5.1-5.5 Vocabulary

Agriculture encompasses:

• Only livestock rearing.

• Only soil cultivation.

• The science and practice of farming.

• Only commercial farming.

Subsistence agriculture is primarily focused on:

• Selling products for profit.

• Providing food for the farmer and their family.

• Large-scale production for global markets.

• Using advanced machinery.

Commercial agriculture is characterized by:

• Small-scale farming.

• Production for sale off the farm.

• Minimal exchange with the market.

• Primary focus on family sustenance.

Intensive subsistence agriculture is characterized by:

• Low labor input.

• High labor input per unit of land.

• Large-scale machinery use.

• Minimal irrigation.

Slash-and-burn agriculture is an example of:

• Intensive agriculture.

• Extensive agriculture.

• Dairy farming.

• Market gardening.

Large-scale wheat farming in the Great Plains is an example of:

• Intensive subsistence agriculture.

• Extensive commercial agriculture.

• Market gardening.

• Dairy farming.

"Capital" in agriculture refers to:

• Land area.

• Labor force.

• Money invested in machinery and technology.

• Crop yield.

Pastoral nomadism involves:

• Cultivating crops in one location.

• Herding domesticated animals and moving with them.

• Intensive greenhouse farming.

• Large-scale grain production.

"Pasture" refers to:

• Buildings for livestock.

• Grass grown for feeding grazing animals.

• Stored grain.

• Fertilizers.

Shifting cultivation involves:

• Rotating crops annually.

• Moving cultivation from one field to another.

• Intensive irrigation.

• Large-scale machinery use.