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Agriculture [Chapter 10]
Note: The following concepts transcend all units in AP Human Geography; they are central to all geographic thinking and analysis and
could even be considered central to any definition of geography. Please complete this vocabulary chart by defining the term in your own
words and providing an example. You will be expected to know all of these terms throughout the year.
Basic Concepts
Term and Source
1. Agribusiness
2. Agriculture
3. Cereal Grain
4. Chaff
5. Combine
6. Commercial Agriculture
7. Crop
8. Crop Rotation
9. Desertification
Definition
Example/Picture
10. Double cropping
11. Grain
12. Green Revolution
13. Horticulture
14. Hull
15. Intensive Subsistence
Agriculture
16. Milkshed
17. Paddy
18. Pastoral Nomadism
19. Pasture
20. Plantation
21. Prime Agricultural Land
22. Ranching
23. Reaper
24. Ridge Tillage
25. Sawah
26. Shifting cultivation
27. Slash-and-burn agriculture
28. Spring wheat
29. Subsistence Agriculture
30. Sustainable agriculture
31. Swidden
32. Thresh
33. Transhumance
34. Truck Farming
35. Wet Rice
36. Winnow
37. Winter Wheat