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Unit 5 Vocab

  1. Agricultural Practices 
  2. Land Use Patterns 
  3. Climactic Conditions  
  4. Tropical Climate 
  5. Mediterranean Climate 
  6. Market Gardening 
  7. Plantation Agriculture  
  8. Mixed Crop / Livestock Systems  
  9. Shifting Cultivation (slash and burn)  
  10. Intensive Farming Practices  
  11. Extensive Farming Practices  
  12. Nomadic Herding (Pastoral Nomadism / Transhumance) 
  13. Rural Settlement Patterns 
  14. Rural Land Use Patterns  
  15. Long-Lot Survey System 
  16. Metes and Bounds Survey System 
  17. Township and Range Survey System 
  18. Fertile Crescent  
  19. First Agricultural Revolution  
  20. Columbian Exchange  
  21. Globalization of Agriculture 
  22. Second Agriculture Revolution  
  23. Industrial Revolution  
  24. Green Revolution (Third Agricultural Revolution)  
  25. Subsistence Agriculture  
  26. Commercial Agriculture  
  27. Monoculture 
  28. Mono-Cropping 
  29. Multi-Cropping 
  30. Bid-Rent Theory 
  31. Agribusiness  
  32. Feedlots / Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)  
  33. Commodity Chain  
  34. Economics of Scale  
  35. Von Thünen Model 
  36. Global Supply Chain  
  37. Commodity Dependency  
  38. Global Food Distribution  
  39. Desertification  
  40. Soil Salinization  
  41. Land Cover Change 
  42. Pollution  
  43. Conservation Efforts of Agricultural Land 
  44. Sustainable Agriculture  
  45. Terraces  
  46. Irrigation  
  47. Deforestation  
  48. Draining Wetlands  
  49. Pastoral Nomadism  
  50. Agricultural Biotechnology  
  51. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)  
  52. Aquaculture  
  53. Value Added Foods  
  54. Organic Farming 
  55. Urban Farming 
  56. Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) 
  57. Fair Trade 
  58. Local-Food Movements  
  59. Dietary Shifts 
  60. Food Insecurity  
  61. Food Desert 
  62. Global Food Distribution 
  63. Food Distribution Problems 
  64. Adverse Weather 
  65. Suburbanization