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34 Cards in this Set
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Vegetative |
Cultivation |
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Dietary energy consumption |
Amount of food that an individual consumes |
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Wheat, rice, maize |
What do most people get there energy from cereal geian |
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Protein |
Nutrient needed for growth and maintenance of the human body |
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Food security |
Physical, social, economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life |
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Undernourishment |
Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum |
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Centripetal force |
Events of circumstances that help unite the people of states |
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Raison D’etre |
The person or reason for the initial existence of a state |
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Israel raison d’etre |
Créate homeland for jews |
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Pakistan’s raison D’etre |
To create Muslim majority state apart from india |
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Centrifugal forces |
Events or circumstances that divide and split the people of a state |
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Neolithic revolution |
Produce more in the same amount of space |
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Artic, interior of Africa, Australia and South America |
Where do hunter and gatherers exist |
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Crop yields |
Amount of crop produced per unit or area of land |
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Moldboard plow |
Curved metal plat that enabled farmers to turn over heavy soils |
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Cotton gin |
Quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from seeds |
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Horse collar |
Horses had more endurance than the oxen farms used prior |
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Seed drill |
Placed seed directly into small holes lined in rows |
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Moldboard plow |
Curved metal plat that enabled farmers to turn over heavy soils |
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Cotton gin |
Quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from seeds |
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Horse collar |
Horses had more endurance than the oxen farms used prior |
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Seed drill |
Placed seed directly into small holes lined in rows |
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Cotton gin, horse collar, moldboard plow and seed drill |
4 inventions that raised crop yields |
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4 course crop rotation |
System that is based on four year planting regime, in which different crops are grown in the same field to maintain soil fertility |
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Soil fertility |
Ability of a soil to sustain agricultural plant growth |
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Fallow |
Plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation as to avoid surplus production |
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Cultivate |
Prepare and use land for crops of gardening |
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Norman borlaug |
Who started green revolution |
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Green revolution |
Goal was to alleviate world hunger (Pakistan, Mexico, India) |
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Biotechnology |
Improving livestock and crops through genetic engineering |
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Gmos |
Created by taking genes from one organism and inserting them into another |
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Monstanto |
Company that creates GMOs |
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Terminator seeds |
GMOs seeds created by Monsanto that do no produce offspring; farmers are forced to purchase new seeds each year, recently banned |
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Organic agriculture |
Relies on natural cycles rather than synthetic inputs |
