142149325 | extractive sector | synonym for primary sector | |
142149326 | primary sector | which sector is hunting, gathering, farming, herding, fishing, mining etc in? | |
142149327 | nomadic sedentary | what are the two types of hunting and gathering lifestyles | |
142149328 | commercial subsistence | what are the two types of farming lifestyles? | |
142149329 | agriculture | the deliberate modification of earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to produce food | |
142149330 | domestication | the effort to manipulate species for an advantage (sometimes unintentional) | |
142149331 | true | true or false: the agricultural revolution wasn't really a revolution because it happened of thousands of years | |
142149332 | Holocene | the first agricultural revolution started when? | |
142149333 | 12,000 | how many years ago was the first agricultural revolution | |
142149334 | neolithic revolution | what is the first agricultural revolution also called | |
142149335 | peru | what is the only hearth location that isn't based on a river | |
142149336 | animals | what was domesticated first, plants or animals | |
142149337 | pre-holocene pedomorphosis | what is the domestication of the dog called? (basically stopped wolf pups from maturing) | |
142149338 | eurasia | where are most animals suited for domestication found | |
142149339 | 40 | how many species of animals are domesticated | |
142149340 | bangladesh | where is the first hearth of domestication according to sauer's theory | |
142149341 | diversified ecosystems | what conditions does sauer think existed in the first hearth | |
142149342 | vegetative planting | what was the first method of domestication in saurer's theory | |
142149343 | vegetative planting | what is the method of domestication where tubers are plants are cloned or the root divides to form another plant | |
142149344 | ecumene | area of earth's surface that has been permanently settled | |
142149345 | seed agriculture | what happened after vegetative planting | |
142149346 | increased population | which effect of seed agriculture is caused by longer storability and emigration throughout the world | |
142149347 | social stratification | an effect of seed agriculture that is caused by people having different jobs and classes | |
142149348 | specialization of labor | which effect of seed agriculture led to last names like Farmer, Smith, Carpenter, and Baker | |
142149349 | false | true or false: seed agriculture caused less competition for land and resources | |
142149350 | true | true or false: seed agriculture led to the creation of government | |
142149351 | incipient cultivation | growing crops out of feces (which acts as fertilizer) | |
142149352 | legumes | what is the best source of lysine for vegetarians | |
142149353 | intertillage | the opposite of what was done in Old World (eurasia). growing dozens of different plants in the same area | |
142149354 | beasts of burden | why did the new world have to do intertillage? (what did they lack) | |
142149355 | high level predators | what animals in the food chain accumulate toxins (so it's not good to eat them) | |
143767472 | 4 | how many types of subsistence farming are there | |
142149356 | true | true or false: subsistence farmers can't practice monoculture | |
142149357 | pastoral nomadism | what type of subsistence farming depends on a domesticated herbivore (NOT for eating) and they wander with their herbivore | |
142149358 | false | true or false: in pastorialism and transhumance the animal is more often slaughtered than used for milk, shelter, and clothing | |
142149359 | true | true or false: the size of the heard equals the social class in nomads | |
142149360 | available resources | in pastorialsim, the cyclic migration patterns are based on what? | |
142149361 | true | true or false: Nomads in pastoralism are very territorial | |
142149362 | yurt | what is one example of a movable home in pastorialism | |
142149363 | polyandry | one wife having multiple husbands. practiced among nomads in mongolia | |
142149364 | transhumance | in which subsistence farming do the people seasonally migrate between the mountain pasture in the summer and the lowland pasture in the winter | |
142149365 | government | the nomads practicing transhumance are having conflict with who over land | |
142149366 | true | true or false: those that practice transhumance have a permanent settlement and don't move the home | |
142149367 | swidden | the area of land currently used for growing | |
142149368 | fallow | the land where nothing is planted (allowing the soil to recover) | |
142149369 | slash and burn | shifting agriculture is also called what | |
142149370 | rainforests | where is shifting agriculture good | |
142149371 | poor soil | why do the farmers need to burn vegetation and till the ash into the soil in rainforests | |
142149372 | 1.5-2 years | how long is the cleared land farmed in shifting agriculture | |
142149373 | false | true or false: shifting agriculture is sustainable even when you return to the previously cleared land quickly | |
