

Power Initial Quality Survey.Ĭ.Noel Castree is Professor of Human Geography at Manchester University and has a wide range of expertise in the subject. The following questions were asked in the J.D.

Power and Associates surveys new automobile owners to learn about the quality of recently purchased vehicles. Almost all plantations were established within the tropics in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holdings or reorganized as cooperatives luxury crops Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco livestock ranching the raising of domesticated animals for the produciton of meat and byproducts (leather, wool) Mediterranean agriculture specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails (grapes, olives, figs, citrus, fruits, dates, et al0 agribusiness General term for the businesses that provide the vast array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry longlot survey system distinct regional approach to land surveying found in the Canadian Maritimes, parts of Quebec, Luisiana, and Texas whereby land is divided into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals primogeniture system where the eldest son in a family, or in exceptional cases, a daughter inherits all of the parent's land commercial agriculture term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor fores, and the latest technoloty monoculture dependence on a single agricultural commodity Koppen climatic classification system Developed by Wladimir Koppen, a system for classifying the world's climates on the basis of temperature and precipitatiion climatic regions Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics plantation agriculture Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Land Office Survey abandoned the technique in favor of the rectangular survey system. Because of the imprecise nature of metes and bounds surveying, the U.S. It is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as streams or trees. metes and bounds system A system of land surveying east of the Appalachian Mountains.


township and range system A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S.
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The system divides land into a series of rectangular parcels. Genetically modified organisms crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods rectangular survey system Also called the Public Land Survey, the system was used by the US Land Office Survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. A process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into rings around a central market city, with profit-earning capability the determining force in how far a crop locates from the market Third Agricultural Revolution Currently in progress, the Third Agricultural Revolution has as its principal orientation the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) Green Revolution the development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world to alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe. First Agricultural Revolution Dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication animal domestication genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control subsistence agriculture self sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology & emphasizes food production for local consumption, not trade shifting cultivation cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegitation has been removed by cutting and burning slash-and-burn agriculture see shifting cultivation cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegitation has been removed by cutting and burning Second Agricultural Revolution dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce von Thunen model A model that explains the location of agricultureal activities in a commercial, profit-making economy.
