Chapter 11

Question 1

the production of crops without the use of synthetically and industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers

Answer 1

Organic agriculture

Question 2

the deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food feed and fiber

Answer 2

Agriculture

Question 3

involve those products closest to the ground, such as agriculture, ranching, hunting and gathering, fishing, forstery, mining, and quarrying.

Answer 3

Primary economic activities

Question 4

activities that take a primary product and manufacture it- change it into something else such as toys, ships, processed foods, chemicals, and buildings

Answer 4

Secondary economic activities

Question 5

part of the service industry, connecting producers to customers and facilitating commerce and trade. (bankers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, salespeople, clerks, and secretaries

Answer 5

Tertiary economic activities

Question 6

dividing economic activities into those concerned with information or the exchange of money or goods and those tied to research or higher education

Answer 6

quaternary and quinary economic activities

Question 7

plants that are reproduced by cultivating seeds

Answer 7

Seed Crops

Question 8

growing only enough food to survive

Answer 8

subsistence agriculture

Question 9

occurs in tropical and subtropical lands where traditional farmers had to abandon plots of lands after the soil became infertile

Answer 9

Shifting Cultivation

Question 10

A type of shifting cultivation

Answer 10

slash and burn

Question 11

systems circle around a pivot

Answer 11

Center-pivot irrigation systems

Question 12

the method of land survey through which landownership and property lines are defined

Answer 12

cadastral system-

Question 13

also called the public land survey this system was used by the US land office Survey to parcel out land west of the Appalachian Mountains. Divides land into rectangular parcels

Answer 13

rectangular survey system

Question 14

designed to facilitate the movement of Indians evenly across farmlands of the USA interior and imposed a rigid grid pattern on the land

Answer 14

township and range system

Question 15

Canadian system that was adopted along the eastern seaboard in which natural features were used to demarcate irregular parcels of land

Answer 15

Metes and bounds survey

Question 16

implemented in parts of Quebec, Louisiana, and Texas where land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals

Answer 16

Longlot survey system

Question 17

all land passes to the eldest son (German system)

Answer 17

Primogeniture

Question 18

dependence on a single agricultural commodity (an impact of colonial agriculture

Answer 18

Monoculture

Question 19

classifies the worlds climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation

Answer 19

Köppen Climate Classification System

Question 20

areas with similar climatic characteristics

Answer 20

Climatic regions-

Question 21

when cash crops are grown on large estates

Answer 21

Plantation agriculture

Question 22

tea, cacao, coffee, tobacco

Answer 22

Luxury Crops

Question 23

o the raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and by products

Answer 23

Livestock Ranching

Question 24

specialized farming that occurs where the dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails: along the shores of the Mediterranean sea, California, Oregon, Central Chile, South Africa, Southwester and southern Australia. Grapes, olives, citrus fruits, figs, veggies, dates.

Answer 24

Mediterranean Agriculture

Question 25

the businesses that provide a wide array of goods and services to support the agricultural industry

Answer 25

Agribusiness

Question 26

dates back as far as the 1930s when agricultural scientists in the American Midwest began experimenting with technologically manipulated seed variations to increase crop yields

Answer 26

The Third Agricultural Revolution/The Green Revolution