142149374 | intensive | there are high inputs of capital, fertilizer, and labor to increase output | |
142149375 | intensive subsistence | what kind of subsistence farming has a high agricultural density (number of farmers per arable land) | |
142149376 | double cropping | obtaining two harvests (sometimes same crop) from one year | |
143767473 | mesoamerica | what is the hearth in the western hemisphere besides the incans | |
143767474 | fertile crescent | what is the hearth in the middle east | |
143767475 | nile river valley | what is the hearth in east africa besides ethiopia | |
143767476 | niger river valley | what is the hearth in west africa | |
143767477 | indus river valley | what is the hearth in south asia | |
143767478 | bangladesh | what is the hearth in se asia | |
143767479 | ethiopia | what is the hearth in east africa (farther south than other one) | |
143767480 | yellow river valley | what is the hearth in china | |
143767481 | 7 | how many types of commercial farming are there | |
143767482 | true | true or false: in mixed crop and livestock farming, most money comes from livestock | |
143767483 | animals | in mixed crop and livestock farming, who is fed the agricultural products | |
143767484 | false | true or false:double cropping is the same as mixed cropping | |
143767485 | true | true or false: mixed cropping is one harvest | |
143767486 | 5th AD | in what century did the 2 field system start | |
143767487 | 8th | in what century did the 3 field system start | |
143767488 | true | true or false: increasing the number of field divisions increased the harvest | |
143767489 | 18th | in what century did the 4 field system start | |
143767490 | 4 field | in what field system was a rest crop started to be used instead of fallow land | |
143767491 | clover | give an example of a rest crop | |
143767492 | winter cereal | what was grown in the 2 field system | |
143767493 | winter and spring cereal | what was grown in the 3 field system | |
143767494 | root crops | what crop was added in the 4 field system | |
143767495 | dairy belt | what is the area from the midwest to the northeast called | |
143767496 | milkshed | what is the area which you can transport milk before it perishes | |
143767497 | technology | what recently enlarged milksheds | |
143767498 | true | true or false: the number of dairy farmers is decreasing | |
143767499 | number of dairy farmers decreasing | too much work, too expensive to do, and the number of machines are increasing. these are reasons why... | |
143767500 | artificial breeding | how have farmers got more yield out of their cows | |
143767501 | manufacturers | in grain farming, the grain that isn't fed to livestock is sold to... | |
143767502 | wheat | what is the most important crop in the U.S. | |
143767503 | combine | what machine is used today to speed up harvests | |
143767504 | wheat | what is the world's leading export crop | |
143767505 | Canada US | what are the two top wheat exporting countries | |
143767506 | north america | what is the world's "bread basket" | |
143767507 | ukraine | what is europe's bread basket | |
143767508 | true | true or false: livestock ranching takes up an extensive area | |
143767509 | feed lot | where are the livestock put just before slaughter to get fat | |
143767510 | false | true or false: original cattle grazing on open land made cattle fat and weak | |
143767511 | butcher assembly line | where did henry ford get his assembly line idea | |
143767512 | climate | wind patterns, lattitude and elevation determine... | |
143767513 | mediterranean | what climate is 70 to 80 degrees with no rain all year | |
143767514 | california | where is the mediterranean climate in the US | |
143767515 | central chile | where is the mediterranean climate in south america | |
143767516 | s and sw australia | where is the mediterranean climate in the eastern southern hemisphere | |
143767517 | southern tip | where is the mediterranean climate in africa | |
143767518 | human consumption | crops in the mediterranean agriculture are grown for... | |
143767519 | horticulture and tree crops | mediterranean agriculture focuses on... | |
143767520 | water | the mediterranean climate is lucrative, but you need what? | |
143767521 | US southeast | what area uses commercial gardening and fruit farming | |
143767522 | large processors | besides direct human consumption, commercial gardening and fruit farming crops are sold to... | |
143767523 | truck farming | large scale farming far from market with one or two seasonal crops sold where the plant is impossible to grow | |
143767524 | migrant workers | commercial gardening and fruit farming uses (blank) to keep labor costs low | |
143767525 | true | true or false: plantation farming is used in all different climates | |
143767526 | neocolonialism | plantation farming is basically (blank) or a relic of colonialism | |
143767527 | MDCs | where are most plantation farming crops consumed | |
