A portable tent made of felt
What is a ger?
When not enough resources are available to support a population.
What is overpopulation?
Historians speculate that the so-called "Agricultural Revolution," or "Neolithic Revolution," occurred around which date?
What is 8000 BCE?
Another word for shell
What is carapace?
A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
What is Ecumene?
Capture of energy without using special devices
What is Passive solar energy systems?
Trapping some radiation emitted by the surface
What is the greenhouse effect?
Home based manufacturing
What is the cottage industry?
This type of job pays enough for a single, childless adult to sustain a modest standard of living for himself or herself.
What is Living-wage job?
Collect solar energy and convert it directly into either heat or electricity
What is Active solar energy systems?
includes activities that directly extract materials from Earth through agriculture and sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry
What is Primary sector
Alternating crops in the same year on the same plot of land, to best suit the region's climate in a particular season.
What is double cropping?
includes manufacturers that process, transform, and assemble raw materials into useful products, as well as industries that fabricate manufactured goods into finished consumer goods
What is secondary sector?
Access to knowledge, education and a long healthy life are all tracked by this
What is the human development index?
involves the provision of goods and services to people in exchange for payment, such as retailing, banking, law, education, and government
What is Tertiary sector?
Is the value of the output of goods and services produced in a year by a country, including money.
What is Gross national income (GNI)?
A given amount of oxygen required by aquatic bacteria to decompose a given amount of bacteria
What is Biochemical oxygen demand?
The value of the output of goods and services produced in as country in a year
What is Gross domestic product (GDP)?
The agricultural region of the drylands of southwest Asia, North Africa, Central Asia and East Asia are considered to be this type of subsistence agriculture
What is pastoral nomadism?
Is an adjustment made to account for the difference among countries in the cost of goods.
What is purchasing power parity (PPP)
The Malay word for wet rice.
What is a paddy?
A farmer who profitably grows crops that have limited but increasing demands among affluent consumers.
What is Truck farming?
A system of commercial farming that is generally found in developed countries.
What is Agribusiness?
A flooded field in Indonesia
What is a Sawah?
Geographers identify a farmer who grows grain and raises livestock, with every intention of feeding most of the grain to the livestock, as a
What is a mixed crop and livestock farmer?