Farming Types
Type of farming where you raise sheep
What is pastoral farming?
Farming entirely for profit
What is commercial farming?
The process of farming crops and livestock
What is agriculture?
Minerals that come from rock
What is the parent material?
Modern machinery dramatically increased the productivity of agricultural workers
What is the "industrialization" of farming?
What is plantation farming?
Three components of a farming system
What are inputs, stores, and outputs?
Example of topography
Gives the soil its dark colour
What is a humus?
Crops from one part of the world have been introduced to new regions with suitable growing conditions
What is the introduction of crops to new parts of the world?
Example of an output
What are meat, milk, wool, manure, etc.?
How rice is farmed
What is terracing?
Type of soil that has a thin "A" horizon
What is a leached soil?
Many farms are now owned by corporations
What is increased corporate ownership of farms?
Another word for rearing
What is growing?
Intensive farming
Topography can determine
What is how wet or dry an area is?
Layer of soil that contains humus
What is topsoil?
Examples of high-yield varieties of crops (HYV)
What are rice, corn and wheat?
In one of the Mercer Mondays, we watched a video about harvesting blueberries. What type of farming is this?
Define intensive subsistence farming
What is more effort spent on a smaller area and farming for the purpose of feeding family?
The food item we researched during What in the World Wednesday and what was the issue?
The process in which there is continual downward movement of water through the soil
What is leaching?
The spread of the use of a new invention
What is diffusion?