Settlements
Typically, there are a number of separate farmsteads scattered throughout the area
What is a dispersed settlement?
agriculture conducted on commercial principles, especially using advanced technology.
What is agribusiness
growing items such as corn, wheat, rye, and others, including sorghums
What is Grain farming?
tract of land that spans what is now Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Cypress in the Middle East
What is the Fertile Crescent
the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.
What is animal domestication?
a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line
What is a linear settlement?
the main objective is to generate profit by maximizing yields and efficiently utilizing resources.
What is commercial agriculture?
is a class of agriculture for the long-term production of milk, which is processed for the eventual sale of a product
What is dairy farming?
an early hearth of domestication of plants and animals found on the between India and Afghanistan
What is the Indus River Valley?
grown without the use of synthetic chemicals, such as human-made pesticides and fertilizers, and does not contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
What is organic food?
a rural settlement where a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings.
What is a clustered settlement?
a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.
What is intensive agriculture?
the practice of raising animals for their products
What is livestock farming?
The region that includes China, in the fertile valleys of the Yangtze River. From there it spread eastwards to Korea and Japan and southwards. One of the agricultural hearts.
What is Southeast Asia?
the condition of not having access to sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality, to meet one's basic needs.
What is a food insecurity?
Linear settlements are usually found where?
What is along a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal?
system of crop cultivation using small amounts of labor and capital in relation to area of land being farmed
What is extensive agriculture?
An example is the Tibetan Plateau herd goats, sheep, and yaks, moving them from place to place with the changing of the seasons.
What is Pastoral nomadism?
What are the 4 agricultural hearths?
Fertile Crescent, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica.
a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district increases
What is bid-rent theory?
Clustered settlements are found where?
What is around natural resources, such as water sources or fertile land, or around economic opportunities, such as transportation corridors or natural resource extraction?
when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings
What is subsistence agriculture?
In North America, this might involve one farmer working full-time on two acres. Most work is done with hand and light power tools, and perhaps a small tractor. Some 20 different crops are planted throughout the season.
What is an example of market gardening?
Around 7,000 years ago, agriculture emerged in _____, including the domestication of maize, beans, and squash, causing major changes in the plants that people cultivated.
What is mesoamerica?
Sometimes referred to as the Green Revolution
What are the Third Agricultural Revolution?