APES Chapters 9 + 10 Vocab

Land use to raise plants for human use

Pasture; land used for grazing livestock

Cultivating, harvesting, storing, and distributing crops performed by human and animal muscle power along with hand tools and simple machines

Farming families produce only enough food for themselves and do not make use of large-scale irrigation, fertilizer, or teams of laboring animals

Uses draft animals and employs significant quantities or irrigation water and fertilizer, but it stops short of using fossil fuels

Vast fields are planted with single types of crops to be efficient

-a phenomenon where industrialized agriculture spread from developed nations to developing nation-an intensification of the industrialization of agriculture in the developing world in the latter half of the 20^th century that has dramatically increased crop yields produced per unit area of farmland

Base geological material in a particular location

Continuous mass of solid rock that makes up Earth's crust

Physical, chemical, and biological processes that break down rocks and minerals, turning large particles into smaller particles

Breaks rocks down without triggering a chemical change in the parent materialExamples?

Water or other substances chemically interact with parent material

Living things break down parent material by physical or chemical meansexamples?

Movement of soil from one area to another

A dark, spongy, crumbly mass of material made up of complex organic compounds