Agriculture Terms
A practice that involves digging into the mountains to achieve this sustainable practice
What is terrace farming?
A center where agricultural practices develop and from which the new practices spread or diffuse
What is an agricultural hearth?
The period during which the early domestication and diffusion of plants and animals and the cultivation of seed crops led to the development of agriculture
What is the 1st Agricultural Revolution?
These crops were grown directly adjacent to the Urban Center (Market)
What are Dairy & Produce?
A large corporation that provides a vast array of goods and services to support the agricultural industry
What is Agribusiness?
Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that require large amounts of land, a often less human labour.
What is extensive agriculture?
The earliest centre for domestication of seed plants like wheat and barley.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The period that brought improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce that began in the late 1600s and continued through the 1930s
What the 2nd Agricultural Revolution?
What is the major takeaway from Von Thunen's model?
The essential role of the market on cost of land, products, and transportation
The cultivation of a single commercial crop on extensive tracts of land
What is monocropping?
Food production mainly for consumption by the farming family and local community, rather than principally for sale in the market
The interaction and widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and disease between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World (Europe) in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A machine for planting seeds in a row
What is a seed drill?
Three assumptions Von Thunen makes.
- All land is flat
- There is only one market
- Transportation
- Mechanization/Technology
- Modified Crops
- Speciality Crops
A series of links connecting a products many places of production, distribution, and consumption
What is a commodity chain?
The condition of not having access to sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality, to meet one's basic needs.
What is food insecurity?
A region that predominantly grows rice.
What is East/SE Asia?
Materials used to kill or repel animals or insects that can damage, destroy, or inhibit crop growth
What are pesticides?
This product was grown via extensive farming at a substantial distance outside of the Urban Center
What are grains and cereals?
A problem Malaysia is facing because of increased demand for Palm Oil.
What is deforestation?
A plant that is deliberately planted, protected, cared for, and used by humans and is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors
What is a domesticated plant
This Agricultural Region includes California, Italy, and parts of Latin America. It is known for having a unique climate
What is the Mediterranean?
Materials designed to kill or inhibit the growth of unwanted plants (weeds) that compete with crops
What are herbicides?
This explains how the demand for and price of land decrease as its distance from the central business district increases
What is bid-rent theory?
One of the causes of soil erosion and soil salinization
What is over watering?