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Chapter 11 Vocabular

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show Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates.  
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show Purposefully growing crops and raising livestock to produce food (for humans), feed (for livestock), and fiber (for textiles).  
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show The transformation of societies from hunting and gathering to purposeful raising of food, feed, and fiber.  
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Fertile Crescent   show
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Subsistence agriculture   show
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Shifting cultivation   show
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Monoculture   show
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Second Agricultural Revolution   show
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show Movement of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas among Africa, Europe, and the Americas across the Atlantic.  
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show Uneven relationship between low labor costs and high-value products.  
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show Intensified agriculture that uses engineered seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation to increase intensive agricultural practices.  
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Third Agricultural Revolution   show
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show Method of land survey through which land ownership and property lines are defined.  
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Township and Range System   show
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show Land survey system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. Commonly found on the east coast of the United States.  
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show Land survey system that divides Earth into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. Commonly found in France or places of French settlement, including Quebec and Louisiana.  
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show land ownership inheritance practice where land is passed down to the eldest son.  
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show Agricultural products that are susceptible to spoiling in transit.  
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show A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a spatial pattern of rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining where a crop or good is produced in reference to the market.  
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Cold chain   show
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show Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation, and organized to produce a cash crop  
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show The premise that the price and demand for land will go up the closer it is to the central city.  
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show Production of agricultural goods using fertilizers, insecticides, and high-cost inputs to achieve the highest yields possible.  
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Indoor Vertical Farms   show
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show Production of agricultural goods primarily by hand with low use of fertilizers and high use of human labor.  
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show Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.  
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Ethanol   show
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show Renewable fuel made from vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant grease.  
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show Living on less than the daily recommended 2100 calories the average person needs to live a healthy life.  
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show The belief an individual has in their ability to affect change in their life.  
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show Probability of destruction of life or property from a hazard or crisis.  
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Malnutrition   show
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show Area characterized by a lack of availability of affordable, fresh, and nutritious food.  
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show Cultivating land or raising livestock in small plots in cities, generally on converted brownfields or on rooftops.  
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