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Year 10 AGS Term 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Define Primary Industry | any industry that is concerned with obtaining or providing natural raw materials for conversion into commodities and products for the consumer e.g. agriculture, mining, forestry |
| Define Agriculture | the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fibre, shelter, biofuel and other products used to sustain human life |
| Define Domestication | adapting behaviours of plants and animals for human use |
| Reasons for the domestication of animals | Supply of products of value to the community (e.g. Milk, Beef) Ease of handling in captivity. Animals are capable of growing and reproducing in captivity |
| Define Sustainability | the process to minimise the waste of inputs in a system which ensures that the system has the potential to continue without negative impacts on environmental, financial and social factors |
| The three pillars of sustainability | environmental, economic and social factors |
| Identify some reasons why Agriculture is under pressure | Examples include The human population is increasing and more people need more food, urbanisation is reducing the agricultural land available, |
| Define a system | A group of objects, materials or processes that interact to achieve some purpose |
| Describe Abiotic factors | The non-living components of a system e.g. Soil and climate |
| Describe Biotic factors | The living organisms in a system eg. producers, consumers and decomposers |
| Define Ecosystem | A group of living organisms, their relationships with each other and their abiotic environment |
| Describe an Open System | A system that freely exchanges energy and matter with its surroundings (energy and matter both transfer in and out of the system) e.g. A farm |
| Describe a Closed System | A system that exchanges only energy with its surroundings, not matter. For example, the carbon or Nitrogen Cycle or the Earth |
| Describe an Isolated System | A theoretical system that does not exchange energy or matter with it’s surroundings. For example the Universe or a Thermos Flask |
| Name the major components of a system | inputs, outputs, boundaries, subsystems, processes, interactions, feedback and monitoring |
| Name three examples of plants and animals that provide food, fibre and shelter | Plants - food: vegetables, wheat, carrots; fibre: flax, rubber, cotton; shelter: silkworm, pine, cedar. Animals - food: beef cattle, sheep, pigs; fibre: turkey, duck, chickens; shelter: cattle, horses (glue) and sheep |
| Describe the inputs of a system | Inputs are raw materials such as seed, fertiliser, fuel, labour and management used to make a product |
| Describe processes of a system | Stages and alterations that the raw materials must undergo to convert them into the desired product. Examples: Growth, photosynthesis, harvesting, spraying weeds |
| Describe outputs of a system | Materials produced on a farm Examples include animals, hay, grain, wool, milk or eggs |
| Describe boundaries of a system | The limitations of the system including - amount of land available, climate/drought/floods, competitors, pests, weeds and diseases |
| Describe why an agricultural system is a managed system | The inputs and processes must be managed by the farmer to ensure the desired outputs are achieved |
| Describe subsystems of a system | Smaller systems within the farm that can be managed as separate systems e.g. individual paddocks, cropping and cattle on the same farm would be individual subsystems |
| Explain what the difference is between the model of the system and the actual farm | The systems model is a theoretical approach to understand the process, it helps the business plan and aids in decision-making. It identifies all of the parts that must function together for the farm to produce the materials a farmer can sell. |
| Describe continuous data | Data where there is a continuous spread and the data is not categorical. The data can be any value. e.g. temperature, height, weight. |
| What type of graph should be used to graph continuous data? | Line graphs or xy scatter plots |
| Describe discontinuous data | Data that belong in specific classes or groups - e.g. birth month, blood type, car brands |
| What type of graph should be used to graph discontinuous data? | A Bar Graph |
| Describe the points that make a 'good' graph | A Descriptive Title (includes both axes), Units and Labels on each Axis, Not crowded/easy to read, The chart filled the entire area |
| Identify the axis used on a graph for the independent variable | x axis |
| Identify the axis used on a graph for the dependent variable | y axis |
| Describe an intensive agricultural system | A system on a small area of land, requiring large labour inputs, can control the climate of the commodity and the commodity can be produced year-round e.g. feedlots, piggeries, market gardens |
| Describe an extensive agricultural system | A system on a larger area of land where animals/plants are raised with less animals / unit of land than intensive agriculture. There are less inputs and ongoing labour required daily. The commodity is seasonal and can be susceptible to drought and flood |
| State some disadvantages of intensive agriculture | Expensive to set up, can require a large number of employees, government regulation of intensive industries is high, consumers can view intensive ag as having poor welfare |
| Describe the term Sole Trader | A form of business structure where the person trading is the individual legally responsible for all aspects of the business |
| Describe partnerships | A form of business structure where a number of people carry the business on together |
| Describe a Company | A form of business structure that is a separate legal entity. The company has the same rights as a person so can incur debt, be sued and sue |
| Describe Land Tenure | It describes the manner in which a party holds or occupies an area of land. In Qld this can be Freehold or Leasehold land. |
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