Agriculture
What is the vocab word for this definition: modifying the environment to raise plants or animals for food or other uses’
Agriculture
This region in the Middle East, named for its shape and rich soil, is where the revolution began.
Fertile Crescent
When a city has a disproportionately high number of people living in poverty without access to fresh, healthy food, the area is known as this.
The original CBD of a city stands for this three-word term.
Center Business District
While the First Revolution led to the rise of civilizations, the Second and Third Revolutions led to this specific trend in global population.
Population Explosion
Nomadic pastoralists frequently move across vast landscapes to secure water and grazing land for these three common types of livestock.
Sheep, goats and cattle
This process involves changing wild plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.
Domestication
These are the sprawling suburban areas that exist on the outskirts of a larger city, often containing their own office complexes and shopping malls.
Edge Cities
This economic sector involves the provision of services, such as retail, banking, and education.
Tertiary Sector
Many periphery countries see the growth of these—illegal housing settlements built on land the occupants do not own.
Squatter Settlements
This type of climate produces certain fruits, vegetables, and grains such as grapes, olives, figs, dates, tomatoes, zucchini, wheat and barley.
Mediterranean climate
This legal process in England consolidated small landholdings into larger, fenced-in farms.
Enclosure Movement
This model, developed by Ernest Burgess, suggests that a city grows outward from a central area in a series of five rings.
Concentric Zone Model
According to Alfred Weber’s Least Cost Theory, this is the most important factor in determining where a factory should be located.
Transportation Costs
This three-word composite statistic, created by the UN, measures a country's development based on health (life expectancy), education, and standard of living (GNI per capita).
Human Development Index (HDI)
As part of the Columbian Exchange, this "New World" crop was brought to Europe and eventually became a staple for the survival of the poor in Ireland and Russia.
Potato
To support massive growth, the Green Revolution relied heavily on chemical pesticides and these soil enhancers.
Fertilizers
This occurs when financial institutions draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within those boundaries, historically targeting minority neighborhoods.
Redlining
This term refers to the clustering of similar industries in the same area to share infrastructure and a specialized labor pool.
Agglomeration
This survey system, used in the United States Midwest, creates a "checkerboard" landscape of square 1-mile sections.
Township and Range System
Often found in LDCs (Less Developed Countries), this type of agriculture is practiced primarily to provide food for the farmer’s own family, with little to no surplus for sale.
Subsistence Agriculture
The 1st Ag Revolution in the Americas was centered on this trio of crops.
Maize (Corn), Beans, and Squash
This planning movement promotes walkable neighborhoods, a mix of housing and jobs, and "smart growth" to combat urban sprawl.
New Urbanism
This model argues that the economic development of LDCs (Less Developed Countries) is limited by their political and economic ties to MDCs (More Developed Countries).
Dependency Theory/World Systems Theory
There are this many specific Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations to be achieved by the year 2030.
17 Goals