Farming Types
Agricultural History
Land Terms
Key Crops
Pot Pourri
100
The practice of growing fruits and vegetables on small private plots or shared community gardens within a city
What is Urban Farming?
100
This Agricultural Revolution involved the shifting from hunter-gathering to an agricultural-based system
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
100
This picture is referring to what term
What is Deforestation?
100
This crop is eaten by over half of the world's population
What is Rice?
100
This lake has been experiencing lower and lower water levels due to draught:
What is Lake Mead?
200
Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that require little hired labor to successfully raise crops and animals
What is Extensive Agriculture?
200
This model shows plans out the separation between different types of crops around a community or small city
What is the Von Thunen model?
200
This style of farming requires farms to carve out levels to farm in steeper areas
What is Terrace Farming?
200
Maize and Peppers are common to this hearth region
What is Central America?
200
This English Theorist proposed that the human population would outstrip agricultural production
Who is Thomas Malthus?
300
The farming practice of planting multiple crops together in the same clearing
What is Multi-Cropping?
300
This Agricultural Revolution Focused on the transition from older methods to more modern methods focusing on newer machinery
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
300
In this system farms were long thin sections of land perpendicular to river making it easier to transport goods
What is the (French) Long-Lot System?
300
This crop is key for the production of ethanol
What is corn?
300
This type of agricultural style needs crop rotation as the first step
What is Shifting Cultivation?
400
The production of crops and livestock using ecological processes, natural biodiversity, and renewable resources rather than industrial practices and synthetic inputs
What is Organic Farming?
400
This Agricultural Revolution focused on more modern methods including genetic modification and new methods of fertilization
What is the Third Agricultural Revolution (Green Revolution)?
400
The method of describing land boundaries by using natural features like rivers, streams, or man-made markers like roads or stakes
What is Metes and Bounds?
400
This crop can be very draining on soil and was the primary export of the American South for over a century
What is Cotton?
400
Slash and Burn agriculture is also known as this
What is Swidden Agriculture?
500
Industrially manufactured nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, made from petroleum by-products; contains higher concentrations of nutrients for plants than natural fertilizers
What is Synthetic Fertilizer?
500
This is the Theory for how much land costs in relation to the proximity of a market or city
What is the Bid-Rent Theory?
500
This was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.
What is the passage of the Enclosure Acts?
500
This commodity would be most likely found closest to the city/market according to the Von Thunen model
What is Dairy?
500
The practice of passing down property, including farms, to the first male heirs
What is Primogeniture?