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Chapter10 Rubenstein Test

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Winter wheat
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Hull
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Slash-and-burn agriculture
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Swidden
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Crop
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Mixed crop and livestock farming
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Chaff
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Commercial agriculture
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Desertification
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Prime agricultural land
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Green revolution
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Plantation
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Von Thunen Model
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Seed agriculture
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Wet rice
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Winnow
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Milkshed
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Transhumance
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Spring wheat
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Horticulture
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The most productive farmland
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Area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
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Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
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The outer covering of a seed
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Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
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A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
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Reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization
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Growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
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Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
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Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas
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Theory that a commercial farmer will decide which crops to grow and which livestock to raise depending on proximity to markets
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When farmers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris
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Integration of crops and livestock on the same farm
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Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting
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Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
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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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Production of food primarily for sale off the farm
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The practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth
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Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
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To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
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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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Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants (cutting stems & dividing roots)
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Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides
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Flooded field for growing rice
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To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
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Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
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Malay word for wet rice, commonly used instead of Sawah
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Machine that cuts grain standing in the field
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Seed of a cereal grain
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A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals

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