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Human Geography Vocab

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show Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates  
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Agriculture   show
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First Agricultural Revolution   show
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Fertile Crescent   show
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show Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade  
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Shifting cultivation   show
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Monoculture   show
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show A cluster of advances in breeding livestock, agricultural technology, and seed production to increase food, feed, and livestock production that took place in Europe in the 1700s and 1800s  
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Columbian Exchange   show
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Unequal exchange   show
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Green Revolution   show
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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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show Land survey system that divides Earth into square parcels called townships (6 miles by 6 miles), each of which has 36 sections (1 mile by 1 mile). Commonly found west of the Appalachian Mountains  
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Metes and Bounds System   show
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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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Primogeniture   show
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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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show System of harvesting produce that is not quite ripe and ripening it by controlling temperature from the fields to the grocery store  
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Plantation agriculture   show
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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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show Renewable fuel made from plant materials called biomass  
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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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Malnurition   show
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Food Desert   show
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Urban agriculture   show
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