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| buisness that are collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agriculture. |
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| the diffusion of farming practices from a center (hearth) across the surface of the earth. |
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| he deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber |
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| the use of genetically altered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production |
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| foods and grain from cereal and they contain starch; including: rice, wheats, oats, etc. |
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| 15th and 16th centuries; when products were carried both ways across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. |
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| when farmers and ranchers sell al of their output for money and buy their families' food at stores. |
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| the process by which fertilee land becomes desert, typically result of drought. |
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| disperesed settlement pattern |
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| where buildings in a settlement are not clustered around a particular point |
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| fencing or hedging large blocks of land |
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| for land to erode away; usually by wind or running water. |
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| land is subdivided to relativly large units |
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| extensive subsistence agriculture |
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| involves large areas of land and minimal labor per land unit.(shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism) |
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| the collection of new agricultural techniques. (1970s) |
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| villages-small clusters of buildings or in slightly larger settlements. Hamlets- grouped together. |
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| th growing or friuts, vegetables, and flowers |
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| the direct procurement of edibke plants and animals from the wild |
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| modern farming that refers to the industrial production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops |
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| land is subdivided into relatively small units |
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| intensive subsistence agriculture |
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| involves the cultivation of small land plots though great amounts of labor, and yields per unit and area and population densitites. |
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| the channeling of water to fields |
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| the process of focusing one's occupational concentration on a specific area of expertise. |
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| labor intensive agriculture |
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| a term describing industries that require a great deal of labor in terms of agriculture |
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| the general but logical attempt to explain how an economic activity is realated to the land space where goods are produced. |
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| system implemented in Quebec, Louisiana, texas, or areas of French influence, that divide the land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals |
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| Mediterranean Agriculture |
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| specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails |
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| goal to benefit the mother country by trading goods to accumulate precious metals to enrich the country. |
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| system or method of describing land, real property |
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| place where milk can be stored |
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| mixed crop and livestock farming |
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| farmers grow crops and raise livestock on the same land spread, with most of the crops fed to animals rather than to people. |
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| first historically varifiable revolution in agriculture. |
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| a member of people who move from one place to another, either with thier livestock, or subsisting on hunting and gathering. |
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| nucleated settlement pattern |
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| a settlement where buildings are clustered around a particular point. |
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| form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control |
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| extensive, treeless plains in South America |
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| form of pastoralism where livestock are herded in order to find fresh pastures on which to graze following on irregular pattern of movement. |
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| social system in which males are the primary authority figures central to social organization. |
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| refers to the practice of planting crops in large scale |
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| post-industrial societies |
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| concept describing a certain stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector. |
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| sector of an economy making direct use of natural recources. |
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| all land passes to the eldest son, resulting in large land parcels that are tended individually |
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| part of economy which typically includes services such as information generation and sharing. |
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| rectangular survey system |
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| second agricultural revolution |
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| intensified agriculture by promoting higher yields per acre and per farmer |
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| sector of economy concerned with or relating to primary industry. |
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| reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization |
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| a sowing device that precisely positions seeds in hte soil and then covers them |
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| form of agricuture, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivation for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored |
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| act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose. |
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| self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers grow food enough to feed themselves. |
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| agriculture that attempts to integrate plant and animal production practices that will protect the ecosystem over the long term |
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| is one of the three economic sectors |
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| Third agricultural revolution |
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| began in the mid-20th century and is still going on today in the firm of industrial agriculture. |
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| a region with a long growing season and humid climate and accessibility to the large markets of northeast to U.S. |
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| areas where plants existed and is much more suitable for farming |
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| assumed a flat terrain with uniform soils and no significant barriers for transportation to market. |
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| a material for making fences or walls, etc. |
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| wet(lowland) rice: found mostly in East and South Asia; type of rice planted on dry land |
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| Winter wheat area, Spring wheat area |
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| Winter- Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, where the crop is planted in the autumn. Spring- Dakota and Montana, where winters are too severe for winter wheat. |
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