Agriculture Flashcards
(18 cards)
Mediterranean climate
dry and hot summer cool and rainy winter. (Australia)
Tropical climate
warm humid lots of rain (Amazon rainforest)
market gardening
small production of fruits and veggies (bigger than a garden)
plantation
crops transported for sale (subtropical and tropical)
mixed crop/livestock
feeding the food you grow to the animals you herd
shifting cultivation
slash and burn
nomadic heading/pastoral nomadism
following the animals you herd
agribusiness
the business side of farming (cotton mill)
agricultural revolution
farming that improves quickly (cotton mill)
second agricultural revolution
making domestication and agriculture easier and better
cash crop
crop you sell for cash
Columbian exchange
exchanging crops and livestock between Africa usa and europe
dairy farm
farms that grow dairy
green revolution
higher yield (more crops) and fast growing crops (Increased technologies, pesticides, and fertilizers)
herbicide
chemicals to kill plants
intensive subsistence agriculture
less land lots of labor to sustain a family
monocropping
growing the same crop
pesticide
chemicals to kill insects/pests