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| 9960771573 | Agribusiness | industrialized, corporate form of agricultural production | 0 | |
| 9960786718 | Agriculture production in the US | range livestock dominates agricultural production in the western region of country | 1 | |
| 9960801491 | Agriculture | growing crops or tending livestock for subsistence purposes and/ or for sale or exchange | 2 | |
| 9960816077 | Aquaculture | fish farming | 3 | |
| 9960831429 | Biomass | Alternative energy source that involves converting a variety of biological materials into fuel for automobiles/ engines | 4 | |
| 9960871485 | Biopharming | a particular form of biotechnology in which genes form other life forms and are inserted into a host plant | 5 | |
| 9960882651 | Biotechnology | includes all technological improvements on biological systems to either make or enhance specific agricultural goods or food products (GMO's) | 6 | |
| 9960912711 | Capital intensive vs labor intensive agriculture | Capital intensive- use of mechanical goods, including machinery, tools, vehicles. large production of agricultural goods. Labor intensive- goods use human hands in large abundance to produce a given amount of output | 7 | |
| 9960948261 | commercial agriculture | food production for sale from a farm farm goods to food processing companies rather than consumers dairy farming, fruits, vegetables, meat | 8 | |
| 9960971310 | commercial grain farming | wheat and corn in the great plains, southern Russia, and china large portion of output goes to feeding livestock | 9 | |
| 9960994378 | commercial livestock farming | livestock ranching and dairying wide spread in Australia , North America, southern Africa and Asia | 10 | |
| 9961016970 | crop rotation | rotating the sequence of crops planted in particular fields to avoid depleting nutrients in the soil | 11 | |
| 9961054869 | Deforestation | the need for fuel wood and wood resource, cutting down tropical rain forests | 12 | |
| 9961100596 | Desertification | when marginal lands are over cultivated or overgrazed, soil gets stripped of vegitation | 13 | |
| 9961117521 | economic systems | goods and services created for use of producer and his or her family producers produce goods for the goal of profit | 14 | |
| 9961137163 | environmental implications of agriculture | pesticides have harmed wildlife populations, polluted rivers, lakes, and oceans. topsoil loss, fragile soils | 15 | |
| 9961173759 | Extensive Subsistence Agriculture | Nomadic Heading(Seasonal movement of herds) and Shifting Cultivation(Slash and Burn) | 16 | |
| 9962504296 | Extensive vs Intensive Agriculture | extensive- large areas of land and minimal labor input per acre intensive-smaller plots of land with substantial amounts of labor | 17 | |
| 9962515344 | Feedlots/CAFOs | animals concentrated in small spaces and given antibiotics and other fattening grains to prepare them for slaughter. | 18 | |
| 9962531320 | Fertile Crescent | Middle East, the areas fertile soil were attributed to its location in the Euphrates, Nile, and Tigris Rivers floodplains | 19 | |
| 9962551705 | Fishing | accounts for about 15% of global protein consumption. overfishing and pollution effects fish stocks | 20 | |
| 9962563934 | Food Regime | The links that exist between food producers, food consumers, and investment/accumulation opportunities that support a dominant type of food during a particular time period. | 21 | |
| 9962585639 | Food Production vs Agriculture | Agriculture doesn't always lead to food and food is not always produced through agriculture. | 22 | |
| 9962598533 | Food Security | Refers to reliable access, at all scales, to enough food to ensure active and healthy lives. | 23 | |
| 9962631148 | Forestry | Most forest industries are in developed countries like the US, Canada, and Russia. Used for wood supply and fuel supply. | 24 | |
| 9962656611 | GMOs | Plants and animals who's DNA have been genetically modified. | 25 | |
| 9962663654 | Geothermal power | type of energy that uses heat from the interior of the earth in the form of steam, which powers turbines to create electricity | 26 | |
| 9962672339 | Globalization of agriculture | improvements in transportation and communication effecting agriculture | 27 | |
| 9962724305 | Hunting and Gathering | Before technology people survived by this. Males usually hunted and females gathered | 28 | |
| 9962736619 | Hydroelectric Power | form of energy where water turns turbines to generate electricity. | 29 | |
| 9962744063 | Industrial revolution's Effect in Agriculture | Machines made it easier to produce and harvest more food/products faster and more efficiently. | 30 | |
| 9962764766 | Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | People producing food or raising animals to provide for themselves and their families. | 31 | |
| 9962771666 | Land Survey Patterns | Log Lots: French- Houses exist on narrow lots perpendicular to a river. Metes and Bonds: English- local geography with directions and distances to define boundaries for particular price of land Township and Range: US- system dividing land and sold to customers equally | 32 | |
