Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Geographic Concepts
organic agriculture
agriculture
primary economic
activity
secondary economic
activity
tertiary economic activity
quaternary economic
activity
quinary economic
activity
plant domestication
root crops
seed crops
First Agricultural
Revolution
animal domestication
subsistence agriculture
shifting cultivation
slash-and-burn
agriculture
Second Agricultural
Revolution
von Thünen model
Third Agricultural
Revolution
Green Revolution
genetically modifi ed
organisms (GMOs)
rectangular survey
system
township- and
range-system
metes and bounds system
long-lot survey system
primogeniture
commercial
agriculture
monoculture
Köppen climatic
classifi cation
system
climatic regions
plantation agriculture
livestock ranching
Mediterranean
agriculture
cash crops
luxury crops
agribusiness
food desert
Learn More Online
About food production and development
http://www.foodfi rst.org/media/opeds/2000/4-greenrev.html
About the preservation of agricultural lands
http://www.farmland.org/
Watch It Online
Guns, Germs, and Steel
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel
Loss of agricultural land to suburbanization in Chicago
http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#program_descriptions
click on video on demand for program 24
Russia's Farming Revolution
http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#program_descriptions
click on video on demand for program 7
Sustainable agriculture in India
http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#program_descriptions
click on video on demand for program 17
