Basic Concepts
Agricultural Revolutions
Types of Agriculture
Other Terms
Picture This
100
The cultivation of plants and raising animals for sustenance or economic gain
What is agriculture?
100
The type of country that would typically have gone through the Green Revolution
What is developed country?
100
The production of food primarily for sale off the farm
What is commercial agriculture?
100
Describes the various stages involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of a particular product
What is a commodity chain?
100
This image demonstrates the process by which wild animals adapt for human use.
What is domestication?
200
The place where a plant or animal was domesticated for the first time
What is an agricultural hearth?
200
This revolution introduced improved tools, crop rotation, and increased food production
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
200
The production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family
What is subsistence agriculture?
200
Produce and other ingredients are grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, genetically modified organisms; animals are raised without antibiotics or growth hormones
What is organic?
200
This type of agriculture uses modern technology and machinery, pesticides and herbices, and often practices monocropping on a large scale.
What is commercial agriculture?
300
Adapting wild plants and animals for people to use
What is domestication?
300
The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970s and 1980s
What is the Green Revolution?
300
Specializing in growing one or two crops for maximum efficiency, leading to higher yields
What is monocropping?
300
The amount of food produced per unit of land
What is yield?
300
This type of agriculture is practiced on a small scale to feed the farmer, their family, and the local community.
What is subsistence agriculture?
400
This could cause a person to eat less than what they want, to lose weight, and to have a greater chance of having health problems
What is food insecurity?
400
This event "mechanized" farming in the developed world so that today, nearly all parts of farming in the developed world uses machinery
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
Farming today as a business beacuse most farms now control, not only food production, but also the process and distribution of the food product
What is agribusiness?
400
When irrigation leaves behind salts that make soil less fertile
What is soil salinization?
400
This image depicts the process by which products travel from field to plate.
What is commodity chain?
500
An area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food
What is a food desert?
500
This revolution marked the shift from hunting and gathering to farming
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
500
The idea that mass producing a crop is cheaper and more efficient
What is economies of scale?
500
Clearing forests to create farmland is known as this
What is deforestation?
500
This image symbolizes what term related to food insecurity (not having access to food to sustain a healthy, active lifestyle).
What is a food desert?