UNIT 3: AGRARIAN ACTIVITIES
ACIDITY
How much acid something contains.
AGRARIAN SPACES
Location of activities related to the
primary sector.
AGRI-BUSINESS
Business associated which producing,
processing and distributing agricultural products.
CUTTING
Piece of a plant used to grow a new
plant.
DEFORESTATION
Disappearance of forests caused by
overexploitation, conversión to farming use and forest fires.
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
Disappearance of the natural environment
as a result of human occupation.
EXPORTS
Goods sold outside a country’s borders.
EXTENSIVE MECHANISED MONOCULTURE
Large plots, few farmers operating as a
business, specialisation in a single crop and overproduction.
FARMING SYSTEMS
Resources used to produce goods and
provide services.
FEED
Food for animals
FLOTILLA
Small fleet of ships.
FOODER
Dried grass given to animals as food.
FORESTRY
Exploiting forests sustainably to obtain
resources(Wood, rubber, resins, cork).
HARVEST
What is produced and gathered.
HOIST UP
To raise by using machinery.
INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE
System of food and livestock production
characterised by large farms, use of chemical, mechanisation, specialisation,
high production and capital investment.
LIVESTOCK FARMING SYSTEMS
Intensive or extensive, nomadic, seasonal
migratory or sedentary, and confined, unconfined or semi-confined.
MANURE
Animal waste used as fertiliser.
NATURAL RESOURCES
Elements provided by nature that humans
use for economic activities.
NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Resources with very long replenishment
cycles.
OVEREXPLOITATION
Using natural resources faster than they
can regenerate.
PASTURE
Grass and plants that animals can eat
growing on land.
PLANTATION AGRICULTURE
Plantations specialised in one product
grown for export, employing a lot of low-paid local labour.
PLOUGH
To turn over the soil before planting
seeds.
PRIMARY SECTOR
Economic activity directly involving
naural resources
RAISE
To keep and grow from a young age.
RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Resources replenished in a short period
of time.
REPLENISH
To restore or replace
RURAL LANDSCAPES
The combination of abiotic, man-made and
biotic landscapes found in the countryside.
SALINITY
How much salt something contains.
SEEDBED
Area of soil where seeds are germinated.
SILT
Material deposited as sediment in rivers
and other types of moving water.
TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE
Labour-intensive system of food
production characterised by rudimentary techniques, polyculture, small plots
and self-consumption.
YIELD
How much is produced.
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