AP Human Unit 5

A large-scale farming enterprise

Farming practices diffused across the surface of the earth
Example:Sauer believes originated in SE Asia – diversity of climate and topography encourage wide variety of plants for dividing and transplanting

Altering the behaviors, size and genetics of animals to benefit humans
Examples: horses, cows, pigs - taming, breeding practices

The farming of aquatic organisms
Example: fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and aquatic plants

The use of genetically altered crops and DNA manipulation in order to increase production
Example: Miracle Wheat seed

Farm or group of farms organized as a unit and managed and worker by a group of laborers under state supervision; communist countries
Example: farms in Communist Bloc

farmers and ranchers sell all of their output for money and buy their families' food at stores
Intensive - yields a large amount of output per acre through concentrated farming (uses a small amount of land)
extensive - yields a large amount of output per acre through less intensive farming (uses a large amount of land)

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
Example: plant corn in east field and tomatoes in west; flip the next year

Developing countries have some of their foreign in exchange for enacting conservation measures
Example:Madagascar agreement with France to increase amount of land for conservation in excange for Millions$

The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert
Example: Sahel region being over grazed and farmed

A type of intensive agriculture where two crops are harvested in the same field a year
Example: Taiwan, S. China – two harvests Alternate between wet rice in summer when rain high AND wheat, barley and other dry crops in the drier winter.

economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment;
Example: mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture

Economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
Example: Timber to lunber

Economic activity associated with the provision fo services
Examples: transportation, banking, retailing, education, routine, office-based jobs

Service sector industires concerned with the collection, processing, and manipuation of information and capital
Example: finance, administration, insurance, legal services