World Food Supply vocab

food crop

• fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops (including floriculture)

•  a food that makes up a dominant part of a population’s diet

• any fruit, vegetable, or grain harvested to feed people

• a specialized plant stem that stores excess food for the plant

intensive subsistence agriculture

• a highly specialized type of farming that takes place in areas with very hilly landscapes or narrow strips of land along a coast

• a type of farming done primarily by hand or with the use of livestock on small plots of land

• a type of farming that involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock on the same land or farm

• a form of agriculture in which an area of land is cleared of vegetation, cultivated for a few years, and later abandoned for a new area until its nutrients have been naturally restored

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Mediterranean farming

• the continual herding of livestock to areas where there is pasture available

• a form of agriculture in which an area of land is cleared of vegetation, cultivated for a few years, and later abandoned for a new area until its nutrients have been naturally restored

• a type of farming that involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock on the same land or farm

• a highly specialized type of farming that takes place in areas with very hilly landscapes or narrow strips of land along a coast

mixed crop and livestock farming

• a type of farming done primarily by hand or with the use of livestock on small plots of land

• a highly specialized type of farming that takes place in areas with very hilly landscapes or narrow strips of land along a coast

• a type of farming that involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock on the same land or farm

• the continual herding of livestock to areas where there is pasture available

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

pastoral nomadism

• the continual herding of livestock to areas where there is pasture available

• a form of agriculture in which an area of land is cleared of vegetation, cultivated for a few years, and later abandoned for a new area until its nutrients have been naturally restored

• a highly specialized type of farming that takes place in areas with very hilly landscapes or narrow strips of land along a coast

• a type of farming done primarily by hand or with the use of livestock on small plots of land

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

shifting cultivation

• a type of farming done primarily by hand or with the use of livestock on small plots of land

•  a type of farming that involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock on the same land or farm

• the continual herding of livestock to areas where there is pasture available

• a form of agriculture in which an area of land is cleared of vegetation, cultivated for a few years, and later abandoned for a new area until its nutrients have been naturally restored

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

specialty crops

• any fruit, vegetable, or grain harvested to feed people

• a specialized plant stem that stores excess food for the plant

• a food that makes up a dominant part of a population’s diet

• fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops (including floriculture)

staple crop

• a food that makes up a dominant part of a population’s diet

• a specialized plant stem that stores excess food for the plant

• any fruit, vegetable, or grain harvested to feed people

• a type of farming done primarily by hand or with the use of livestock on small plots of land

tuber

• a food that makes up a dominant part of a population’s diet

• fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops (including floriculture)

• a specialized plant stem that stores excess food for the plant

• any fruit, vegetable, or grain harvested to feed people