Revolutions
Agricultural Diffusion/Influences
Agricultural Practices
Commercial vs Subsistence
Innovations
100

The title for groups before the First Agricultural Revolution.

What are Hunter-Gatherer Societies?

100

The Silk Road was an example of this, where ideas about farming techniques where able to spread across the world.

What is Trade?

100

A practice defined by the cultivation of cows or goats. Historically seen on small farms, but through the innovation in refrigeration has grown into large corporations.

What is Dairy Farming?

100

Agriculture that is intended for the selling of crops for profit.

What is Commercial Farming?
100

The era when the domestication of plants and animals happened.

What is the First Agricultural Revolution?

200

Regions where agricultural ideas first developed during the First Agricultural Revolution.

What are Agricultural Hearths?

200

A sustained pattern of weather, which influences how agriculture was able to develop in areas around the world.

What is Climate?

200

A type of farm that specializes in the production of a singular cash crop. Its history holds its roots in colonialism and slavery, located typically in poorer regions.

What is a Plantation?

200

A place where a person can participate in commercial agriculture.

What is the grocery store/restaurant/vending machine/etc.?

200

A type of fencing developed in the Second Agricultural Revolution to make sure that livestock stays within a closed area.

What is Barbed Wire?

300

A time period that happened at the same time as the Second Agricultural Revolution.

What is the Industrial Revolution?

300

An influence that culture has on the development of agriculture. Hinduism holding the Cow as a sacred animal is an example of this.

What is Humanity?

300

A type of farming where the animals support the growth of the crops while the crops also support the growth of the animals.

What is Mixed Crop/Livestock Farming?

300

The type of technology that is commonplace on a subsistence farm.

What is primitive technology?

300

A machine developed in the Second Agricultural Revolution which helps place seeds deeper into the ground. The machine also helps speed up the process of burying the seeds.

What is the Mechanized Seed Drill?

400

The movement where wealthy landowners began to fence off common lands, creating a stronger definition for private property.

What is the Enclosure Movement?

400

The process of traversing unknown lands which led to the discovery of new plants, animals, and techniques.

What is Exploration?

400

A type of farming that is defined by the movement of a people in order to find food to sustain the nourishment of their animals.

What is Pastoral Nomadism?

400

A place where subsistence farming is very common.

What is Africa/South America/etc.?

400

The process of taking two plants and naturally combining their traits to create a new crop.

What is Plant Breeding/Hybridization?

500

The man responsible for innovations in hybridization, noted as the person who started the Third Agricultural Revolution.

Who is Norman Borlaug?

500

The trade route that developed after colonization, which led to the diffusion of agriculture between the Old World and the New World.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

500

The reason that wheat oriented grain farms are able to survive in colder regions as seen in Canada and Russia.

What is climate/less water needed/etc.?

500

SUPRISE QUESTION!

Describe what a GMO is and what it does.

 A "Genetically Modified Organism," which modifies the genetic structure of a crop or livestock which adds in a desired trait that would otherwise not be seen in the crop or livestock.
500

The process of diverting water from a source to crops via tunnels/trenches.

What is Irrigation?