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Agriculture Flashcards

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Market competition is the primary force shaping the production patterns

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Commercial economy

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Increased agricultural productivity due to improvements in seeds and land management techniques

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Green Revolution

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Typified by large wheat farms and livestock ranching

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Extensive commercial agriculture

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And pulling large amounts of capital or neighbor per unit, I Propio age, and high market value per unit of land

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Intensive commercial agriculture

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Self-sufficiency, low production per acre, and low population densities

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Extensive subsistence agriculture

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Self-sufficiency, high production per acre, and high population densities

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Intensive subsistence agriculture

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The maximum rate of the use of a resource that will not impair its ability to be renewed

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Maximum sustainability yield

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Materials that can be consumed and then restored

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Renewable resource

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Little exchange of goods and only limited need for market

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Subsistence economy

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The wandering but controlled movement of livestock

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Nomadic herding

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Government agencies regulate quantities produced and locational patterns of production

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Planned economy

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Naturally occurring materials that are perceived to be useful and necessary for the human population

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Resource

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Materials that are present finite amounts and cannot be replaced

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Nonrenewable resources

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Abandoning plots wants their fertility has declined

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Shifting cultivation

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Eventual depletion of a resource in areas of common property due to the absence of collective controls

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Tragedy of the commons

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The 4 to 16 miles of air above the earth surface

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Atmosphere

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Major communities of plants and animals occupying extensive areas of earth surface

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Biomes

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The thin film of air water and earth in which we live

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Biosphere

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Self contained, self-regulating, and interact and communities adapted to local combinations of climate, topography, Soil, and drainage conditioning

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Ecosystems

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The totality of things that in any way affect an organism

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Environment

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The introduction of waste into the atmosphere that cannot be disposed of by natural recycling processes

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Environmental pollution

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The surface and subsurface waters and oceans, rivers, ice, glaciers, and groundwater

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Hydrosphere

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The uppermost solid layer of earth

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Lithosphere

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Sulfuric acid and nitrogen oxides formed by the burning of fossil feels combined with atmospheric conditions

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Acid rain

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The indiscriminate form of massive clearing of the tropical rain forestconducted in order to expand agriculture, mining, or urban activities

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Deforestation

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Expansion of arid areas resulting from Deforstation, overgrazing, and overpopulation

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Desertification

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Slow, continuous warning of the atmosphere resulting from the burning of fossil fuels

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Greenhouse effect

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Always that pose an immediate or long-term human health risk or endanger the environment

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Hazardous waste

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The decrease in solar energy received at the earths surface caused by the clouds as well as solid and liquid particles that radiate the energy back in the space

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Icebox effects

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The reduction of this and atmospheric layer caused in part by pollution from the CFCs

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Ozone depletion

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The process of removal of soil particles from the ecosystem, usually by wind or running water; this process is accelerated when vegetation is cleared

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Soil erosion

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Materials that can cause death or serious injury to humans and animals

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Toxic waste

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The use of many buildings for a variety of purposes

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Functional differentiation

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The smallest cluster of houses and buildings

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HamletsGerman system – land is passed onto the oldest son

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Germans system – land is passed onto the eldest son

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Primogeniture

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An African corral

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Kraal

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Tea, cacao, coffee and tobacco

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Luxury crops

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The transformation of farms into corporate like units

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Agribusiness

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Crops produced without the use of industrially produce pesticides and fertilizers

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Organic agriculture

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A type of agriculture found in the tropics and a legacy of colonialism

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Plantation agriculture

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Periodic movement of livestock to seasonal areas

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Transhumance

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Type of shifting cultivation found mostly in tropics

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Swidden

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When housing forms to spoil image over practicality

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Maladaptive diffusion

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Areas such as new England, middle Atlantic and southern house styles

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Folk housing regions

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Specializes in grapes, olives, figs, citrus fruit, and dates

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Mediterranean

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Trending of livestock of various types

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Pastoralism

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Concerned with the rebuilding of diffuse buildings

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Domestic architecture

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The cadastral system used to survey most of the land west of the appellations in a rectangular system

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Township and range

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Ubiquitous and mostly around urban areas

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Dairy farming

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Deliberate tending of crops and livestock

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Agriculture

50
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Houses built from poles and sticks in Africa

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Wattle

51
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The European version of circular village

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Rundling

52
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Pattern of settlement that delineates property lines

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Cadastral system

53
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Who’s beaver did macauley pork

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