Conservation
The practice of cultivating or tilling the soil between rows of crops
What is Intertillage?
A subsistence lifestyle where humans obtain food by hunting animals and foraging for plants?
What is Hunting and Gathering
A very large city, typically with more than 10 million people, and a density of 2000 people per mile
What is Megacity?
A property that has the presence or potential to be a hazardous waste, pollutant or contaminant
What is Brownfield?
The artificial application of water to land to support plant growth
What is Irrigation?
A form of agriculture that involves the raising and herding of livestock for the production of food, fiber, and other products
Residential area situated on the outskirts of a city or town
What is Suburb?
The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas into the surrounding rural land
What is Urban Sprawl?
Agricultural practices that minimize soil disturbance, like no-till farming
Rice cultivation that involves growing rice in flooded fields where the plants are submerged in water for most of the growing season
What is Wet Rice Farming?
A collection of adjacent or overlapping metropolitan areas that merge into a continuous urban region
What is Megalopolis?
Illegal practice of refusing to make mortgage loans or issue insurance policies in specific areas for reasons other than economic qualifications of applicants
What is Redlining?
The practice of growing different crops in a field over a sequence of seasons to maintain soil fertility and reduce pest/weed problems
What is Crop Rotation?
A farming system where the primary goal is to produce enough food for the farmer and their family to live on, with little or no surplus for sale or trade
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
A large urban area or network of cities that typically exceeds 20 million residents
What is Metacity?
A complex urban process where deteriorating neighborhoods undergo transformation through an influx of more affluent residents
What is Gentrification?
The agricultural practice of creating flat, stepped areas on hillsides or mountains to increase the amount of arable land and manage soil reosion
A large-scale production of crops and livestock, primarily for sale and profit, rather than for personal consumption
What is Commercial Agriculture?
A major urban center that exerts significant influence on the global economy, culture, and politics, and acts as a hub of trade and cultural exchange
What is World City?
The process by which people move from urban areas to the outskirts or suburbs
What is Suburbanization?