GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!
   
    UNIT SEVEN

• Plot: An area of land where crops are grown
• Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock
• Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons
• Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed
• Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater
• Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields
• Polycultures: mixed farming 
• Monocultures: single-crop farming
• Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families
• Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products
• Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings
• Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity
• Fishing ground: An area of water that is used for fishing