Types of Agriculture
Type of agriculture in which a single crop is cultivated at a time.
What is Monoculture/Monocropping/Single-Cropping?
Agricultural hearth associated with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent?
The Second Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution began in this country.
What is England/Great Britain?
The process of using engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed.
What is GMO?
A neighborhood with little or no access to healthy and affordable food options.
What is Food Desert?
A three-stage system of agriculture in which farmers first cut and burn dead foliage allowing the nutrients to soak into the soil. They then plant on that field for a short time until the land is no longer suitable. This process is repeated on multiple fields.
What is Shifting Cultivation?
Global diffusion of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The process of applying controlled amounts of water to crops using canals, pipes, sprinkler systems, or other human-made devices. This was improved upon during the 2nd Agricultural Revolution
What is irrigation
Considered "Father of the Green Revolution"
Who is Dr. Norman Borlaug?
What is Hybrid Wheat?
Often suited for growing olives, figs, dates, grapes, citrus fruits etc.
What is Mediterranean Agriculture/Climate?
The process whereby wild plants or animals are selectively bred overtime for their desired traits.
What is domestication?
This type of movement of people increased dramatically during Second Agricultural Revolution/
What is Rural-to-Urban Migration?
The practice of breeding two plants that have desired characteristics to produce a single seed with both characteristics.
What is Hybridization?
The number of people that an area can support given the available resources.
What is Carrying Capacity?
Factory farms in which animals are packed into tight spaces is considered what type of agriculture.
What is Commercial Agriculture?
This geological feature was important to the development of the first agricultural hearths because it provided food, a means of transportation, and at times a defense from enemies or predators.
What is a River/water source?
Steel Plow, Mechanized Seed Driller, Fertilizer, and McCormick Reaper/Harvester
What are Early Technological Advances in Agriculture?
Runoff from these developments cause environmental pollution
What are chemical fertilizers/pesticides
Runoff from this technological development caused environmental pollution.
What are chemical pesticides/fertilizers?
A portmanteau used to describe farms run as businesses.
What is agribusiness?
What type of diffusion was most responsible for the widespread of various plants and animals outside of their agricultural hearths.
What is Contagious Diffusion?
These British laws enabled the private purchase of previously common-held land. This allowed for larger, more efficient farms with crops sold for profit rather than personal consumption
What are the Enclosure Acts?
This continent benefitted the least from the advancements of the Green Revolution due to its large size, lack of developed transportation infrastructure, and climate diversity.
What is Africa?
Governmental and financial support for farmers of particular crops.
What are Subsidies?