Unit 5 Quizziz

Agriculture that requires large quantities of inputs (e.g., labor, capital, agricultural products) per unit of land

• Extensive Agriculture

• Tropical Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Intensive Agriculture

the production of one or more usually cash crops on a large swathe of land. It is most common in tropical climates where cash crops generally grow more naturally.

• Shifting cultivation

• Plantation Agriculture

• Mediterranean Agriculture

• Domestication

A form of subsistance agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to the other; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.

• Intensive Farming

• Fallow Grazing

• Shifting Cultivation

• Dairy Farming

This is an example of _______________, commonly found in the Western US.

• Metes and Bounds

• Township and Range

• Long Lot Survey

• Linear Settlement Pattern

the boundaries of a parcel of real estate that identified by its natural landmarks

• Long Lot

• Survey Method

• Metes and Bounds

• Township and Range

the process of using agricultural machinery to automate the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity.

• Mechanized Farming

• Domestication

• Hybrid Seeding

• Crop Rotation

form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family,

• Intensive farming

• Commercial Farming

• Subsistence Farming

• Survival Farming

the practice of growing the same crop on the same plot of land, year after year.

• Monocropping

• Single Cultivation

• Ranching

• Subsistence Farming

Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers

• The Second Agricultural Revolution

• The Medical Revolution

• The Agricultural Revolution

• The Green Revolution

Degradition of land, especially in semiarid areas primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting animal grazing, and tree cutting.

• Desalinization

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Monocropping