Chapter 13: Agricultural Regions Vocab

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Pastoral Nomadism involves herding livestock to find fresh pastures.

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Livestock are herded to find fresh pastures.

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What is Infrastructure?

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Basic physical and organizational structures (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) for society or enterprise.

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Livestock grazing over large areas while owners stay put is called:

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Ranching

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Subsidies are:

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Public support from the government.

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Subsistence agriculture where farmers move fields:

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Shifting Cultivation

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Effort to promote higher incomes for producers and sustainable farming:

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Fair Trade Movement

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A plantation is:

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A large commercial farm that specializes in one crop.

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Neocolonialism is:

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The use of economic, political, and social pressures to control former colonies.

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Commercial gardening and fruit farming is known as:

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Market Gardening

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Luxury crops are:

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Crops not essential to human survival but with high profit margins.