Vocabulary Agriculture

Question 1

aquaculture

Answer 1

use of river segments or artificial bodies of water for the raising and harvesting of food products including fish

Question 2

boserup thesis

Answer 2

growth independently forces a conversation from extensive to intensive substance agriculture

Question 3

commercial economy

Answer 3

a system of production of goods and services for exchange in competitive markets where price and availability are determined by supple and demand forces

Question 4

economic geography

Answer 4

the branch of systematic geo. concerned with how people support themselves with the spatial patterns of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, and with the areal variation of economic activities

Question 5

extensive agriculture

Answer 5

yields a large amount of output per acre through less intensive farming

Question 6

extractive industry

Answer 6

industries involved in the activities of prospecting, exploring, developing and producing for non-regenerative natural resources from the earth

Question 7

gathering industry

Answer 7

primary activities involving the subsistence or commercial harvesting of renewable natural resources of land or water

Question 8

green revolution

Answer 8

the development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing word to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe

Question 9

intensive agriculture

Answer 9

a form of subsistence agriculture that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots to land to maximize crop yields

Question 10

columbian exchange

Answer 10

where products were carried both ways across the Atlantic and pacific ocean during colonization

Question 11

market economy

Answer 11

an economy in which decisions regarding investment, production, and distribution are based on supply and demand, and prices of goods and services are determined in a free price system

Question 12

maximum sustainable yield

Answer 12

largest ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, the surplus required to maintain natures services at the same or increasing level over time

Question 13

natural resource

Answer 13

any natural material that is used by humans

Question 14

nomadic herding

Answer 14

the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals

Question 15

nonrewable resource

Answer 15

a resource that is a finite supply and capable of being exhausted

Question 16

planned economy

Answer 16

economic system in which a single agency makes all decisions about the production and allocation of goods and services

Question 17

plantation

Answer 17

a large, frequently foreign owned piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export crop

Question 18

primary activity

Answer 18

concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment

Question 19

quaternary activity

Answer 19

concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of data and Capitol

Question 20

Quinary activity

Answer 20

require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill

Question 21

renewable resource

Answer 21

can be replaced without a long time wait

Question 22

resource

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a substance in the environment that is useful to people. is economically and technologically feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use

Question 23

secondary activity

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processing of products and assembling raw minerals

Question 24

shifting cultivation

Answer 24

a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another

Question 25

subsistence economy

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any farm economy in which most crops are grown for nearly exclusive family or local consumption

Question 26

tertiary activity

Answer 26

provides us with transportation, communication, and utilities

Question 27

tragedy of the commons

Answer 27

class of social trap that involve a conflict over resources between individual interests and the common good

Question 28

truck farm

Answer 28

a farm which use mechanizations to produce large quantities of fruits or vegetables for the market.

Question 29

usable reserves

Answer 29

mineral deposits that have been identified and can be recovered at current prices and with current technology

Question 30

van thunen model

Answer 30

an agricultural model that spatially describes agriculture activity in term of rent. activities that require intensive cultivation and cannot be transported over great distances. pay higher rent to be close to the market conversely, activities that are more extensive, with goods that are easy to transport, are located farther from the market where rent is less.

Question 31

agriculture

Answer 31

the raising of animals or the growing of crops on tended land to obtain food for primary consumption by a farmers family or for sale of the farm