145104989 | 16th to 19th | in what centuries did the second agricultural revolution take place | |
145104990 | england | where did the second agricultural revolution start | |
145104991 | stage 2 of DTM | what transition did the second agricultural revolution cause | |
145104992 | 4 field | which field system was instituted during the second agricultural revolution | |
145104993 | enclosure system | the elimination of common land that happened during the second agr. revolution | |
145104994 | true | true or false: selective breeding started during the second agricultural revolution | |
145104995 | false | true or false: the number of livestock decreased during the second agricultural revolution | |
145104996 | iron plough steam engine | what two machines improved farming in the second agr. rev. | |
145104997 | horse collar | the thing made in the second agr. rev. that allow a horse to pull a plow instead of oxen | |
145104998 | horse shoe | what allowed horses to be used in agr. in all kinds of climates, including wet | |
145105000 | semi-processed fertilizer | feces put in a giant pile and let chemical reactions happen (gets really hot) to make fertilizer | |
145105001 | subsistence commercial | during the second agr. rev, (blank) farming changed to (blank) farming for the most part | |
145105002 | more food transportation urbanization | what are three effects of the second agr. rev. | |
145105003 | true | true or false: the second agr. rev. caused more pop. growth indirectly | |
145105004 | growth of cities market | the second agr. rev. caused (blank) which made a huge (blank) for crops | |
145105005 | colonization | the second agr. rev. led to the industrial rev. which led to (blank) | |
145105006 | transport goods farther | how did improvements in transportation (steamship, railroads) help farmers | |
145105007 | subsistence farming | the second agr. rev. and industrial rev. changed the periphery by eliminating what | |
145105008 | cash crops taxes | what two things did the imperial powers demand from the colonized periphery | |
145105009 | peanuts | what do they grow in senegal (neocolonialism today) | |
145105010 | angola sudan | name two countries that still produce the cash crop coffee | |
145105011 | zimbabwe | name a country that still produces tobacco | |
145105012 | tea | what does kenya produce (neocolonialism today) | |
145105013 | von thunen | who made the circular model on how the land is used and why | |
145105014 | isotropic | the land is uniform (same environment) | |
145105015 | climate land soil | what did von thunen assume would be uniform throughout the area | |
145105016 | no obstacles | what did von thunen assume about transportation | |
145105017 | social factors | besides the environment and transportation, von thunen assumed what | |
145105018 | bid or land rent | two synonyms for the price of land | |
145105019 | value of product land price transport cost | what are the 3 variables in von thunen's model | |
145105020 | intensive agr. and dairy | what is in the first ring around the city | |
145105021 | forest | what is in the second ring around the city | |
145105022 | grain farming | what is in the third rign around the city | |
145105023 | livestock | what is in the farthest ring around the city | |
145105024 | The Isolated State | what is von thunen's book | |
145105025 | refrigeration | what kind of killed von thunen's model's application today | |
145105026 | end world hunger | what was the green revolution's goal | |
145105027 | 1960s | when was the green revolution | |
145105028 | india mexico phillipines | where was the green revolution (3 places) | |
145105029 | miracle seeds | what were the new seeds called | |
145105030 | true | true or false: the rice in the green revolution was actually golden/ yellow | |
145105031 | vitamin A | what did the golden rice have in it to help the periphery's eyesight problems | |
145105032 | HYVs short | the new seeds in the green rev. were (blank) with (blank) growing seasons | |
145105033 | drought disease pest | the new seeds in the green rev. were (blank, blank, blank) resistant | |
145105034 | fertilizer pesticides | the green rev. brought increased use of modern (blank) and (blank) to the periphery | |
145105035 | irrigation methods wells | in terms of water, what did the green rev. bring the periphery | |
145105666 | true | true or false: during the green rev, mechanization was introduced to the farmers | |
146654613 | norman borlaug | the man who selectively bred crops like superwheat and superrice to help farmers have high yields- enough to sell | |
146654614 | population growth | the green rev. was a positive way to deal with increasing (blank) | |
146654615 | false | true or false: the green rev. made higher yield crops that could only grow in their natural conditions | |
146654616 | salinization | in semi-arid/arid areas, water pulled from the earth draws salt which accumulates and is never rained away | |
146654617 | true | true or false: the green revolution caused salinization | |
