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APHG 11

Agriulture

term	definition	example
agriculture	Tending crops and livestock	Raising cows or growing corn
primary economic activity	1st of steps	Growning of
secondary economic activity	2nd of steps	Transforming raw materials for our use
tertiary economic activity	3rd of steps	Services for farming banking educating and retailing
quaternary economic activity	4th of steps	Processing and manipulation of data
plant domestication	Manipulation of plants for our benefit	Artificial selection
root crops	Crop that reproduces through roots	Potatoes
seed crops	Crops that reproduce though seeds	Corn
First Agricultural Revolution	When we invented farming
animal domestication	General modification of animals, rendered more amenable to human control	Farm raising pigs
subsistence agriculture	Growing only to supports selves	Mostly in periphery
shifting cultivation	Cultivation of crops moving to the next area every few years due to overusage	Slash and burn agricultural
slash and burn agriculture	When trees are burnt in thè clearing of one plot of land and farmed there ashes used to fertilize soil
second agriculture revolution	Farming benefiting from
von thunen model	Explains the location of agricultural because of rent and transportation	Created long ago. City at center. Perishables surround. Forests surround...
Third agricultural revolution	Green revolution. Genetic engineering
generically modified organisms	Organisms who's genetics were specifically chosen (through ancestors) for a reason
rectangular survey system	Aka public land survey. Gov. Gave land to people west of Appalachian Mts.	Township and range system
township and range system	rectangular land scheme by Thomas Jefferson to distribute settlers evenly
metes and bounds survey	land system E of Appalachian Mts. imprecise system (demarcated by land)
longlot survey	land divided into long strips (along rivers and such)	Texas
primogeniture	system where eldest son receives land from father
commercial agriculture	Large scale farming (w machinery) intending to make a profit	Farming corn for a company
monoculture	Dependence on signal crop	Farmers that only grow corn
Koppen climatic classification system	system that classifies climates around the world
climatic regions	Regions around world w similar climates	A hot very warm humid
plantation agriculture	production system based on large plantations
luxury crops	Non substantial crop	Tea, coffee
livestock ranching	Raising domestic animals for eat and other parts	Cows, lambs, pigs
Mediterranean agriculture	Specialized farming of crops native to Mediterranean	Olives, citrus, some veggies
agribusiness	General term for business that provides goods and services to farmers	Company that makes machinery for farms
Quinary economic activity	Fifth of the steps	Research for farming
organic agriculture	Approach of farming and ranching that avoids pesticides or hormones

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