Unit 5: Agriculture

Unit V: Vocabulary

A Vocabulary List for AP Human Geography

Martha Sharma

Retired teacher

Hilton Head, South Carolina

Unit V. Agricultural and Rural Land Use—Basic Vocabulary and Concepts

Adaptive strategies

Agrarian

Agribusiness

Agricultural industrialization

Agricultural landscape

Agricultural location model

Agricultural origins

Agriculture

Animal domestication

Aquaculture

Biorevolution

Biotechnology

Collective farm

Commercial agriculture (intensive,

extensive)

Core/periphery

Crop rotation

Cultivation regions

Dairying

Debt-for-nature swap

Diffusion

Double cropping

Economic activity (primary, secondary,

tertiary, quaternary, quinary)

Environmental modification (pesticides,

soil erosion, desertification)

Extensive subsistence agriculture

(shifting cultivation [slash-and-

burn, milpa, swidden], nomadic

herding/pastoralism)

Extractive industry

Farm crisis

Farming

Feedlot

First agricultural revolution

Fishing

Food chain

Forestry

Globalized agriculture

Green revolution

Growing season

Hunting and gathering

Intensive subsistence agriculture

Intertillage

Livestock ranching

Market gardening

Mediterranean agriculture

Mineral fuels

Mining

Planned economy

Plant domestication

Plantation agriculture

Renewable/nonrenewable

Rural settlement (dispersed, nucleated,

building material, village form)

Sauer, Carl O.

Second agricultural revolution

Specialization

Staple grains

Suitcase farm

Survey patterns (long lots, metes and

bounds, township-and-range)

Sustainable yield

Third agricultural revolution

(mechanization, chemical

farming, food manufacturing)

“Tragedy of the commons”

Transhumance

Truck farm

Von Thünen, Johann Heinrich