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LDCs are home to ___% of the world's farmers.
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97
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Agriculture is big business in _____ and a major component of international trade connections in _______.
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MDC,
LDCs
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Is deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustanance or economic gain.
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Agriculture
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Is any plant cultivated by people:
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Crop
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A 1/4 mill people, or less than .005% of the world's pop. still survive by _________ and _________ rather than agriculture.
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Hunting,
gathering
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Geographers and other scientists agree that agriculture oringinated in ________ hearths around the world.
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Hearths
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The earlist crops domesticated in SW Asia are thought to have been ________ and ________ around 10,000 years ago.
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Barley,
wheat
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Mexico is considered a hearth for ________ and ________, and Peru for ________.
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Beans,
cotton,
potatos
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The most important contribution of the Americas to crop domestication is _________.
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Maize or corn
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________ is thought to have been the hearth for the domestication of the largest number of animals.
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SW Asia
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Domestication of the _______ is thought to date from around 12,000 yrs ago, also in SW Asia.
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Dog
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Inhabitants of _________ may have been the first to intergrate cultivation of crops with domestication of heard animals.
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SW Asia
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_______ generally practice subsistence agriculture.
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LDCs
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The production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's faily.
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Subsistence agriculture
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Found in MDCs, is the productin of fod primarily for sale off the farm:
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Commercial agriculture
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