Agricultural Concepts and Climate Terminology

________ is the average pattern of weather over a long period of time. Climate influences the type of agriculture that a farmer chooses.

• Climate

• Weather

• Tropical Wet Climate

• Monsoon

A plant that is deliberately planted, protected, cared for, and used by humans and is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors.

• Farmers

• Domesticated plant

• Domesticated animal

• Agriculture

The arrangement of shapes on Earth’s surface.

• Physical geography

• Nutrients

• Topography

• surface

 A climate that receives about 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 centimeters) of rain annually that can support farming.

• Arid Climate

• Moderate

• Humid

• Semiarid Climate

A climate with winter precipitation, unusually mild winters, and clear skies with abundant sunshine; found along the Mediterranean Sea and a few coastal regions.

• Mediterranean

• Sub Humid

• Continental

• Humid Continental

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

• Subsistence agriculture

• Intensive agriculture

• Commercial agriculture

Food production mainly for consumption by the farming family and local community, rather than principally for sale in the market.

• Food Agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture

• Intensive Agriculture

• Extensive Agriculture

Agriculture that involves cutting small plots in forests or woodlands, burning the cuttings to clear the ground and release nutrients, and planting in the ash of the cleared plot.

• Slash-and-burn (swidden) agriculture

• Shifting cultivation

• Intercropping

• Tundra

Survey system that uses natural features such as trees, boulders, and streams to delineate property boundaries.

• Township and range

• Long-lot survey system

• Metes and bounds

• Survey methods