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21 Cards in this Set
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The deliberate effort to modify a portion of earths surface though the cultivation of crops and raising livestocks for sustenance and economic gain |
Agriculture |
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A grass yielding grain for food |
Cereal grain |
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Husks of grain separated from seed by threshing |
Chaff |
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A machine that reaps, threshes , and cleans gram while moving over a field |
Combine |
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Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season |
Crop |
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The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soul |
Crop rotation |
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Harvesting twice a year from the same field |
Double cropping |
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Seeds of cereal grass |
Grain |
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The growing of fruits, vegetables , flowers |
Horticulture |
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The outer covering of seeds |
Hull |
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A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land |
Intensive subsistence agriculture |
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The area surrounding a city from which milk is applied |
Milkshed |
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A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals |
Pastoral nomadism |
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A machine that cuts grain standing in a field |
Reaper |
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A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another |
Shifting cultivation |
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Another name for shifting cultivation |
Slash and burn agriculture |
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Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by farmer and family |
Subsistence agriculture |
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To out grains from stalk by trampling it |
Thresh |
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The seasoned migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures |
Transhumance |
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To convert animals to domestic uses |
Animal domestication |
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Transformation of hunting and gather societies to farming |
First agricultural revolution |
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