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AP Human Vocab V

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Adaptive strategies   show
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show People or societies that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest  
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Agribusiness   show
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Agricultural Industrialization   show
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show The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our fields  
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Agricultural location model   show
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Agricultural Origins   show
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Agriculture   show
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Animal Domestication   show
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show The cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food  
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Biorevolution   show
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show Using living organisms in a useful way to produce commercial products like pest resistant crops.  
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show A farm where its workers pool their resources together in hopes of becoming more prodecutive  
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show Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.  
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Core/Periphery   show
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show The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil  
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Cultivation regions   show
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Dairying   show
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Debt-for-nature swap   show
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show The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time  
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Double Cropping   show
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Primary Activity   show
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Secondary activity   show
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Teritary activity   show
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show Based around information and technology  
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show Focuses on government, culture, and research  
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Environmental Modifications (pesticides, soil erosion, desertification)   show
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show Shifting Cultivation: Use many fields for crop growing each field is used for a couple years then left fallow for a relatively long time. Nomadic herding/pastorilism:Based on herding domesticated animals  
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show Processes that extract resources from the Earth to be used by consumers  
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show Agricultural recession  
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show Agriculture  
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show a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market  
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First agricultural revolution   show
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Fishing   show
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show A series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc  
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Forestry   show
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Globalized Agriculture   show
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Green Revolution   show
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show The season in which crops grow best. Growing season can vary by location, societies rely on their growing season to which crops they can or can’t grow at their latitude  
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show Before the agriculture, humans gained food by hunting for animals, fishing, or gathering plants. They lived in small groups (less than 50 people), traveled frequently following game and seasonal growth of plants  
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show A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasibly yield from a parcel of land.  
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Intertillage   show
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show commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area  
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show The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers. Distinguishable by the large diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, during a single growing season. Labor is done manually  
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show Farming in the land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea also in lands with similar climates  
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Mineral Fuels   show
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show – Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, vein, or coal seam.  
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Planned Economy   show
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Renewable   show
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Non-Renewable   show
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show Sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities. Live in villages, hamlets on farms, or in other isolated houses. Typically have an agricultural character, with an economy based on logging, mining, petroleum, natural gas or tourism.  
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Dispersed Settlement   show
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Nucleated Settlement   show
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Building Material   show
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Village Form   show
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show defined cultural landscape, as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group. A combination of cultural features such as language and religion; economic features such as agriculture and industry; and physical features such as climate and vegetation.  
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show Precursor to Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, that allowed a shift in work force beyond subsistence farming to allow labor to work in factories.  
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show Third level of cities , offer a narrow and highly specialized variety of services. Typically specialize in management, research and development of a specific industry  
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Staple Grains   show
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Suitcase Farm   show
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Long Lots (French)   show
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Metes and Bounds (English)   show
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Township-and-Range (U.S.A)   show
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Sustainable Yield   show
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Third Agricultural Revolution   show
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Mechanization   show
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Chemical Farming   show
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show the Green Revolution has increased production to avoid widespread famine. Allowing the world population to grow about four billion since stared, also allowing populations in developing nations to consume 25% more than before.  
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‘Tragedy of the Commons’   show
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Transhumance   show
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Truck Farm   show
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show 1826, Northern Germany. Commercial farmers compare two costs; cost of land vs cost of transportation. Distance is critical because the transportation cost varies. Found that crops were grown in rings around city.  
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