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AP HG Ch 10 Vocab

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Agribusiness   show
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show The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.  
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Cereal Grain   show
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chaff   show
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combine   show
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commercial agriculture   show
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crop   show
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crop rotation   show
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desertification   show
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double cropping   show
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show Seed of a cereal grass.  
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green revolution   show
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show The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.  
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show The outer covering of a seed.  
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intensive subsistence agriculture   show
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show The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.  
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paddy   show
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show A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.  
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show Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing.  
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plantation   show
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prime agricultural land   show
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ranching   show
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show A machine that cuts grain standing in the field.  
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show System of planting crops on ridge tops, in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.  
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show A flooded field for growing rice  
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seed agriculture   show
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show A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.  
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show Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.  
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spring wheat   show
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subsistence agriculture   show
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show Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.  
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show A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.  
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thresh   show
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transhumace   show
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show Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning batering or the exchange of commodities.  
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show reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants  
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wet rice   show
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winnow   show
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winter wheat   show
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