Types of Agriculture
Type of farming where the primary goal is to grow enough crops or raise enough livestock to sell for profit.
What is Commercial Agriculture?
The large-scale removal of trees from forested areas often results in damage to the quality of the land.
What is Deforestation?
The first ring in Von Thunen's Model.
What is Dairying/Dairy Farming and Market Gardening?
A survey system that is based on landmarks in a geographic area to create the boundary.
What is Metes and Bounds?
The consumption of this commonly sold meat is forbidden and taboo within Islam and Judaism.
What is pork?
Type of farming where the primary goal is to produce enough food for the farmer and their family, rather than for sale or trade.
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
The process through which fertile land becomes increasingly arid and unproductive, in some cases, expanding deserts.
What is Desertification?
Farms run as corporations and the globalization of agriculture.
What is Agribusiness?
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What are Agribusinesses?
A survey method that creates a grid pattern by creating rectangular parcels of land using latitude and longitude.
What is Township and Range?
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What is the Township and Range Survey System?
The global movement of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Commercial animal grazing of livestock over a large area.
What is ranching?
The process when salts from water by plants remain in the soil, decreasing a plant’s ability to uptake nutrients.
What is Soil Salinization?
This theory looks at the price of land in relation to cities and urban areas, the price of land decreases the farther the land is from a city
What is Bid-rent theory?
A narrow parcel of land that traditionally connects to a waterway. (Popular in Quebec, Louisiana, and France)
What is Long lot?
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What is the Long Lot survey system?
The agricultural revolution that began by the domestication of plants and animals.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
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What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Large commercial farm in a developing country that specializes in one or two cash crops for export. (Most businesses are owned by Europeans and North Americans)
What are plantations?
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What is plantation agriculture?
These geographic features are commonly drained of all water to be used for economic or human development.
What are wetlands?
All the steps required to get a product or service to customers.
What is a supply chain?
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What are supply chains?
The process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.
What is Domestication?
Modern fertilizers and pesticides used by agribusinesses today came from this agricultural revolution.
What is the Green Revolution?
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What is the Third Agricultural Revolution?
A type of farming that involves creating “steps” that are built into a mountain or hill that can be used as farm land.
What is terrace farming?
This type of diet, which emphasizes the consumption of meat and processed foods, has an increased demand on the environment.
What is a Western-style diet?
Ownership of other businesses involved in the steps of producing a particular good.
What is Vertigal integration?
A capital intensive livestock operation in which many animals are kept in close quarters, and bred and fed in a controlled environment.
What is Factory farming?
These laws enacted during the Second Agricultural Revolution sold common land to private landowners, forcing many poor farmers to move to cities in search of work.
What are the Enclosure Acts?