"Roots" of Agriculture
Farming for your family and local area.
What is subsistence farming?
Having both plants and animals on your farm.
What is mixed crop and livestock faming?
This model explains how as you travel further from the city center different types of farming is done. This is due to food preservation and transportation costs.
What is the Von Thunen Model?
When an area or individual has little access to consistent, healthy food.
What is food insecurity?
Groups of homes located near each other in a village.
What is a clustered settlement?
Its what "CBD" stands for
What is Central Business District?
This was marked by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and GMOs.
What is the Green Revolution?
Moving farm land from place to place to farm in order to keep the soil nourished.
What is shifting cultivation or slash and burn farming.
The process from when a seed is sown to a consumer buying the food.
What is a commodity chain?
An area where there are people needing food but little to no grocery stores or suppliers of food.
What is a food desert?
This use of land involves farming on higher priced land close to market center. Higher yield is gained through more workers and more technology.
What is intensive farming?
Early groups of people who lived a mile apart from each other.
What is a Dispersed Rural Settlement?
This was the origin of farming, it was marked by the first domestication of plants and animals.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
Growing vegetables, fruits, and flowers to be sold for profit.
What is market gardening?
Farming that is focused on one crop. This can lead to a loss of biodiversity in an area.
What is monocropping?
Many farmers in the world do this, by planting/harvesting one crop in the spring/summer, and then planting/harvesting a different crop in the fall/winter.
What is a double-cropping?
This type of farming uses lower priced land and gains higher yield by using a lot of land.
What is extensive farming?
The farming of marine fish specifically out of saltwater (or the ocean).
What is Mariculture?
This type of farming puts a focus on using little to no pesticides or herbicides.
What is organic farming?
Following herds of livestock from place to place.
What is pastoral nomadism?
This is used to determine farmers willingness to pay for land at various distances from the market center.
What is the bid-rent theory?
The phenomenon by which salt build up in soil reaches the point where soil loses nourishment and plants suffer.
What is soil salinization?
This measuring system was used in England where the plots of land were irregular shapes. It uses physical features of the land to create plot boundaries.
What is metes and bounds?
This is the part of the world where we think plant and animal domestication first took place
The farming of salmon out of a river in Oregon.
What is aquaculture?
This is the term for large commercial farms that specialize in one or two crops. These are common in developing countries.
What are plantations?
Money given to farmers by the government to keep them farming if demand is low or harvest is bad.
What is a subsidy?
A movement that promoted equal farming relationships, particularly between developing producers and developed consumers.
What is the fair trade movement?
The French used this system which created even rectangles of land for farms usually along a source of water.
What is the French long lot system?
This climate zone is the best one to describe Modesto, CA (two possibilities)
What is Semi-arid or Mediterrean?