Hum Geo chap 13

simple words + def

Pastoral nomandism

People(most probably farmers) travel place to place in drylands like in drylands like north africa

Shifting cultivation

farmers form tropical climates move from field to field

Plantation

A large commercial farm for one crop usually in tropical areas

Mixed crop/Livestock farming

crops that mainly fed to livestock to fatten them up and use their waste as fertilizer

Grain farming

Growing wheat in dry places

Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado grow what type of wheat?

These three states grow winter wheat (planted in the fall picked in the summer)

Montana, South dakota, north dakota, and parts of canada grow ___ wheat.

These states grow Spring wheat, planted in spring picked in fall.

______ are the worlds top producers in wheat

China india and russia...

Commercial gardening/market gardening/truck farming

Products usually for canning or freezing, lettuce, tomatos, broccolis, oranges and apples.

a consequence of dairy farming

dairy production increases while the number of farms decrease

Mediterranean agriculture

practiced in regions with hot dry summers and mild winters in narrow valleys, figs and olives are grown.

Transhumance

the seasonal herding of animals in a confined specific area

This agricultural region often practices Transhumance

Mediterranean agriculture often practices...

Live stock ranching

commercial grazing of animals a confined specific area

Extensive farming includes...

nomadic herding, ranching and shifting cultivation

Intensive land use

involves greater input of capital/paid labor in relation to the intensive farming of that area.

Double cropping

the planting and harvesting on the same land twice a year

inter-cropping

farmers grow two or more crops simultaneously on the same field

agribusiness

the fusing of various types of production in the food processing industry

Supply chain

The system of producer transportstion, communication train, resources, and consumers.

Mono culture

Raising a single cash crop on large areas of land

Suitcase farm

Farmers who live nearby work there but dont live there

Commodity chain

a process used by corporations to gather reasources and then transform them into good to seel to consumers

Luxury crops

Expensive tropical foods that arent neccissary for survivial

Neocolonialism

the use of economic, political and social pressures to control former colonies.

fair trade movement

A movement that tries to create awareness of the disparity between high incomes and low incomes in develope dand developing countries and promote higher incomes for more sustainable farming practices