Agriculture Vocab 1
Another name for the Agricultural Revolution that began during the New Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
what people did to eat before agriculture
What is hunting and gathering?
This major change occurred when humans began farming instead of depending only on hunting and gathering.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
What is subsistence agriculture?
This word means growing crops and raising animals for human use.
What is agriculture?
Humans began growing these instead of depending only on wild plants.
What are crops?
Humans began keeping and breeding animals for food and other purposes. This process is called _____.
What is domestication?
Name one animal domesticated by early farming communities.
What are sheep, goats, cattle, or pigs?
Farming encouraged people to stop moving constantly and establish these.
What are permanent settlements?
When farmers produced more food than they immediately needed, they created this.
What is a food surplus?
Food surpluses allowed some people to become craftsmen, traders, religious leaders, and other types of _____.
What are specialized workers?
Why did early farmers often settle close to rivers?
What is access to water and fertile soil?
What happened to population levels after farming became more widespread?
What is the population increased?
How did a food surplus encourage trade?
What is people could exchange extra food for other goods?
ive one positive and one negative consequence of the Agricultural Revolution.
Positive: stable food supply, permanent settlements, population growth, specialization.
Negative: disease, social inequality, conflict over land, or dependence on crops.
People completely stopped hunting and gathering as soon as agriculture appeared.
What is False?
BOUNS!!!!!
NO
How did railroads contribute to the agriculture revolution?
What is allowing for transport of food to cities?
harvesting twice a year from the same field
What is double cropping?
Put these in logical order: Food surplus → Farming → Permanent settlements → Specialized jobs.
What is Farming → Food surplus → Permanent settlements/larger communities → Specialized jobs?
Why is the Agricultural Revolution considered a major turning point in human history?
Because it changed humans from mainly nomadic hunters and gatherers into settled farmers, contributing to permanent settlements, population growth, specialization, trade, and eventually civilizations.
extensive relocation diffusion of plants and animals from the Old and New World
What are civilizations?
Place where plant cultivation and animal domestication were first used together
What is the Middle East?
Give two ways domesticated animals helped early farmers besides providing meat.
What are milk, wool, transportation, hides, or farm labor?
Explain the connection: Farming → Food Surplus → Population Growth.
What is reliable food supported more people and allowed communities to grow?