Ap Flashcards

8849321999	Nonvectored Diseases	Infectious diseases transmitted by direct contact between host and victim.	0
8849322000	vectored diseases	a disease carried from one host to another by an intermediate host	1
8849322001	Truck farm	a farm where vegetables are grown for market	2
8849322002	Transhumance	The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.	3
8849322003	trajedy of the commons	common resources can be overused	4
8849322004	Sustainability	The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained	5
8849322005	survey patterns	lines laid out by surveyors prior to the settlement of an area	6
8849322006	Cadastral System	survey system that determines the value, extent, and ownership of land for purposes of taxation.	7
8849322007	intensive agriculture	yields a large amount of output per acre through concentrated farming (uses a small amount of land)	8
8849322008	extensive agriculture	An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area.	9
8849322009	subsistence agriculture	level of farming in which a person raises only enough food to feed his or her family	10
8849322010	Nucleated settlement	a compact closely packed settlement sharply demarcated from adjoining farmland	11
8849322011	Rural settlement	Sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities	12
8849322012	Primogeniture	A system of inheritance in which the eldest son in a family received all of his father's land.	13
8849322013	organic agriculture	crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers	14
8849322014	Monoculture	cultivation of a single crop, usually in a large area	15
8849322015	Mediterranean agriculture	specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails	16
8849322016	luxury crops	Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco	17
8849322017	Local food movement	collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies	18
8849322018	Horticulture	the art or practice of garden cultivation and management.	19
8849322019	Pastoralism	A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals	20
8849322020	shifting cultivation	a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another	21
8849322021	Epidemic	A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.	22
8849322022	Pandemic	Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population	23
8849322023	endemic	native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field	24
8849322024	economy of scale	the cost per unit of weight decreases as the size of the shipment increases	25
8849322025	Chemical Farming	Increased use of fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.	26
8849322026	quinary economic activity	require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill	27
8849322027	Quaternary Economic Activities	Economic activities concerned with research, information gathering, and administration.	28
8849322028	tertiary economic activity	Service jobs - high level: bankers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, low level: retail, fast food,	29
8849322029	secondary economic activity	when people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products of greater value	30
8849322030	primary economic activity	an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly, such as fishing or mining	31
8849322031	debt for nature swap	Forgiveness of international debt in exchange for nature protection in developing countries	32
8849322032	Desertification	The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid, unproductive, and desert-like.	33
8849322033	Commodity chains	A chain of activities from the manufacturing to the distribution of a product.	34
8849322034	Biotechnology	The manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful products.	35
8849322035	Aquaculture	The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions	36
8849322036	Agribusiness	agriculture conducted on commercial principles, especially using advanced technology.	37