APHG - U5 Agriculture Vocabulary -Baer

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Which Agricultural Revolution was characterized by the first use of mechanized farming?

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2nd Agricultural Revolution

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global movement of plants and animals between the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and New World (the Americas) after the age of exploration.

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Columbian Exchange

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small-scale farming, mostly in LDCs, focused on raising food for direct consumption of a family or community.

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subsistence agriculture

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large-scale farming, mostly in MDCs, focused on raising one type of crop or animal to sell for profit.

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commercial agriculture

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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

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Enclosure Acts

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the advances in plant biology that helped to develop higher yields, resistance to diseases, and faster growing varieties of grains during the Third Agricultural Revolution

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The Green Revolution

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breeding together two plants that have desirable characteristics

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hybridization

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Use of engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed.

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GMO

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commercial agriculture integrated with the food-processing industry, usually through ownership of large corporations, mostly found in MDCs

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agribusiness

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agriculture that uses fewer inputs of capital, effort per individual, and overall manpower

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Extensive