Vocabulary from chapter 10 in AP Human Geography textbook (and added extras from class).
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| 1434300126 | Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. | 0 | |
| 1434300127 | Mechanization | To equip with machinery, to use machines. | 1 | |
| 1434300128 | Subsistence Agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmers family. | 2 | |
| 1434300129 | Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 3 | |
| 1434300130 | Hunting and Gathering | Group that supports itself by hunting and fishing (if possible) and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables. | 4 | |
| 1434300131 | Nomadism | To take advantage of seasonal, cyclical movements of animals. | 5 | |
| 1434300132 | First Agricultural Revolution / Neolithic Agricultural Revolution | The domestication of plants (roots at the time) 14,000 years ago. | 6 | |
| 1434300133 | Vegetative Agriculture | Direct cloning of existing plants by cutting and dividing roots. | 7 | |
| 1434300134 | Seed Agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds. Practiced by most of today's farmers. | 8 | |
| 1434300135 | Animal Domestication | The taming and adaptation of wild animals to meet the economic needs of man. | 9 | |
| 1434300136 | Shifting Cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one filed to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. | 10 | |
| 1434300137 | Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared bu slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | 11 | |
| 1434300138 | Pastoral Nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | 12 |
