Unit 5 - Agriculture (Articulation)

Consists of raising and growing plants and animals for human use

• domestication
• shifting agriculture
• intensive farming
• commercial farming
• overgrazing

The global movements of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas

• Columbian Exchange
• Green Revolution
• Second Agricultural Revolution
• First Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

Mid-20th century with the advances in plant biology; the development of higher-yielding, disease-resistant, faster-growing varieties of grains

• Green Revolution
• Columbian Exchange
• Second Agricultural Revolution
• First Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

One of the earliest agricultural practices, all vegetation in an area of forest is cut down and burned; also known as slash-and-burn agriculture

• shifting agriculture
• intensive farming
• commercial farming
• domestication
• hunting and gathering

A form of subsistence agriculture practiced in the developing world, people travel from place to place with their herds of domesticated animals

• pastoral nomadism
• intensive farming
• shifting agriculture
• commercial farming
• extensive farming

A farm in which no one lives on the farm and the harvesting and planting is performed by farmers who live nearby or migratory labor

• suitcase farm
• linear settlement
• dispersed settlement
• empty farm
• abandoned land

Agriculture that involves greater inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the space being used

• intensive farming
• shifting agriculture
• commercial farming
• extensive farming
• pastoral nomadism

The transition of land from fertile to desert

• desertification
• aquifer depletion
• deforestation
• wetland destruction
• soil degredation

Providing the best outcomes for human and natural environments both in the present and for the future. Relates to development that meets today's needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

• sustainability
• carrying capacity
• organic farming
• desertification
• wetland destruction

The reduction in available water for consumption due to pumps; ground water depletion

• aquifer depletion
• deforestation
• wetland destruction
• soil degredation
• desertification