Agriculture and Environement
The purposeful of cultivation of plants or raising to produce goods for survival
What is agriculture?
What is farmers expend a great deal of effort to produce as much yield as possible from an area of land. They rely on high levels of input and energy?
The shift from foraging to farming, allowed for a big population growth, and encouraged sedentary life and led to more complex life
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
Agribusiness
What is the large scale system that includes production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products and equipment?
The system with property boundaries in terms of lines drawn in certain directions for a specific distance from clear points of reference, like a hill or tree.
What is metes and bounds?
Ideal temperatures, precipitation, soils, and slope
What is favorable land for growing crops?
The land value determines how a farmer will use the land, ex; the cost and distance affects if its used for livestock or dairying, etc.
What is bid-rent theory?
Agricultural Hearth
What is each area where different groups began to domesticate plants and animals?
Shifting cultivation
System that allows equal access to waterways and a mix of soils, divided into a series of adjacent long strips
What is long-lot survey system?
Growing hardy trees(olives, fruits, nuts) and raising sheep and goate
What is Mediterranean agriculture
Extensive Agriculture
What is lower inputs and investments and yield lower outputs
Began in Britain, saw dramatic improvements in crop yield due to advancements in oxen, horses, fertilizers and field drainage systems. Enclosure system
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution
Pastoral nomadism
What is people who move their animals seasonally or as needed to allow the best grazing?
System used to sell and survery land in the US, which is why it is very rectangular.
What is township and range?
The five broad climate types
What is tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar?
Monocropping
What is the cultivation of one or two crops that are rotated seasonly, ex; corn, soybeans, wheat, or cotton
Subsistence agriculture
What is obtaining enough yield to feed ones family and close community, using fewer resources and more hand labor?
Settlement where residents live in close proximity versus settlement where houses and buildings are isolated from one another.
What is Clustered settlement versus Dispersed settlements?
Areas that have similar climate patterns generally based on latitude and their location on coasts
What is climate regions?
Monoculture
What is the agricultural system of planting one crop or raising one type of animal annually.
What is huge use of energy and natural resources, harmful synthetic pesticides
The central location in Bid Rent Theory
What is CBD( Central Business District)?
Linear settlement
What is houses and buildings extend in a long line that usually follows a land feauture?