Chapter 22 Vocabulary

Chapter 22 Vocabulary

Subsistence Farming: disposal of waist products

Shifting Farming: the movement of people from rural areas into cities.

Sedentary Farming: a crack in the earth’s surface created by shifting tectonic plates.

Commercial Farming: to adapt plants and animals from the wild to make them useful to people.

Cash Crop: policy of strict separation of the races adopted in South Africa in the 1940’s

Conversation Farming: equal voting rights for all adult citizens of a nation.

Infrastructure: popular culture spread by media such as television and the radio.

E-Commerce: a common language used among people with different native languages.

Habitat: stories passed down for generation to generation by word of mouth.

Extinction: household made up of several generations of family members.

Poaching: tribal community or large group of people related to one another.

Ecotourism: family group made up of husband, wife and children.