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Final Jeopardy
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A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. Because of the imprecise nature of this system of surveying, the U.S. Land Office Survey abandoned the technique in favor of the rectangular survey system.
Metes and bounds
600
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What type of settlement pattern are you most likely to find on ranching lands in the Western U.S. in places such as rural Colorado?
600
What survey method and settlement pattern is this?
Long Lots = Survey method and
Linear = Settlement
600
Laws that fenced lands that were previously owned by villages and consolidated them to be owned by individuals. It led to more production, but caused poorer farmers to lose power
Enclosure Acts
900
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is the agricultural practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land, in the absence of rotation through other crops or growing multiple crops on the same land
Example? Impact?
900
limited access to fresh nutritious foods - low income neighborhoods where consumers have little access to medium and large grocery stores
Food Desert
900
Excessive irrigation and GMOs have helped feed certain areas of the world but as populations grow desertification tends to happen which leads to other problems. This area of the world on the fringes of the Sahara desert for example has seen large amounts of desertification.
Sahel
900
Alternative to international free trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
Fair Trade
1200
•Something from the primary sector that can be, and is often bought and sold between countries
•Two most widely traded _____________ in the world???
Commodity. Coffee and Oil
1200
•A change in the physical state or form of the product (such as milling wheat into flour or making strawberries into jam).
•The production of a product in a manner that enhances its value (such as organically produced products).
Value-added specialty crop
1200
the _______________________ revolution is the first large scale urbanization seen in humanity. Why?
second agricultural revolution.
Fewer farmers. Move to cities. Factory jobs
1200
approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs. Usually this is a sustainable form of agriculture
Organic Agriculture
1500
where more than one crop is grown in the same space at the same time, is the alternative to monoculture.
Polyculture
1500
A rooftop garden in NYC would be an example of
Urban Farming
1500
The most important impact of the Green Revolution?
One huge drawback?
Food! = Population
bunch of stuff :) (Pollution, loss of diversity, cooperate control of ag, loss of family farms and competition, and more)
1500
________is essentially an organized network of labor and production processes, which starts with the extraction or production of raw materials and concludes with the transportation of the finished product/commodity to the market.
Commodity Chains
1500
excessive irrigation in dry-land agricultural zones can lead to this which makes the ground unproductive
Soil Salinization