3&4 Flashcards
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What is a Clustered Settlement?
A village that may have more than one major road and housing that clusters around large public buildings.
What defines a Dispersed Settlement?
Individual farmhouses lying quite far apart.
What characterizes a Linear Settlement?
A village that follows major roads, often with one single thoroughfare lined with houses, businesses, and public buildings.
What is the Metes and Bounds system?
A system that uses physical features of local geography along with directions and distances to define and describe boundaries of land parcels.
Who designed the Township and Range land division scheme?
Thomas Jefferson.
What is a Long Lot?
Divides land into narrow parcels that extend from rivers, roads, or canals.
Define Desertification.
Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily due to human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
What is Soil Salinization?
Occurs when soil in an arid climate is made available for agricultural production using irrigation.
What does Overgrazing refer to?
Intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.
What are Terraces?
Flat surfaces or platforms cut into a sloped plane for more effective farming.
What is Deforestation?
The destruction of forest or forested areas by human or natural means.
Define Wetland.
Farmland areas in which water covers the soil.
What is Food Insecurity?
A condition in which people do not have adequate access to food.
What are Food Processing Facilities?
Industrial businesses that transform raw fruits, animals, or vegetables into foods for direct consumption or ingredients for cooking.
Define Organic Farming.
The use of natural substances rather than chemical fertilizers and pesticides to enrich the soil and grow crops.
What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
A network where members support local farms, sharing the risks and benefits of food production.
What is a Food Desert?
An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain.
Define Fair Trade.
A concept used in developing countries to help create sustainability.
What are Value Added Specialty Crops?
When farmers change the state or form of a product to increase profitability, like making jam from strawberries.
What is Aquaculture?
The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions.
Define Sustainability.
The use of Earth’s renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that ensure resource availability in the future.
What is the Eat Local Movement?
An effort to purchase locally grown food.
Define Supply Chain.
All the steps required to get a production or service to customers.
