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Ch 9 Vocab Test

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Crop
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Transhumance
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Plantation
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Wet rice
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Green revolution
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Double cropping
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Carrying Capacity
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Slash and burn agriculture
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Subsistence agriculture
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Enviornmental Degradation
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No tillage
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Dietary energy consumption
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Paddy
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Agricultural Revolution
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Truck Farming
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Sawah
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Food security
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Ridge Tillage
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Aquaculture (aquafarming)
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Crop rotation
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A farming practice that leaves all of the soil undisturbed and the entire residue of the previous year's harvest left untouched on the fields.
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Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
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The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
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The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
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Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.
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Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
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the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.
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Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
I.
Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
J.
The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories (calories in USA)
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The Malay word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooded field.
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Rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth.
M.
A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
N.
Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named for the Middle English word truck, meaning "barter" or "exchange of commodities"
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A flooded field for growing rice
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The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions.
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the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation
R.
Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
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A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sales, usually to a more developed country.
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The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
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A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
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A grass that yields grain for food.
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Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity.
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A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area.
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A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
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A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other diary products.
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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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The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.
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A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
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The capture of wild fish and other seafood living in the waters.

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