Unit 5: Agricultural Regions and Systems

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering agricultural systems, revolutions, and spatial models based on the lecture notes.

subsistence farming

farming for foverity

commercial agriculture

Farm to sell product for money

Shifting Cultivation

A subsistence farming system in tropical forests involving clearing land until soil fertility declines, then moving to a new plot to let the old recover; occurs on a small scale.

Intensive agriculture

Farming that requires many labor on small land, such as rice farming.

Extensive agriculture

Farming that requires less labor on many land, such as calle or wheat farming.

First agricultural revolution

The transition from Hunter to Farmer.

Pastoral Nomadism

Dry, subsistence-based agriculture involving traveling with animals in search for water.

Plantation Farming

Large scale commercial farming in tropical regions producing a single cash crop for export.

Mixed Crop & Livestock

A large scale commercial system in the US midwest where crops and animals are grown on the same farm.

Second Agricultural Revolution

Development characterized by the Parking machine.

Green Revolution

Development characterized by Machine Science.

deforestation

Clearing of forest for agricultural use.

desertification

Downgrade of land because of over usage.

Agribisness

Large companies controlling aspects of agriculture.

food desert

Lack of food.

commodity chain

The process of gathering resources to selling to consumers involving: $1$) Grow (Farms), $2$) Process & package (food manufacturer), $3$) Transport (shippers, distributers), $4$) Sell (markets, restorants), and $5$) buy (people).

Von Thunen model Ring $1$

Dairy Fruits, vegatable; these items are included here because they are easily perishable.

Von Thunen model Ring $2$

wood/forests; these items are included here because they are heavy.

Von Thunen model Ring $3$

Grains; these items take longer to grow and are lighter to carry.

Von Thunen model Ring $4$

Livestock; these require space to roam and are located where land is less expensive than inner rings.