AP Human Geography Vocab Test 8

Lingua franca

A second language held in common for international discourse

Organic agriculture

Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs

horticulture

The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

GMO

Any organism that has had its DNA modified in a laboratory rather than through cross-pollination or other forms of evolution

Intensive farming

any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield

Neolithic Revolution

Achieved plant and animal domestication

Terrace

A farming system that is in the form of steps going up a mountain

biotechnology

use of genetically engineered crops in agriculture & DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production.

Economies of scale

Increase In Efficiency Of Production As The Number Of Goods Being Produced Increases

Green revolution

The recent introduction of high-yield hybrid crops an chemical fertilizers and pesticides into traditional Asian agricultural systems, most notably paddy rice farming, with attendant increases in production and ecological damage

Second Agricultural Revolution

Benefited from the industrial revolution. Witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce

Von Thunen Model

Explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy

Primogeniture

System which the eldest son in a family—or, in exceptional cases, daughter—inherits all of a dying parent’s land

Interfaith boundary

Boundaries between the world’s major faiths

Built landscape

Also called cultural landscape

Remittance

Money migrants send back to families and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poor countries

Aquifer

Subterranean, porous, water-holding rocks that provide millions of wells with steady flows of water.

Bioclimatic zone

Shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism are both examples of agricultural systems associated with major __________________

Commodity chain

Network of labor and production processes beginning with the extraction or production of raw materials and ending with the delivery of a finished commodity

Extensive farming

an agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area