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crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods
  • Root crops
  • Green revolution
  • Genetically modified organisms
  • Plant domestication
Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco
  • luxury crops
  • seed crops
  • agribusiness
  • root crops
Also called the Public Land Survey, the system was used by the US Land Office Survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The system divides land into a series of rectangular parcels.
  • rectangular survey system
  • township and range system
  • second agricultural revolution
  • metes and bounds system
Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics
  • organic agriculture
  • luxury crops
  • livestock ranching
  • climatic regions
the purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber
  • animal domestication
  • root crops
  • monoculture
  • agriculture
crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants
  • root crops
  • genetically modified organisms
  • luxury crops
  • seed crops
A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. Because of the imprecise nature of metes and bounds surveying, the U.S. Land Office Survey abandoned the technique in favor of the rectangular survey system.
  • township and range system
  • metes and bounds system
  • subsistence agriculture
  • rectangular survey system
self sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology & emphasizes food production for local consumption, not trade
  • subsistence agriculture
  • commercial agriculture
  • slash-and-burn agriculture
  • shifting cultivation
cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegitation has been removed by cutting and burning
  • slash-and-burn agriculture
  • livestock ranching
  • plantation agriculture
  • shifting cultivation
term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor fores, and the latest technoloty
  • quaternary economic activity
  • organic agriculture
  • subsistence agriculture
  • commercial agriculture
genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control
  • shifting cultivation
  • livestock ranching
  • animal domestication
  • agriculture
crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants
  • luxury crops
  • seed crops
  • root crops
  • agriculture
service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge skill (scientific research, high-level management)
  • quaternary economic activity
  • primary economic activity
  • tertiary economic activity
  • quinary economic activity
dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce
  • Green Revolution
  • First Agricultural Revolution
  • Third Agricultural Revolution
  • Second Agricultural Revolution
see shifting cultivation; cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegitation has been removed by cutting and burning
  • slash-and-burn agriculture
  • shifting cultivation
  • commercial agriculture
  • secondary economic activity
the development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe.
  • Second Agricultural Revolution
  • Subsistence Agriculture
  • Monoculture
  • Green Revolution
A model that explains the location of agricultureal activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market
  • root crops
  • commercial agriculture
  • climatic regions
  • von Thunen model
Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Almost all plantations were established within the tropics; in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings or reorganized as cooperatives
  • commercial agriculture
  • agribusiness
  • organic agriculture
  • plantation agriculture
Dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
  • First Agricultural Revolution
  • Second Agricultural Revolution
  • Third Agricultural Revolution
  • Green Revolution
genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention
  • shifting cultivation
  • organic agriculture
  • plant domestication
  • livestock ranching
the raising of domesticated animals for the produciton of meat and byproducts (leather, wool)
  • animal domestication
  • livestock ranching
  • shifting cultivation
  • commercial agriculture
service sector industires concerned with the collection, processing, and manipuation of information and capital (finance, administration, insurance, legal services)
  • quinary economic activity
  • tertiary economic activity
  • secondary economic activity
  • quaternary economic activity
economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
  • primary economic activity
  • quinary economic activity
  • tertiary economic activity
  • secondary economic activity
approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicieds, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs
  • genetically modified organisms
  • shifting cultivation
  • plant domestication
  • organic agriculture
specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails (grapes, olives, figs, citrus, fruits, dates, et al0
  • tertiary economic activity
  • Mediterranean agriculture
  • quaternary economic activity
  • quinary economic activity
General term for the businesses that provide the vast array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry
  • plant domestication
  • primogeniture
  • agribusiness
  • plantation agriculture
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