AP Human Geography: Vocabulary Quiz

Define Aquaculture

• The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• Capturing Fish faster than they can reproduce

• Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry

• The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.

Define Overfishing

• The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• Capturing Fish faster than they can reproduce

• Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry

• The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.

Define Agribusiness

• The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• Capturing Fish faster than they can reproduce

• Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry

• The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.

Define Monoculture

• The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• Capturing Fish faster than they can reproduce

• Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry

• The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.

Define Horticulture

• The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

• Commercial gardening and fruit farming

• Agriculture practiced in areas with a mediterranean climate

• Commercial farming characterized by the integration of crops and livestock

Define Truck Farming

• The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

• Commercial gardening and fruit farming

• Agriculture practiced in areas with a mediterranean climate

• Commercial farming characterized by the integration of crops and livestock

Define Mediterranean Agriculture

• The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

• Commercial gardening and fruit farming

• Agriculture practiced in areas with a mediterranean climate

• Commercial farming characterized by the integration of crops and livestock

Define Mixed crop and livestock farming

• The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

• Commercial gardening and fruit farming

• Agriculture practiced in areas with a mediterranean climate

• Commercial farming characterized by the integration of crops and livestock

Define Milkshed

• The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied

• A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area

• Places where livestock are concentrated in very small area and raised on hormones.

• Degradation of land primarily because of human actions

Define Ranching

• The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied

• A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area

• Places where livestock are concentrated in very small area and raised on hormones.

• Degradation of land primarily because of human actions