APHG Unit 5 Vocabulary: Agriculture Review

Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps

• Aquaculture

• Agribusiness

• Seed Agriculture

• Subsistence Agriculture

The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• Vegetative Planting

• No tillage

• Organic Agriculture

• Aquaculture (Aquafarming)

The use of genetically altered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)

• Organic Agriculture

• Biotechnology

• Sustainable agriculture

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm building of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Clustered Rural Settlements

• Nucleated Settlement Pattern

• Rectangular Survey System

Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market

• Commodity Chain

• Truck Farming

• Transhumance

• Shifting Agriculture (Swidden Agriculture)

Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crops planting, animal grazing and tree cutting

• Wattle

• Metes and bounds

• No tillage

• Desertification (semiarid land degradation)

The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories

• Commodity Chain

• Dietary Energy Consumption

• Food Security

• Undernourishment

A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages

• Clustered Rural Settlement

• Village

• Linear Rural Settlement

• Dispersed Rural Settlement

Harvesting

twice a year from the same field

• Double Cropping

• Green Revolution

• No tillage

• Specialization

Fencing or hedging large blocks of land for experiments with new technique farming

• Vegetative Planting

• Labor Intensive Agriculture

• Enclosure

• Metes and bounds