AP Human Geog Unit 5 vocab review

A form of agricultural technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants or animals, or to develop other microorganisms for specific purposes

• Agricultural Hearth

• Biotechnology

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Primogeniture

Machine that cuts grain from the field

• Reaper

• Sawah

• Irrigation

• Combine

The origin of a type of agriculture or crop

• Agribusiness

• Horticulture

• Primary Sector

• Agricultural Hearth

A large-scale commercial business characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry

• Commercial agriculture

• Agribusiness

• Extensive subsistence agriculture

• Subsidies

The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming

• Commercial agriculture

• Aquaculture

• Agriculture

• Dairy Farming

The name given to all farming and rearing of fish and marine plants that does not fall under the category of fishing

• Aquaculture

• Agriculture

• Irrigation

• Seed agriculture

A crop grown for its commercial use rather than use by the grower

• Commercial agriculture

• Double cropping

• Grain farming

• Cash crop

A crop yielding from grain

• Commercial agriculture

• Cereal grains

• Corn belt

• Grain farming

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages and resulted in commercial agriculture and the trade of it

• Export Commodity

• Commodity Chain

• Green Revolution

• Columbian exchange

A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field

• Reaper

• Combine

• Crop rotation

• Land cover change