Untitled Flashcard Set

  1. Agribusiness

  2. Agrichemicals

  3. Aquaculture

  4. Arid climate

  5. Bid-rent theory

  6. Biodiversity

  7. Biofuel

  8. Biodiesel

  9. Biotechnology

  10. Capital expenditures

  11. Carrying capacity

  12. Cassava

  13. CBD (Central Business District)

  14. Central business district (CBD)

  15. Cluster farming

  16. Clustered settlement pattern

  17. Commercial agriculture

  18. Community-supported agriculture

  19. Concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO)

  20. Conservation tillage

  21. Crossbreeding

  22. Dairying

  23. Dispersed settlement pattern

  24. Division of labor

  25. Domestication

  26. Double-cropping

  27. Ecological contamination

  28. Economies of scale

  29. Environmental contamination

  30. Export commodities

  31. Extensive agriculture

  32. Fair trade

  33. Fertile Crescent

  34. Fertilizer

  35. First Agricultural Revolution

Terms 47–91

  1. Food desert

  2. French long-lot system

  3. Genetically modified organism (GMO)

  4. Global supply chain

  5. Grain farming

  6. Green Revolution

  7. High-yield seed

  8. Hinterland

  9. Herbicide/pesticides/fungicides

  10. Intensive agriculture

  11. Intercropping

  12. Intertillage

  13. Large-scale commercial operation

  14. Livestock fattening

  15. Livestock ranching

  16. Local-food movement

  17. Market gardening

  18. Mechanized farming

  19. Metes and bounds

  20. Mixed crop/livestock agriculture

  21. Monocropping/monoculture

  22. Multicropping

  23. Nomadic herding (pastoralism)

  24. Nutrient pollution

  25. Organic farming

  26. Paddy rice farming

  27. Pastoral nomadism

Terms 92–127

  1. Plantation agriculture

  2. Proprietary seeds

  3. Rural settlement pattern

  4. Rural survey method

  5. Second Agricultural Revolution

  6. Seed drill

  7. Shifting cultivation

  8. Soil salinization

  9. Staple crop

  10. Suitcase farm

  11. Synthetic fertilizer

  12. Terrace farming

  13. Topography

  14. Townships and range

  15. Traditional agriculture

  16. Urban farming

  17. Valley-added specialty crops

  18. Von Thünen's model

  19. Water mining