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| 9195110001 | 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 | |
| 9195110002 | Cash Crops | Planting large amounts of profitable crops for mass production and sell. | 1 | |
| 9195110003 | Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 2 | |
| 9195110004 | Double Cropping | Planting and harvesting a crop on a field more than once a year. | 3 | |
| 9195110005 | GMOs | Foods that have been altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as being disease resistant, increased productivity, or nutrient value | 4 | |
| 9195110006 | 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. | 5 | |
| 9195110007 | Monoculture | Dependence on a single agricultural commodity. | 6 | |
| 9195110008 | Mechanization | In agriculture, the replacement of human labor with technology or machines. | 7 | |
| 9195110009 | Primary Economy | Any economic activity pertaining to the collecting, harvesting, and obtaining of raw materials. | 8 | |
| 9195110010 | Plantation Agriculture | Raising a large amount of a 'cash crop' for local sale or export. | 9 | |
| 9195110011 | Transhumance | Movement of animal herd to cooler highland areas in the summer to warmer lowland areas in the winter. | 10 | |
| 9195110012 | 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. |  | 11 |
| 9195110013 | Green Revolution | Fully realized in the 1970s-80s, this resulted in new strains of hybrid seeds and fertilizers that dramatically increased the crop output possible from each farm. | 12 | |
| 9195110017 | Nomadism | Dry Areas Same climate as livestock ranching(commercial farms in MDCs) Marginalized land | 13 | |
| 9195110018 | Mixed livestock and grain | Raise domesticated animals and growing feed | 14 | |
| 9195110019 | Commercial Grain Farming | Wheat belt Bread-basket US Corn belt | 15 | |
| 9195110020 | 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, | 16 | |
| 9195110021 | Double cropping | Harvesting twice in one year Employ crop rotation | 17 | |
| 9195110022 | Truck Farms | Farm where farmers produce fruits for the market Use mechanization to produce large quantities of fruits and veggies | 18 | |
| 9195110023 | Agrarian | relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land | 19 | |
| 9195110024 | Agricultural Industrialization | The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors etc. - makes it easier for farmers to have higher crop yields. | 20 | |
| 9195110025 | Agricultural Landscape | The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields. | 21 | |
| 9195110026 | Agricultural Location Model | An attempt to explain the pattern of agricultural land use in terms of accessibility, costs, distance, and prices. | 22 | |
| 9195110027 | Biotechnology | A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes. | 23 | |
| 9195110028 | Cultivation Regions | Regions were there is agricultural activity. Know these specifically! (ie. Southwestern US is cattle ranching, Mediterranean is crop trees). | 24 | |
| 9195110029 | Dairy Farms | specialized in dairy products, N. America, Europe, NOT Africa, South America, Asia | 25 | |
| 9195110030 | Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. | 26 | |
| 9195110031 | 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 | 27 | |
| 9195110032 | Feedlot | a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market | 28 | |
| 9195110033 | Food Desert | An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain | 29 | |
| 9195110034 | Food Manufacturing | The processes that are used to convert raw materials into finished food products | 30 | |
| 9195110035 | Growing Season | The season in which crops grow best. Growing season can vary by location, societies rely on their growing season to which crops they can or can't grow at their latitude. | 31 | |
| 9195110036 | Hunting and Gathering | the killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance | 32 | |
| 9195110037 | Intensive Commercial Agriculture | Intensive farming in a commercial economy, crops have high yields and market value | 33 | |
| 9195110038 | 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 | 34 | |
| 9195110039 | 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 | 35 | |
| 9195110040 | Luxury Crops | Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco | 36 | |
| 9195110042 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
| 9195110043 | Organic Agriculture | Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs. | 38 | |
| 9195110044 | 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. | 39 | |
| 9195110045 | Planned Economy | a system of production of goods and services, usually consumed or distributed by a governmental agency, in quantities, at prices, and in locations determined by governmental program | 40 | |
| 9195110046 | Plant Domestication | genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention | 41 | |
| 9195110047 | Primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | 42 | |
| 9195110050 | 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. | 43 | |
| 9195110051 | Root Crops | crop that is reproduced by cultivating the roots of or the cuttings from the plants | 44 | |
| 9195110055 | Seed Crops | crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants. crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants. | 45 | |
| 9195110056 | Specialization | The concentration of the productive efforts of individuals and firms on a limited number of activities | 46 | |
| 9195110057 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 47 | |
| 9195110059 | Township and Range System | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. | 48 | |
| 9195110061 | Soil Erosion | the wearing away and removal of rock and soil particles from exposed surfaces by agents such as moving water, wind, or ice | 49 | |
| 9195184669 | Paddy | word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooded field | 50 | |
| 9195198204 | Food security | access at all times to safe and nutritious food | 51 | |
| 9195205593 | Horticulture | the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers | 52 |
