Conservation
The process of tilling between rows, as opposed to the entire surface.
What is intertillage
Humans obtained food by hunting animals and foraging for edible plants
What is hunting and gathering?
Residential areas located in the outskirts of a city
The practice of persuading owners to sell properly cheaply and then reselling it at a higher price
Applying water to land to help crops and plants grow.
What is irrigation
What is pastoralism/pastoral nomadism?
The largest city in a country
What is primate city?
The process of population and economic activities shifting from the central city to its surrounding areas, leading to the growth of suburbs
A form of subsistence farming where plots of land are cultivated for a short amount of time before being abandoned and allowed to regenerate, with farmers then moving to a new plot
What is shifting cultivation?
Key organizing centers for global, economic, political, and cultural flows
A large, mass-produced house, often found in suburban areas
What is a McMansion
Growing a single crop on the same land year after year
What is monocropping?
A large area of land is used with minimal inputs to produce food for the farmer's family, rather than for sale
What is extensive subsistence-level farming?
a densely populated urban area with a well defined CBD, with surrounding suburbs
A discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities
What is redlining?
Creating levels on hilly terrain to reduce soil erosion and manage water runoff
What is terracing?
Farmers cultivate a small area of land using a high amount of labor and animal power to produce food for their own consumption
What is intensive subsistence level farming?
An urban area with a population exceeding 20 million
A rapidly growing, large suburb that has overcome the population of the city it surrounds
What is boomburg?