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13 Cards in this Set
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Von Thunen Theory (Model) |
The model for agricultural land use affected by cost of land and cost of transportation
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Renewable Resources |
Resources that can be regenerated in a person’s lifetime (lumber, solar, wind)
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Non Renewable resources |
Resources that cannot be regenerated (coal, oil, natural gas)
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Global Interdependence |
A condition in which people or groups rely on each other, rather than only relying on themselves (on a global scale)
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Primary Sector |
Agricultural activities that directly extracts materials from the earth (farming, mining, fishing, forestry)
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Secondary Sector |
Manufacturers that process, transform, and assemble raw materials into products
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Tertiary Sector |
Provides goods and services to people in exchange for money
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Subsistence Agriculture |
Agriculture that provides the basic needs of a family with little surplus
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Commercial agriculture |
Growing large quantities of crops or livestock in order to sell them for profit
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GMOs |
Genetically Modified Organisms; genetically altering livestock and agricultural products to prevent spoilage and promote growth
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Cash Crops |
Agricultural product that is grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family
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Green Revolution |
A program beginning in the 1960’s to produce higher-yielding, more productive strains of wheat, rice, and other food crops
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Salinization |
Fresh water becomes mixed with salt over time
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