ap human agriculture vocab Flashcards
(31 cards)
Mass production, domestic or commercial, scale of farming?
purpose of farming
How many farmers are working in a country to make food?
Percentage of farmers in the labor force
What kind of tools do these farmers use? Are these tools large scale and modern or are labor intensive and require work
Use of machinery
How big is the farm?
Size of the farms
How are other businesses attached to commercial farming. Equipment companies, fertilizer companies, food processing, packaging.
Relationship to other businesses
- Farmers clearing land for planting (slash and burn)
- Types of crops farmers grow over the years
Shifting cultivation
Form of substistence agriculture based on herding of domestic animals
Pastrol Nomadism
Farmers expanding a large among of effort to produce the maximum yield from a parcel of land. Land is limited in most cases.
Intensice Substance Agriculture
Intinsive farming that produces two harvest in one year.
Double cropping
The practice of the rotating use of different field from crop to crop each year to avoid exhaugting the soil.
Crop rotation
- Mixed crop and livestock farming
- Dairy farming
- Grain farming
- Livestock ranching
- Meditteranean Agriculture
- Commercial gardening and fruit farming
- Plantation farming
Agriculture in Developed countries
- Allows for seasonal intisinve work
- Crop rotation system
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Example corn and pigs
Mixed crop and livestock
- Located near urban areas
- Located in the milkshed region
- Largest example- New Zeland (5% liquid milk)
Dairy farming
- Use of seeds from various grasses
- Ex- Wheat, barley, corn, rice
Grain farming
Commerical grasing of livestock over an extensive area. Mostly for beef in the US.
Livestock Ranching
- Exist primarily in the land that borders the Mediterranean Sea
- *Farmers in chile, California, Southwest Australia
- Located on the western coast of the continent
- Western prevaling winds provide moisture and moderate temperature*
Mediterranean Agricuture
Practiced primarily in the United Stated is referred to as “truck farming”
Commercail gardening and fruit farming
- the final form of commercail agriculture
- Practiced primarily in LDCs
- Products are primarily sold in MDCs
- Plantations are owned by companies in MDCs
- Ex- bannanas, cocao, coffee, sugar cane
Plantation Farming
Deliberate modification of earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Agriculture
The system of commercial farming found in the United States and other relatively developed countires
Agribusiness
human actions are causing land to deteriorate to a desertlike condition
Desertification
The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during 1970s an d1980s
green revolution
which is the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers- and tree crops form the commercial base of the Mediterranean farming
Horticulture
ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling
Milk Shed
