AP Human Geography V
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- Green Revolution
- successful recent development of higher yield, faster growing varieties of rice & other cereals in certain developing countries (ie. Mexico, India, China, Vietnam, ...) that led to increased productivity and reduced the gap between growing population and food needs.
- Subsistence Agriculture
- self sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology & emphasizes food production for local consumption, not trade
- Horticulture
- art and science of growing fruits, plants, and ornamental flowers
- Spring Wheat
- wheat variety planted in the spring for harvest in the summer or fall
- Plantation
- a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation & organized to produce a cash crop
- Mediterranean Agriculture
- specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails (grapes, olives, figs, citrus, fruits, dates, et al0
- Long-lot survey
- system implemented in Quebec, Louisiana, Texas or areas of French influence, that divide the land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals
- Milkshed
- the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
- Slash and burn
- cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. These cleanings are usually abandoned after a few years in favor of newly cleared forestland.
- Organic Agriculture
- crops produced without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers
- Maladaptive diffusion
- diffusion in which image takes precedence over practicality (ie. ranch style house)
- Luxury crops
- crops that are considered nonessential - cocao, coffee, tea, tobacco
- Metes and bounds survey
- a system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains. Depends on descriptions of land ownership and natural features
- Township and Range System
- a rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the US interior
- Second Agricultural Revolution
- tools and equipment were modified, methods of soil preparation, fertilization, crop care, and harvesting improved the general organization of agriculture made more efficient
- Rectangular long lots
- a public land survey system used by the US Land Office to parcel land west of the Appalacian Mts. It divides land into a series of rectangular parcels.
- Primogeniture
- system where the eldest son in a family, or in exceptional cases, a daughter inherits all of the parent's land
- Pastoral Nomadism
- involves the raising of animals which provide for most of the needs of their well being
- Intensive subsistence farming
- extreme form of living off the land for what you need to survive.
- Nucleated settlement
- a compact closely packed settlement sharply demarcated from adjoining farmland