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Unit 5 Vocab Part 1
5.1, 5.2, 5.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Extensive Agriculture | Agriculture that uses small amounts of labor on a large area of land. |
| Intensive Agriculture | Agriculture that uses a lot of labor on a small area of land. |
| Commercial (Market) Gardening | Small-scale, manual labor agricultural production of a variety of crops to be sold commercially, sometimes locally at farmer's markets. |
| Mixed Crop/Livestock | A farm that raises animals but also the feed for those animals and makes money selling the animal products. |
| Nomadic Herding | Raising animals and traveling from place to place with them to find pasture for their animals. |
| Plantation Agriculture | A usually large commercial farm that specializes in one or two crops, usually semi-tropical or tropical areas. |
| Ranching | Commercial agriculture that allows livestock to wander a large area to feed using for meat or wool. |
| Pastoral Nomadism | Herding animals and migrating with them to find pasture areas without a permanent pasture area. |
| Shifting Cultivation | Farmers move from one field to another; aka slash-and-burn agriculture because farmers clear and fertilize the land by burning vegetation. When the soil loses fertility, the farmers move to a different plot of land and repeat. |
| Transhumance (2.11) | Moving flocks into the highlands for summer (cooler) and returning to lowlands for the winter (warmer). |
| Rural Settlement Pattern | Refers to the geometrical shape or arrangement of rural houses/settlements in an area. |
| Clustered Settlement Pattern | A pattern of rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each others' fields and surround the settlement. |
| Dispersed Settlement Pattern | Settlement pattern with people living relatively far from each other on their farms. |
| Linear Settement Pattern | A rural land use pattern that creates a long, narrow settlement around a river, coast, or road that looks like a line. |
| Metes and Bounds | A system of describing parcels of land where the metes are the lines (including angle and distance that surround the property) and bound describes features such as a river or public road. |
| Township and Range | A system of dividing large parcels of where the townships describe how far north or south from the center point. |
| Long Lot | A rural land use pattern that divides land into long, narrow lined up along a waterway or road. |
| Base Line | In the United States a baseline is the principal east-west line (i.e., a parallel) upon which all rectangular surveys in a defined area are based. |
| Surveying | Examining and measuring the surface of the Earth for planning, preparing to build, or mapping. |
| Domestication | The process of taming plants or animals for human use. |
| Fertile Crescent | A crescent-shaped area in Southwest Asia where settled farming first began to emerge leading leading to the rise of cities. |
| Indus River Valley | Agricultural hearth stretching from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. |
| Columbian Exchange | A widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres that was launched by Columbus's voyages. |
| First Agricultural Revolution | Time when people first domesticate plants and animals which allows people to live in one place. |
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