146654618 | monocropping | in terms of what kind of crop was grown, the green rev. caused (blank) | |
146654619 | top soil | the green rev. caused a loss of what kind of soil? | |
146654620 | true | true or false: the green rev. helped farmers but it was capital intensive, so some couldn't afford it | |
146654621 | super pests | the use of the same pesticides year after year creates (blank) | |
146654622 | the man | the green rev. caused the periphery to be dependent on (blank) | |
146654623 | now | when did the third agr. rev. happen? | |
146654624 | extreme mechanization | the 3rd agr. rev. is characterized by (blank) which causes less labor to be needed | |
146654625 | chemical farming | the 3rd agr. rev. is characterized by (blank) including synthetic fertilizers and pesticides | |
146654626 | nitrogen | what is most synthetic fertilizer made of | |
146654627 | true | true or false: pesticides have huge impacts on the environment | |
146654628 | refrigeration | what expanded the life of produce in the 3rd agr. rev. | |
146654629 | world market | the 3rd agr. rev. enabled farmers to sell goods to the (blank) | |
146654630 | genetically modified | foods that combine the DNA/genetic material of different species | |
146654631 | 3rd agr. rev. | when did GM foods start | |
146654632 | europe | what place/region has banned most GM foods | |
146654633 | transgenics | crossing DNA of organisms that would never mate in nature | |
146654634 | genetic modifying | tweaking DNA in a lab, tweaking that organism's DNA but not adding other types of organisms | |
146654635 | genetic modifying | disease/drought/pest resistance, prolific yields, added nutritional value are all benefits of what | |
146654636 | biotechnology | using organisms to improve other organisms | |
146654637 | patents | what is making transgenic plants and animals expensive (unaffordable for periphery) | |
146654638 | corporate farming | what is a synonym for agribusiness | |
146654639 | vertical integration | putting all the jobs (production, storage, processing, distribution, marketing, and retailing) under one big company | |
146654640 | conglomeration | a company that has lots of different products to buffer market changes | |
146654641 | everyone needs food | why is agribusiness stable? | |
146654642 | processor | what job in the chain of agribusiness makes the most money | |
146654643 | 30-30-10 rule | what is the rule that a processor wants to get his source from a spread of farms in case of disaster at one | |
146654644 | standardization | all the pieces in factories and the products produced are the same | |
146654645 | standardization | what do companies want in terms of variation in their products | |
146654646 | 20% | what percent of the nation's economy is agribusiness | |
146654647 | 3rd agr. rev. | when did agribusiness start | |
146654648 | false | true or false: globalization of corporations and food manufacturing started during the 2nd agr. rev. | |
146654649 | increases | food production (blank) the value of products | |
146654650 | subsistence farmers | globalization and food manufacturing leads to fewer (blanks) | |
146654651 | sovereignty | globalization and food manufacturing leads to a loss of (blank) for peripheral countries | |
146654652 | rostow | who made the development model | |
146654653 | traditional society | what is the first stage of rostow's model | |
146654654 | preconditions for takeoff | what is the second stage of rostows model | |
146654655 | education | in rostow's second stage, what is increased among people | |
146654656 | diversify | progressive leaders try to (blank) the economy in rostow's second stage | |
146654657 | infrastructure | what does the government invest in during rostow's second stage | |
146654658 | takeoff | what is rostow's third stage | |
146654659 | third | which stage of rostow's model does industrial revolution happen | |
146654660 | secondary sector | what type of jobs are more common in rostow's third stage | |
146654661 | urbanization | in rostow's third stage there is rapid (blank) | |
146654662 | drive to maturity | what is rostow's fourth stage | |
146654663 | fourth | in which stage of rostow's model is technology diffused to most industries | |
146654664 | true | true or false: in rostow's fourth stage, international trade increases | |
146654665 | fourth | in which stage of rostow's model is there a greater number of skilled/specialized workers | |
146654666 | fourth | in which stage of rostow's model does population growth slow down | |
146654667 | age of mass consumption | what is rostow's fifth stage | |
146654668 | consumer goods | in rostow's fifth stage, industrial goods move to what? | |
146654669 | false | true or false: in rostow's fifth stage, the standard of living is not quite high yet | |
146654670 | service sector | in rostow's fifth stage, secondary sector jobs move to (blank) jobs | |
146654671 | true | true or false: the criticism of rostow's model is that not every country develops in the same way |
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