Types of Agriculture
This type of agriculture is primarily for personal consumption rather than sale.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This practice involves clearing land and burning vegetation to temporarily increase soil nutrients.
What is shifting cultivation or slash-and-burn?
This revolution marked the transition from hunting and gathering to settled farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This term describes the steps food takes from production to consumption.
What is the commodity chain or the food supply chain?
This U.S. land survey system divides land into 6 miles by 6 miles squares.
What is the township and range system?
This farming system uses small amounts of labor and capital per unit of land and often requires large areas.
What is extensive agriculture?
This method of raising livestock involves seasonal movement between pastures.
What is transhumance or nomadic herding?
This revolution introduced mechanization, improved tools, and increased productivity in Europe.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
When one company controls multiple stages of production, processing, and distribution, this is occurring.
What is vertical integration?
This land division system features narrow parcels stretching back from a river.
What is long lot?
This type of agriculture requires large inputs of labor or capital per unit of land to increase yield.
What is intensive agriculture?
This farming technique alternates crops in a field to maintain soil fertility.
What is crop rotation?
This mid-20th century revolution introduced high-yield seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation.
What is the Green Revolution?
This occurs when increasing production lowers the average cost per unit.
What are economies of scale?
This irregular land survey system uses natural features like trees and rivers as boundaries.
What is metes and bounds?
This type of farming is oriented toward generating profit for sale in markets.
What is commercial agriculture?
CAFO is an acronym that stands for this.
What is Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation?
The spread of crops like maize from the Americas to Europe during the Columbian Exchange is an example of this broader process.
What is (relocation) diffusion?
This term refers to large-scale, industrialized farming operations that integrate production, processing, distribution, and sales for maximum efficiency and profit.
What is agribusiness?
This large estate-based agricultural system is common in tropical regions and often produces cash crops.
What is a plantation?
This type of agriculture involves the controlled cultivation of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic organisms for food, often in ponds, tanks, or ocean enclosures.
What is aquaculture?
This agricultural method avoids synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and often relies on natural processes to maintain soil fertility.
What is organic farming?
This agricultural hearth is located in Southwest Asia and is considered one of the earliest centers of domestication.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This agricultural commodity is primarily grown in tropical climates, often on plantations, and is a key export crop for countries like Brazil and Vietnam.
What is coffee?
A farmer located far from a city chooses to raise cattle rather than vegetables. This decision reflects the principle described in this spatial model of agricultural land use.
What is the Von Thünen Model?