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Unit 5-Agriculture Test

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Occurred from the 1950s-to the 1980s; the invention and rapid diffusion of productive agricultural techniques such as plant hybridization and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
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The township and range system
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A type of agriculture that grows one or two crops for commercial purposes. Often people are hired as laborers and owners are commercial contractors.
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A type of agriculture in which people herd domesticated animals by moving them from pastor to pastor
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Modifying a plant or animal species through selective breeding so that it becomes dependent on humans.
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genetically modified organisms
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Farmers need supplies such as fertilizer, machinery, productive seeds and pesticides to increase food production
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Make foreign markets more available
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When people started deliberately raising plants or animals
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The act of producing more food than demand calls for.
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Skinny, linear rectangles were the shape for land so water could be accessible to a lot of people
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The six types of agriculture found in developed regions
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A type of agriculture that requires a large amount of work to produce a lot of food from a small amount of land.
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A survey system in which natural features are used to demarcate individual parcels of land. Creates an irregular pattern of land division
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When people started to use machines in farming in the early 1800s that continued into the 20th century.
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The thesis that states as population grows, farmers are forced to adopt more intensive methods to meet the demands
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What are the major hearths for plant crops?
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Preparing, planting, caring for, and harvesting a plant crop,
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Where is the hearth for wheat?
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Increases the availability of choices through machinery, irrigation, etc., and also shapes the style of agriculture.
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intensive subsistence
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cultivation
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Wealth
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how to deal with overproduction
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Latin America, Southwest Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia
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Boserup's thesis
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domestication
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overproduction
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Southwest Asia
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Second Agricultural Revolution
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Green Revolution
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metes and bound
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plantation
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pastoral nomadism
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Balancing Food and Trade
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long lot system
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agricultural revolution
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Mixed crop and livestock, Dairy farming, Commercial gardening and fruit farming, Grain farming, Mediterranean agriculture, Livestock ranching
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GMOs
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36 section square
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This diagram dimistrates how the cost of land decrease the farther away one is from the market
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Where is the hearth for potatoes?
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Water pollution, use of antibiotics and hormones, and resource use
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The maximum distance a crop can be transported and still be sold to make a profit.
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Preferences based on customs, religion, social norms, etc.
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A type of culture in which people change the activity of one field to another to prevent the overuse of nutrients
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Where is the hearth for rice?
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The act of planting and harvesting two crops in the same year on the same field.
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Where is the hearth for coconuts?

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