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AP Human Geo Chapter 11 Vocabulary

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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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First Agricultural Revolution   show
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show Region in Mesopotamia and Anatolia where agriculture began.  
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Subsistence agriculture   show
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show Agricultural practice based on clearing and farming land for a time before moving on to a new parcel and allowing the first to fill in with native vegetation.  
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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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show Uneven relationship between low labor costs and high-value products.  
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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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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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Long-Lot Survey   show
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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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show Factories where produce is grown hydroponically without soil.  
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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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Organic Agriculture   show
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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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Hunger   show
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Agency   show
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show Probability of destruction of life or property from a hazard or crisis.  
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show Undernutrition, inadequate vitamins, or obesity resulting from diet.  
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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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