Question 1

Agribusiness

Accepted Answer

Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.

Question 2

Aquaculture

Accepted Answer

The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

Question 3

Commercial Agriculture

Accepted Answer

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.

Question 4

Columbian Exchange

Accepted Answer

Transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

Question 5

Fair Trade

Accepted Answer

Companies that do not use slaves and pledge to pay their employees a fair price.

Question 6

Extensive agriculture

Accepted Answer

A crop or livestock system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit area of land. May be part of either a subsistence or a commercial economy

Question 7

Intensive agriculture

Accepted Answer

A crop or livestock system where farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.

Question 8

Milkshed

Accepted Answer

The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.

Question 9

Mixed farming

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Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm

Question 10

Monoculture

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The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.

Question 11

Pastoral Nomadism

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A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.

Question 12

Slash and burn agriculture

Accepted Answer

A farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land

Question 13

Substinence agriculture

Accepted Answer

Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family, oftentimes in less developed countries.

Question 14

Capital

Accepted Answer

Money for investment

Question 15

Market Gardening

Accepted Answer

The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers.

Question 16

Clustered rural settlement

Accepted Answer

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.

Question 17

Dispersed rural settlement

Accepted Answer

A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.

Question 18

Linear rural settlements

Accepted Answer

Feature buildings clustered along a road, river, or coast to facilitate transportation

Question 19

Metes and bounds

Accepted Answer

A survey method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.

Question 20

Township and range system

Accepted Answer

A survey method showing property lines in grid pattern that display uniformity

Question 21

French long-lot system

Accepted Answer

A survey method showing linear settlements stretched out along a road or river.

Question 22

Agricultural hearth

Accepted Answer

The origin of agricultural practices

Question 23

Domestication

Accepted Answer

The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans

Question 24

Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia

Accepted Answer

Civilization began in the Middle East in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley; increased agricultural production

Question 25

Independent innovation

Accepted Answer

Invention of the same phenomenon by two culture hearths without each knowing about the other's invention or, sometimes, existence.

Question 26

Intercropping

Accepted Answer

An agricultural method in which two or more crop species are planted in the same field at the same time to promote a synergistic interaction.

Question 27

Feedlots

Accepted Answer

An area or building where livestock are fed and fattened up.

Question 28

Plantation agriculture

Accepted Answer

Raising a large amount of a "cash crop" for local sale or export

Question 29

Livestock ranching

Accepted Answer

The raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other byproducts such as leather and wool.

Question 30

First Agricultural Revolution

Accepted Answer

Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.

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