Technology and Environmental Geography

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using machines to make production more efficient, to simplify work, or to replace human/animal labor

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mechanization

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Device that uses the combustion of coal or other fuel to heat water and to produce energy

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steam engine

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the manufacturing of large quantities of standardized products, often using assembly lines or automation technology.​

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mass production

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the process of moving a society from an earlier power source to being powered by electrical currents​

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electrification

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During the Neolithic Revolution, what did people learn to do?

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People learned to grow food.

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(~10,000 BCE) instead of obtaining food by hunting and gathering, people began growing crops and raising animals

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Neolithic Revolution

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The Second Agricultural Revolution refers to

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the application of new machines and industrialization to agriculture

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What type of agriculture is: raising a large amount of a "cash crop" for local sale or export?

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plantation

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Farmers that produce food that they need to survive on a daily basis are called

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subsistence agriculture

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Deforestation has resulted in

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more farmland in some places but more desertification in others