Unit 8 Vocab/Pop Quiz

the practice of growing enough crops to provide for one’s family group

• subsistence farming

• commercial agriculture

• settlement patterns

• urbanization

the practice of growing surplus crops to sell for profit

• commercial agriculture

• farming

• urbanization

• settlement patterns

 Spanish term for cowboy

• Vaca

• Vaqueros

going across a continent

• Settlement Patterns

• Cross Country

• Travel

• Transcontinental

a large group of frightened or excited animals run together in a wild and uncontrolled way to escape from something

• Runaways

• Stampede

• Urbanization

a distant area where few people live

• Frontier

• Urban

• Rural

a group of people who have been given the official job of finding information about something or controlling something

• Commission/Commissioner

• Vaqueros

• Settlement patterns

wire that has sharp points and that is often used for fences

• Barbed Wire

• Metal

 the spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth

• Urbanization

• Settlement Patterns

• Living

 the process of increasing human settlement in cities

• Urbanization

• Ruralization