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Vocabulary
Revolutions
Types of Agriculture
Miscellaneous
100
The art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the purpose of human consumption.
What is agriculture?
100
It was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement which supported an increasingly large population.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
100
Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small pots of land to maximize crop yield.
What is intensive cultivation?
100
The four Asian Tigers.
What are Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan?
200
The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid, unproductive, and desert-like.
What is desertification?
200
Technological changes such as better horse collars and crop rotation, that began in the 1600s to the 1800s, beginning in Western Europe and spreading through North America.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
200
System of cultivation that usually exists in tropical areas where vegetation is cut close to the ground and then ignited. The fire introduces nutrients to the soil, thereby making it productive for a relatively short period of time.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
200
The author of "A Silent Spring."
Who is Rachel Carson?
300
A large, frequently foreign-owned piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export crop.
What is a plantation?
300
The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe.
What is the Green Revolution?
300
An extensive commercial agriculture activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic spaces typically located in semi-arid climates like the American West.
What is livestock ranching?
300
The first forms of agriculture.
What are vegetative planting and seed agriculture?
400
A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes.
What is biotechnology?
400
The beginnings of commercialization of agriculture (production of surplus for trade); enabled widespread urbanization.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
400
The use of crop rotation, natural fertilizers such as manure, and biological pest control-- as opposed to artificial fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, additives, and genetically modified organisms-- to promote healthy, vigorous crops.
What is organic agriculture?
400
Spring wheat belt states.
What are the Dakotas, Montana, and southern Canada?
500
A linked system of processes that gather resources, convert them into goods, package them for distribution, disperse them, and sell them on the market.
What are commodity chains?
500
Successes led to less concern about food security, and less investment in irrigation, agricultural research, and rural infrastructure. Growth rate in rice production declined during 1985-95 due to drop in growth rate of rice yields. In most places, despite increasing use of fertilizers, further increases in yields became harder to achieve and more costly.
What is the Green Revolution?
500
Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods-- a process requiring very little human labor.
What is capital-intensive agriculture?
500
Had the theory that population growth encourages substance farmers to consider new farming techniques to feed the people.
Who is Esther Boserup?