Unit 5 Topic 1 Vocabulary Practice

A climate with winter precipitation, unusually mild winters, and clear skies wit abundant sunshine

• Polar climate
• Continental climate
• Mediterranean climate
• Tropical climate

Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that use HIGH levels of labor and capital relative to the size of the landholding

• Intensive farming

• Extensive farming
• Commercial farming

• Organic farming

Crop cultivation and livestock rearing systems that require little hired labor or monetary investment to successfully raise crops and animals

• Intensive farming

• Extensive farming
• Commercial farming

• Organic farming

A small-scale farming systems in which a farmer plants one to a few acres that produce a diverse mixture of vegetables and fruits for sale in local/regional markets

• Mixed Crop Livestock

• Plantation Agriculture

• Paddy Rice Farming

• Market Gardening

A large landholding devoted to capital-intensive specialized production of a single tropical or subtropical crop

• Shifting Cultivation

• Plantation Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Truck Farming

A diversified system of agriculture based on the cultivation of cereal grains/roots crops with herd livestock

• Mixed Crop Livestock

• Shifting Cultivation

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

• Livestock Ranching

A system of rice cultivation on small fields that are flooded with 4-6 inches of water for about 3/4 of the growing season

• Market Gardening

• Dairy Farming

• Grain Farming

• Paddy Rice Farming

A farming system that specializes in the breeding, rearing, and utilizing of livestock to produce milk and its by-products (cheese, butter, yogurt)

• Dairy Farming

• Livestock Ranching

• Mixed Crop Livestock

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)

Animal rearing that confines livestock in high-density cages only large enough to allow the animals body to grow and remove waste

• Dairy Farming

• Livestock Ranching

• Mixed Crop Livestock

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)

The system of breeding and rearing herd livestock, such as cattle, sheep, or goats, by following the seasonal movement of rainfall to areas of open pastureland

• Dairy Farming

• Livestock Ranching

• Nomadic Herding (Pastoral Nomadism)

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)