Agricultural Regions
Subsistence agricultural practice where people travel with herds of animals
What is pastoral nomadism?
Concentrated animal feeding operations where animals are raised on grains and hormones
What are feedlots?
An area without affordable, good food
What is a food desert?
Buildings along transportation lines
What is linear settlement?
Where the first civilizations began
What is the fertile crescent
Agricultural practice in developed regions where crops are raised and fed to livestock on the same farm
What is mixed crop and livestock farming?
One place or farm can produce a good more efficiently than another
What is comparative advantage?
How harmful agricultural practices degrades the land
What is desertification?
Land boundaries created with latitude and longitude
What is township and range?
First domestication of plants and animals
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Large commercial farms in hot, humid climates
What are plantations?
One company owns the production line
What is vertical integration?
Water gets cleared from swamps for more farmland
What is wetland draining?
Long, narrow parcels of land emerging from a transportation line
What is the long lot system?
A time when improved equipment improved agriculture
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Another name for slash and burn agriculture
What is shifting cultivation?
Production at a larger scale is cost advantageous
What is the economy of scale?
Soil accumulates salt as water table rises and evaporates
What is salinization?
Many buildings grouped together
What is clustered settlement?
Greatly increased food production in developing countries
What is the Green Revolution?
Agriculture that produces goods like grapes, olives, figs, and dates.
What is Mediterranean agriculture?
Brings a good from farm to market
What is the commodity chain?
A common way people get more farmland on the edge of forests
What is deforestation?
Most detailed method of creating boundaries
What is metes and bounds?
A modern method to improve quality and survivability of an organism
What are GMOs?