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Ch 10 KI 1 & 2
Term | Definition |
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Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain |
Columbian Exchange | The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas. |
Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
Crop | Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season |
Monocropping | Growing the same crop on the same field year after year |
Subsistence Agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family |
Cereal Grain | A grass that yields grain for food |
Dietary Energy Consumption | The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories |
Food Desert | An area that has a substantial number of low-income residents and has poor access to a grocery store |
Food Security | Physical, social and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life |
Undernourishment | Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity |