Human geography Exam Review

Cards (20)

  • Agriculture- The Art and Science of Cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock.
  • First Neolithic Agriculture Revolution- The start of Farming, where humans first took up farming of plants and animals.
  • Second Agriculture Revolution- Increasing of a new farm method, though mechanization.
  • What Was During the Industrial revolution?
    Second Agriculture Revolution
  • The Green Revolution- Increasing in production of food grains, with better farming equipment. Using Crop Yield.
  • Whats the third revolution?
    The green revolution
  • What are the four different types of agriculture?
    Subsistence Agriculture, Commercial Agriculture, Intensive Farming, and Extensive Farming.
  • Whats Shifting cultivation?
    Moving planting from one field to another. Cleaning land by burning it
  • Pastoral Nomadism: The movement of Animals to different territories constantly.
  • Plantation Farming: Large land of commercial farming in one crop.
  • Mixed Crop Live Stock- Where Multiple cropping in one land to feed livestock on the same farm.
  • Grain Farming- Grow crops used for animal feed or as food for people.
  • Market Gardening- Growing vegetables and fruits for freezing and canning.
  • Dairy farming- Long term production for milk using cows.
  • Mediterranean Agriculture- Putting crops in a dry and hot summer and a cool and wet winter.
  • Live Stock Ranching- Raising a lot of animals on a large land.
  • Whats metes and bounds?
    Limits or boundaries of a land, by natural land marks.
  • Whats township and range?
  • Township and range- Land is divided using lines of latitude and longitude.
  • Long Lot- Land is divided into long, narrow lots that run to a river or road.