Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz

The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space

• orbit

• tilt

Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator

• Solstice

• tilt

Overall weather in an area over a long period of time

• Climate

• Weather

All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97% of which is in oceans

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle

• Biosphere

• Lithosphere

agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.

• commercial agriculture

• subsistence agriculture

form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.

• pastoral nomadism

• plantation farming

A form of commercial livestock production where cattle is used for the processing of milk and other dairy products.

• nomadic herding

• dairy farming

the raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other byproducts such as leather and wool.

• livestock ranching

• commercial gardening

dating back 10,000 years, achieved plant domestication and animal domestication

• First Agricultural Revolution

• Third Agricultural Revolution