AP HUGE Ch 10 Vocab

Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations is...

• Agribusiness

• Agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture

The time when humans beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering is...

• The Green revolution

• The Agricultural revolution

The deliberate effort to modify a portion of earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain is...

• Herding

• Crop rotation

• Agriculture

The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions is called aquaculture.

• True

• False

Cereal grain is...

• A grass that yields grain for food

• Literally cereal

• Wheat

Husks off grain separated from the seed by threshing are...

• Crop

• Cereal grain

• Chaff

What is a machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field?

• A tractor

• A combine

• A lawnmower

Commercial agriculture is agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm

• True

• False

Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season is (a/an)...

• Crop

• Wheat

• Livestock

What is crop rotation?

• Moving to a different field every few years with all of one's crops

• The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.