AP HUG 5.1 Vocab - Salazar

Agriculture

Modifying the environment to raise plants or animals.

Commercial Agriculture

When the focus of agriculture is to produce a product to sell to other people.

Nomadic Herding / Pastoral Nomadism

Raising animals and traveling from place to place with them to find pasture for their animals. (Dry areas)

Plantation

A usually large commercial farm that specializes in one or two crops usually semi-tropical or tropical areas.

Ranching

Commercial agriculture that allows livestock to wander a large area to feed using for meat or wool.

Shifting Cultivation

(1) Subsistence agriculture form used in tropical ares that cuts down vegetation for burning which provides nourishment to the soil - every few years the farmer must move to a new location as the nutrients are gone and repeat.

Slash-and-burn Agriculture

(2) Subsistence agriculture form used in tropical ares that cuts down vegetation for burning which provides nourishment to the soil - every few years the farmer must move to a new location as the nutrients are gone and repeat.

Transhumance

Moving flocks into the highlands for summer and returning to lowlands for the winter

Extensive Agriculture

Agriculture that uses small amounts of labor on a large area of land.

Intensive Agriculture

Agriculture that uses a lot of labor on a small area of land.

Market Gardening

Small-scale, manual labor agricultural production of a variety of crops to be sold locally.

Mediterranean Climate

A climate with warm, dry summers and cool, mild winters found around the Mediterranean Sea.

Mixed Crop/Livestock

Agricultural system that cultivates crops and rears livestock on the same farm.

Commercial Gardening

The large-scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. U.S. Southeast; Truck farming; use machinery and/or migrant farm workers.

Subsistence Agriculture

When the focus of agriculture is to produce enough for to feed the family but with little, if any, profit.

Agribusiness

Farming as part of a larger food production system.

Grain farming

Crops are grown primarily for human consumption - sell output to manufacturers of food products, such as breakfast cereals and bread.