Intensive Agriculture
System of wet rice cultivation, on small level fields bordered by impermeable dikes, fields are flooded with water for the growing season.
What is Paddy Rice Agriculture?
A system of breeding and rearing herd livestock, such as cattle, sheep, or goats, by following seasonal movement of rainfall to areas of open pasturelands.
What is Nomadic Herding?
A settlement pattern in which families live relatively distant from one another.
What is Dispersed Settlement?
Chemical compounds obtained from petroleum and natural gas for use in agriculture including fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides.
What are Agrichemicals?
The act of mixing different species or varieties of plants or animals to produce hybrids.
What is crossbreeding?
System of animal feeding utilizing fenced enclosures to fatten livestock, mostly cattle and hogs, for slaughter and processing for the market.
What is Livestock Fattening?
Farming technique that involves planting two or more different crops in close proximity to maximize space, improve soil health, and reduce pests.
What is Intercropping?
Survey system that uses natural features such as trees, boulders, and streams to delineate property boundaries.
What is Metes and Bounds?
A machine used to harvest grain crops mechanically.
What is a Mechanical Reaper
The offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties.
What is a hybrid?
A highly mechanized commercial farming system that specializes in the production of cereal grains.
What is Grain Agriculture?
Agriculture that involves cutting small plots in forests or woodlands, burning the cutting to clear the ground and release nutrients, and planting in the ash of the cleared plot.
What is Slash and Burn Agriculture?
A settlement pattern in which buildings are arranged in a line, often along a road or river; limited to areas where legal systems dictated that property lines must be rectangular.
What is Linear Settlement Pattern?
The flow if rain or irrigation water over land.
What is runoff?
Planting two or three crops per year on the same land.
What is multicropping?
A small-scale farming system in which a farmer plants one to a few acres that produce a diverse mixture of vegetables and fruits, mostly for sale in local and regional markets.
What is Market Gardening?
The practice of using extensive tracts of land to rear herds of livestock to sell as meat, hides, wool.
What is Livestock Ranching?
Land survey system created by the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785, which divides most of the country’s territory into a grid of square-shaped townships with 6-mile sides.
What is Township and Range?
An agricultural hand tool with a curved blade used for cutting grain in the fields.
What is a scythe?
Occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another, bypassing other persons, communities, or rural areas.
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
Farming technique that can be found in river valleys and the mountain highland in developing regions.
What is Mixed crop/Livestock agriculture?
When land is no good so farmer people go to other place
What is Shifting Cultivation?
A unit-block surveying system whose basic unit is a rectangle that is typically 10 times longer than it is wide.
What is Long-lot Survey System?
The consequence of overuse of fertilizer occurs when excess nutrients seep down into groundwater or are carried into nearby waterways as runoff.
What is Nutrient Pollution
A measure of the concentration of dissolved salts in the soil.
What is Soil Salinity?