Unit 5 Agriculture Vocab Quiz
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- Q1The set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for commercial purposes. It includes activities ranging from seed production, to retailing, to consumption of agricultural products.Agribusiness60s
- Q2governments making payments to farmers to help them obtain competitive market pricesAgriculture subsidies60s
- Q3The large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methodsagroindustry60s
- Q4Raising marine and freshwater fish in ponds and underwater cagesAquaculture60s
- Q5geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases.Bid-rent theory60s
- Q6the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.Biodiversity60s
- Q7A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes.Biotechnology60s
- Q8Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can supportCarrying capacity60s
- Q9a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. - coffee, tea, cocoa, cottoncash crop60s
- Q10corn, wheat, rice, and other grassescereal grains60s
- Q11An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.Columbian Exchange60s
- Q12the production of food primarily for sale off the farmCommercial agriculture60s
- Q13a linked system of processes that gather resources, convert them into goods, package them for distribution, disperse them, and sell them on the marketCommodity chains60s
- Q14the action of clearing a wide area of trees.Deforestation60s
- Q15the gradual transformation of habitable land into desertDesertification60s