AP Human Geography Vocab. 9

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

• Agriculture

• Agribusiness

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)

• Ridge Tillage

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

• Desertification

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Green 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.

• Gentrification

• Desertificaiton

• Agriculture

• Agribusiness

The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions.

• Commercial Agriculture

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Aquaculture (Aquafarming)

• Agriculture

A grass that yields grain for food.

• Wet Rice

• Paddy

• Grain

• Cereal Grain

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

• Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming

• Commercial Agriculture

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Slash-and-burn Agriculture

Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.

• Sawah

• Paddy

• Crop

• Wet Rice

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

• Crop Rotation

• Double Cropping

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Shifting Cultivation

A form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other dairy products.

• Fishing

• Dairy Farm

• Milkshed

• Milking

Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid land degradation.

• Erosion

• Transhumance

• Desertification

• Shifting Cultivation