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Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstein Ch 9

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show Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.  
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show The process that began when humans first domesticated plants and animals, and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.  
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Agriculture   show
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Aquaculture   show
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show A crop that is grown for sale, rather than for the farmer’s own use.  
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show A grass that yields grain for food.  
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Columbian exchange   show
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Commercial agriculture   show
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Commercial gardening and fruit farming   show
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Conservation tillage   show
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Crop   show
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Crop rotation   show
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Desertification   show
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Dietary energy consumption   show
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show Harvesting twice a year from the same field.  
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show 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.  
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show A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern technology.  
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show Seed of a cereal grass.  
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Green revolution   show
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show A chemical to control unwanted plants.  
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Horticulture   show
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Intensive subsistence agriculture   show
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Milkshed   show
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Mixed crop and livestock farming   show
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Monocropping   show
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show A farming practice that leaves all of the soil undisturbed and the entire residue of the previous year’s harvest left untouched on the fields.  
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show Farming that depends on the use of naturally occurring substances while prohibiting or strictly limiting synthetic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and growth hormones.  
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show Capturing fish faster than they can reproduce.  
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show Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah.  
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Pastoral nomadism   show
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show A substance to control pests, including weeds.  
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show A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.  
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show A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.  
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Ridge tillage   show
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Sawah   show
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show An increase in agricultural productivity through improvement of crop rotation and breeding of livestock, beginning in the U.K. in the seventeenth century.  
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Shifting cultivation   show
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Subsistence agriculture   show
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Sustainable agriculture   show
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show A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.  
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show Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.  
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show Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities.  
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Undernourishment   show
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show Rice planted on dryland in a nursery then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote grown.  
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