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AP Human Geography Unit 5 Vocab Match
Match the word to the definition in Unit 5 of the AP Human Geography course.
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A type of agriculture that produces perishable items that farmers need to get to the market quickly.
When soil in an arid climate has been irrigated for use as farmland and the water evaporates, leaving salt residue behind that eventually causes the land to become infertile.
The process of diverting water from its natural course or location to aid in the production of crops.
The global movement of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas following the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492,
An effort to promote higher incomes for farmers, particularly in developing countries, and to protect workers’ rights.
The removal of large tracts of forest by natural or manmade means.
Agriculture that involves greater inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used.
Land that is capable of producing food and suitable for farming.
Beginning in the 1700s, the advances of the Industrial Revolution were used to increase food supplies and support population growth.
A chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
Food produced without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or other unnatural processes.
An integrated system where crops grown are used to feed the livestock on the same farm.
The maximum number of people that an environment can support.
Agriculture that uses fewer inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used.
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
The practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around towns or cities.
The revolution that began in the 1960s and included the Green Revolution. It was marked by an agribusiness model and involved better and more efficient farming equipment and practices.
A process used by corporations to gather resources and transform them into goods, then transport them to customers.
The theory that when something is in high demand (land near the market), it is going to cost more.
Farming that involves moving crops from one field to another, clearing the land by burning the vegetation.
The commercial grazing of animals confined to a specific area.
Large commercial farming specializing in one crop.
The movement of herds of animals to different pastures within a territory.
Agriculture practiced in regions with hot dry summers and mild winters, narrow valleys, and simple vegetation systems.
A rural settlement pattern where family homes and farm buildings are located close together, with farmland surrounding them.
Raising plants and animals for human use.
The integration of various steps of production in the food-processing industry.
Raising animals for the purpose of harvesting milk.
A community where there is no access to fresh, healthy, affordable food options because there is a lack of food or grocery stores or farmers markets.
A region of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East.
Use of the Earth’s resources that ensure their availability for future generations to use.
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
A crop whose genetic structure has been altered to make it more useful for human purposes.
Specializing in the growing of a single crop.
The origin of farming, marked by the initial domestication of plants and animals.
The transition of land from fertile to arid.
A rural survey method where land is divided based on the features of the physical landscape and distance and direction.
Growing of grains, primarily wheat, for the consumption of people.
A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms that are harmful to cultivated plants or animals.
A settlement pattern in which farms are clustered along a road with fields behind them.
A farm on which no one lives and the planting and harvesting is performed by farmers who live nearby or by migrant workers.
An economic model that suggested a pattern for the types of products that farmers would produce at different positions relative to the market where they sold their goods.
A geographical theory that states that the interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases.
When soil loses its ability to support plant growth and is more easily eroded by wind or water.
When humans build a series of steps into the side of a hill, creating flat surfaces for the purpose of agriculture.
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
The practice of raising and harvesting fish and other forms of food that live in water.
Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a fast rate.
When crops are grown for profit only and not for personal consumption.
A rural survey method used by the French and in regions of North America previously dominated by the French that involves long rectangular plots of farmland along rivers that have equal access to the water.
The development of higher yielding, disease-resistant, faster-growing varieties of grains.
A series of laws enacted by the British Government that enabled landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use that had previously been common land used by peasant farmers.
Crops that are not essential to human survival but have a high profit margin.
When farmers grow food crops to feed themselves and their families.
The planting and harvesting of the same parcel of land twice a year.
Growing of fruits and vegetables, primarily for the purpose of freezing and canning.
A rural survey method where land is divided using latitude and longitude. Land is divided into large squares that can be subsequently divided into smaller squares.
Plots of land used for growing food that are farmed collectively and used to benefit the whole community.
Agribusiness
Aquaculture
Arable Land
Bid-Rent Theory
Biodiversity
Carrying Capacity
Clustered Settlement
Columbian Exchange
Commercial Agriculture
Commodity Chain
Community-Supported Agriculture
Crop Rotation
Dairy Farming
Deforestation
Desertification
Dispersed Settlement
Distance Decay
Domestication
Double Cropping
Enclosure Acts
Extensive Farming
Fair Trade Movement
Feedlot
Fertile Crescent
Fertilizer
Food Desert
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s)
Grain Farming
Green Revolution
Horticulture
Intensive Farming
Irrigation
Linear Settlement
Long Lot
Luxury Crops
Market Gardening
Mediterranean Farming
Metes & Bounds
Mixed Crop/Livestock Farming
Monoculture
Neolithic (First) Agricultural Revolution
Organic Food
Pastoral Nomadism
Pesticides
Plantation Farming
Ranching
Second Agricultural Revolution
Shifting Cultivation
Soil Degradation
Soil Salinization
Subsistence Agriculture
Suitcase Farm
Sustainability
Terrace Farming
Third Agricultural Revolution
Township & Range
Urban Agriculture
Von Thunen’s Land Use Model
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