Fundamentals of Agriculture
This is the practice of planting and harvesting domesticated plants and raising domesticated animals for food?
What is agriculture?
This climate type, located 20 degrees north and south of the Equator, is considered excellent for agriculture due to abundant sun and rain.
What is tropical?
In agriculture, this is the end result of inputs put into the land to grow crops and livestock.
What are outputs?
This specific financial factor, which includes transportation, dictates that more expensive goods should be produced closer to the market.
What is expense (or transportation cost)?
This specific type of shifting cultivation involves cutting down vegetation and burning it to create nutrient-rich ash fertilizer.
What is "slash and burn"?
This term refers to plants or animals that are grown or raised by humans specifically for the intentional use of consumption.
What is domesticated?
This is the short-term state of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
In intensive agriculture, farmers use a high amount of these to maximize their crop or livestock production.
What are inputs?
This is the full name - NO ACRONYMs - for the process of manipulating of the genetic makeup of plants and animals.
This practice involves growing crops on a piece of land until nutrients are depleted, then moving to a new area for 1–2 years.
What is shifting cultivation?
This is the official term used to describe the animals raised for agricultural purposes.
What is livestock?
This climate type is characterized by year-round average temperatures of about 75°F, abundant rain, and mild winters.
What is moderate?
In this agricultural system, most crops are grown to feed livestock, whose manure is then used to fertilize the crops.
What is mixed crop/livestock agriculture?
This physical quality of a product determines how close it must be grown to the city center; the higher it is, the closer it must be.
What is perishability?
Shifting cultivation is most commonly practiced in these type of climate regions.
What is tropical?
What is subsistence farming?
Agriculture is difficult in this climate type due to very little rain and extreme heat caused by low elevation or the "valley effect."
What is arid or desert?
This type of intensive commercial agriculture involves small-scale farms that focus on fruits and vegetables, often using greenhouses.
What is market gardening?
This German farmer originated his famous spatial theory in 1826.
Who is Johann Heinrich von Thünen?
This is an imaginary line that divides the northern and southern hemisphere that greatly affects climate and agriculture.
What is the equator?
This is the name of the local commercial farm we learned about in class that grows vegetables for people in the Downtown Las Vegas area.
What is the Vegas Roots Community Garden?