Agriculture

What is a large corporation that provides a vast array of goods and services to support the agricultural industry?

What term describes the cultivation and harvesting of aquatic organisms under controlled conditions?

What is the use of genetically altered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock to increase production called?

What are seeds that come from a wide variety of grasses cultivated around the world, including wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, oats, and maize?

What term describes a tightly bunched farm settlement that has anywhere from a few dozen to several hundred inhabitants?

What involves the clearing and destruction of forests to clear land for agricultural use?

What describes a series of links connecting a commodity's many places of production, distribution, and consumption?

What is a primary product in agriculture that can be bought and sold, such as coffee, rice, or milk?

What type of farming is oriented exclusively toward the production of agricultural commodities for sale in the market?

What was the interaction and widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, disease, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th & 16th centuries called?

What is the long-term process through which humans selectively breed and care for animals that depend on people for food and shelter?

What term describes plants that are deliberately planted, protected, cared for, and used by humans?

What movement involved wealthy landowners in England enlarging their farms or fencing large blocks of land, changing the cultural landscape?

What farming system requires little hired labor or monetary investment for crop and livestock rearing?

What is the area in Southwest Asia that includes the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, known as the earliest center for the domestication of seed plants?