This Revolution is the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement.
What is the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?
100
A system for classifying the world’s climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation?
What is the Koppen Climatic Classification System
100
The agricultural model that shows the relationship between crops grown and their proximity to the market
What is the Von Thunen Model?
100
This is the approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
What is organic farming?
100
This is the Act where wealthy lords were allowed to purchase public fields neglecting small-scale farmers, which caused the migration of men looking for jobs in the cities since more productive enclosed farms resulted in only a few up for the job for farming (not many farmers were needed).
What is the Enclosure Act?
200
This is the Revolution where the reliance of sun turned into the reliance of fossil fuels and technology because farmers started using more machinery in many more aspects in farming.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
200
large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology
What is commercial agriculture?
200
Methods of supplying lands with water by artificial means (e.g. pipes, sprinklers, ditches, streams)
What is irrigation?
200
This occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.
What is overgrazing?
200
The production system based on large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation that specializes in one or two crops (usually cash crops); important crops include : cotton, sugarcane, coffee, rubber, tobacco
What is a plantation?
300
This Revolution is more about Genetic Modified Organisms and renovation of agricultural practices while benefiting other countries in need of increased food production.
What is the Green Revolution?
300
In _____ subsistence farming, farmers must expend a relatively large amounts of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
In _____ subsistence farming, there is use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
What is intensive/extensive?
300
Main agricultural activity in the northeast US
What is dairying?
300
This is the alteration of DNA/genetic engineering on crops and livestock to increase production levels.
What is biotechnology?
300
Rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting soil; it is used in wet rice not dominant areas
What is crop rotation?
400
This refers to the business of farming though it is not correlated directly with actual farms.
What is agribusiness?
400
Roots of modern agriculture traced to colonial empires established by______ in the1800s-1900s
What are European powers?
400
Most workers on the field were _______, but _______ owned the land.
What is women/men?
400
This is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies, also known as “100 mile diet”
What are Eat-local-food Movements?
400
This is the decline in soil quality caused by its improper use, usually for agricultural, pastoral, industrial or urban purposes
What is soil degradation?
500
These are the processes that made large commercial farming and agribusiness possible.
What is intensive farming, farm machinery, reaper, cultivator,irrigation, etc.?
500
Major changes in _____ and______especially refrigerators, have further intertwined agricultural production and food processing regions around the world
What is transportation/food storage?
500
The art/science of managing forests tree plantations, and related natural resources; products used for construction and fuel
What is forestry?
500
This requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
What is fair trade?
500
The type of material that cotton is in competion with and the material that rubber is in competition with (2 answers)