AP Human Geography Chapter 10 Vocab

Agribusiness

Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.

Agriculture

Cereal Grain

combine

commercial agriculture

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.

crop

crop rotation

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.

desertification

the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert

double cropping

Harvesting twice a year from the same field.

grain

green revolution

A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.

pastoral nomadism

plantation

shifting cultivation

slash and burn agriculture

subsistence agriculture

sustainable agriculture

Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.

Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning batering or the exchange of commodities.

reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants