Ch. 11/12 Vocab

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Organic Agriculture

Back 1

Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.

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Agriculture

Back 2

The purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber.

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Primary Economic Activity

Back 3

Economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment-----such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture.

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Secondary Economic Activity

Back 4

Economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector.

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Tertiary Economic Activity

Back 5

Economic activity associated with the provision of services-----such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs.

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Quaternary Economic Activity

Back 6

Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services.

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Quinary Economic Activity

Back 7

Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge of technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.

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Plant domestication

Back 8

Genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention.

Front 9

Root Crop

Back 9

Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the roots of the cuttings from the plants.

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Seed Crop

Back 10

Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants.