5.1-5.6

organic agriculture

• A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market.
• economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
• Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
• Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.

primary economic activity

• cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearing in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning
• A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market.
• Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.
• economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment-- such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture

secondary economic activity

• Economic activity associated with the provision of services - such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs.
• Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
• economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
• Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.

tertiary economic activity

• economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
• genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control
• genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention
• Economic activity associated with the provision of services - such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs.

quarternary economic activity

• dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm products.
• Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade.
• Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
• Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services.

quinary economic activity

• Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's)
• A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market.
• Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade.
• Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.

plant domestication

• crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants
• Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade.
• genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention
• Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.

root crops

• crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants
• Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.
• crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants
• genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control

seed crops

• Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
• economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment-- such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture
• Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's)
• crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants

First Agricultural Revolution

• dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm products.
• Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.
• Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
• Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's)