 | 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, | 25 | |
| 359714367 | mercantilism | an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 26 | |
| 359714368 | metes and bounds | Legal description that begins at a well marked point and follows the boundaries around the tract, back to the place of beginning | 27 | |
| 359714369 | milkshed | The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied | 28 | |
| 359714370 | mixed crop and livestock farming | both animal and crops are farmed in the same area, it's helpful because farmers could distribute the workload more evenly through the year | 29 | |
| 359714371 | Neolithic Revolution | This social revolution was also known as the New Stone Age where people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating animals and cultivating land as farmers. | 30 | |
| 359714372 | nomadism | A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. | 31 | |
| 359714373 | nucleated settlement pattern | villages located quite close together with relatively small surrounding fields | 32 | |
| 359714374 | organic agriculture | crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers | 33 | |
| 359714375 | pampas | a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay, flat grassland regions | 34 | |
| 359714376 | pastoral nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | 35 | |
| 359714377 | patriarchal system | When men had the power in the family, the economy, and the government | 36 | |
| 359714378 | plantation farming | A large estate owned by an individual or group organized to sell one or two cash crops using slave labor. | 37 | |
| 359714379 | post-industrial societies | economically dependent upon the production and distribution of services, information, and knowledge. | 38 | |
| 359714380 | primary sector (agriculture) | The part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment. | 39 | |
| 359714381 | primogeniture | seniority by birth; state of being the first-born child; right of the eldest child (to inherit the entire property of one or both parents) | 40 | |
| 359714382 | quaternary sector | Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services. | 41 | |
| 359714383 | 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. | 42 | |
| 359714384 | Second Agriculture Revolution | Dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agriculture Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce. | 43 | |
| 359714385 | secondary sector (industry) | The part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods. | 44 | |
| 359714386 | seed agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result from sexual fertilization. | 45 | |
| 359714387 | seed drill | created by Jethro Tull, it allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths; this boosted crop yields | 46 | |
| 359714388 | shifting cultivation (swidden agriculture) | 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. Common in Slash & Burn in the Rain Forest farming (Rain Forest common practice) | 47 | |
| 359714389 | specialization | the growing of specialized crops becaase they seem to be the most profitable | 48 | |
| 359714390 | subsistence agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family | 49 | |
| 359714391 | tertiary sector | The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment. | 50 | |
| 359714392 | Third Agricultural Revolution | currently in progress, development of genetically modified organisms | 51 | |
| 359714393 | truck farming | growing vegetables for the market | 52 | |
| 359714394 | vegetative planting | reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants | 53 | |
| 359714395 | von Thunen's model | Model which shows the location of agriculture in regard to a comercial economy that is similar to the concentric model | 54 | |
| 359714396 | wattle | framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | 55 | |
| 359714397 | wet (lowland) rice | Rice planted on dryland in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth | 56 | |
| 359714398 | winter wheat area, spring wheat area | Winter: wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer. Spring: Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer | 57 |
