Unit 6: rural and urban use vocabulary Flashcards
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Agrarian
way of life that depends on farming for sustenance
Animal Domestication
the process whereby a population of animals through a process of
selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control
Agriculture
the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
Crop Rotation
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
Aquaculture
thename given to all farming and rearing of fish and marine plantsthat does not fall under the category of fishing
Collective Farm
asystem of agricultural organizationwhere as farms laborers are not
compensated via wages. rather, the workers receive a share of the farm’s net productivity
Double Cropping
Growing more than one crop a year on the same land
Extractive Industry
is made up of mining, quarrying, dredging, oil and gas extraction
industries
Feedlot
Places where livestock are concentrated in very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grainsthat prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to factory farms
Green Revolution
the development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe
Planned Economy
economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions about the production and allocation of goods and services
“Tragedy of the Commons”
theidea that people will take and use resources to their own
advantage, not stopping to think about the future and other people. This is due to greed, new technological advances, overpopulation, high demand, and poor management.
Sustainable Yield
the amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested regularly
without reducing the future supply
Megalopolis
formed when when urban expansion results in an overlap in development by cities in close proximity to one another, resulting in a network of high-density human settlements
Zoning
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
Infrastructure
Thebasic structure of servicesinstallations and facilities needed to support industrial agricultural and other economic development included are transport and communications along with water power and other public utilities
Urbanization
The movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities- a major force in every geographic realm today, also when expanding cities absorb the rural countryside and transforms it into suburbs
Suburb
residential communitieslocated outside of city centers
Metropolitan Area
an urban area consisting of one or more whole county unites, usually
containing several urbanized areas, or suburbs, that all act together as a coherent economic whole
Commercialization
The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to
residents and tourists alikein terms of economic activity
Commuter Zone
theoutermost zone of theconcentric zone modelthat represents people who choose to live in residential surburbia and take a daily commute into the CBD to work
Concentric Zone Model -
A model on the internal structure of cities in which social groups are
arranged spatially in a series of rings. The lower class lives closer to the center and the upper class lives farther away from the center
Central Business District (CBD)
is where a large amount of businesses are located. In the
concentric zone model,it is located in the center of the city. Houses and apartments are less common in the CBD and tend to be more prevalent outside of it.
Ethnic Neighborhood
an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic
background