| 9962804220 | Local Food Production | Refers to a food production system where food are produced locally | 33 | |
| 9962807535 | Luxury Crops | Luxury food items not necessary for everyday loving and not indigenous for the areas they are exporting to | 34 | |
| 9962824498 | Maladaptive Diffusion | Diffusion of an idea or technology that works well in one are or region but is not suitable for the area it diffuses to | 35 | |
| 9962841748 | Metallic and nonmetallic minerals | if metal can be obtained cheaper mines may not develop or they may shut down temporarily nonmetallic materials are generally only mined near the site where they will be used | 36 | |
| 9962861933 | Mineral Fuels | (Coal, petroleum, and natural gas) energy generated from these is a huge economic development indicator | 37 | |
| 9962871465 | Mining and Quarrying | provides energy base for way of life existent in advanced economies, as this includes harvesting of fossil fuels | 38 | |
| 9962900411 | Mixed and Specialty Crop Farming | Truck farms or market gardens produce mixed and specialty crops; climate largely determines production. Mediterranean agriculture is also an example of this. | 39 | |
| 9962917011 | Negative Impacts of the Green revolution | plant fertilizers devastated much of local land, decreased local biodiversity, multinational organizations steered economies away form producing local consumption and towards producing specialty crops. | 40 | |
| 9962940275 | Nuclear Energy | Form of energy, nuclear reaction generates a lot of heat which is used to make tea, and is turned in turbines to make electricity. Very controversial | 41 | |
| 9962964266 | Organic Agriculture | Farming without input of artificial aids. has grown tremendously across the last couple decades | 42 | |
| 9962974216 | Origins of Agriculture | Converted people from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture societies through domestication of plants and animals | 43 | |
| 9963004758 | Pastoralism/Transhumance | -breeding and herding animals to provide humans with food, shelter, and clothing -pastoralism that involves seasonal movements of herds | 44 | |
| 9963018341 | Petroleum | Modern industrial society is heavily dependent on this. nonrenewable | 45 | |
| 9963031396 | Primary economic activities | involve direct extraction or harvesting of a resource from the land. ex: fishing, mining, forestry | 46 | |
| 9963044831 | Resource Terminology | Natural Resource- naturally occurring minerals that humans use when beneficially towards economy Renewable- can be replenished quick enough to not deplete the resource Nonrenewable- Can not be replenished quick enough to not deplete the resource | 47 | |
| 9963071826 | Rural Settlement Types | Dispersed- widespread farms, relatively isolated from neighbors Nucleated-settlements contain a number of families living closer together with fields surrounding settlement | 48 | |
| 9963082582 | Rural Settlement | Sparsely settles areas moved from the influence of larger cities. Economy is usually based on primary activities. | 49 | |
| 9963099509 | Shifting Cultivation/ Slash-and-Burn/ Swidden | -rotating the fields to maintain soil fertility -cutting and burning the old crops to improve the quality of nutrients in the soil -land that has been cleared for cultivation | 50 | |
| 9963114131 | The Boserup Hypothesis | Better soil fertility can accommodate growing populations. More food for more people | 51 | |
| 9963129526 | The Green Revolution | 1970s-1980s: Increased food availability to rapidly growing populations by better technology, techniques, and communications. | 52 | |
| 9963144025 | Transhumance | Pastoral practice of seasonal migration of livestock | 53 | |
| 9963153261 | Transportation and Agriculture | industrial revolution and commercial agriculture Subsistence remains subsistence because lack of transportation techniques technology has helped transportation and agriculture | 54 | |
| 9963167399 | Tropical Plantations | Crops that grow well in tropical climates are grown and mostly exposed and barley consumed by local consumers | 55 | |
| 9963178150 | Urban Sprawl and Agriculture | Sprawl does not benefit agriculture because it rids the land of space for food plots. However selling land in some cases is more profitable than farming it. | 56 | |
| 9963187713 | Urban Agriculture | Establishment of agriculture practices in or very near a city. | 57 | |
| 9963196614 | Wind Farms | areas of land use giant wind turbines that convert wind energy into renewable energy source. | 58 | |
| 9963203307 | von Thünen Model |  | 59 | |
| 9963207682 | von Thünen results | predicts agricultural patterns well. model can be altered to account for transportation and competing markets | 60 | |
| 9963218143 | Agglomeration | Grouping together of many firms, in similar industry, in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources. | 61 |
