Sunday 2 April 2017

GEGORAPHY VOCABULARY PRIMARY SECTOR

Factors of production: Those elements that facilitate the development of agricultural activities.

Sharecropping: a farmer who does not own the land he or she works on but who pays as rent a share of the crop.

Ploughs: a large tool used in farming for cutting, lifting, turning over, and breaking up soil.

Sorghum: a grass grown for food, bearing broad leaves and a tall stem having grain in a dense cluster.

Millet: a cereal grass, extensively cultivated in the East and in southern Europe for its small seed, or grain, used as food for humans and fowls, but in the U.S. grown chiefly for fodder.

Barley: a widely distributed cereal plant, of the grass family, having awned flowers that grow in tightly bunched spikes, with three small additional spikes at each node.

Oats: a cereal grass grown for its grain.

Chickpeas: a widely cultivated plant of the legume family, having pods that contain pealike seeds.

Soybeans: a bushy plant of the legume family, grown chiefly as feed for horses and cattle.

Linen: fabric woven from flax yarns.

Yam: the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines, cultivated for food in warm regions.

Birch: a tree having a smooth, peeling outer bark and close-grained wood.

Beech: a tree having a smooth gray bark and small, triangular nuts.

Maple: any of numerous trees or shrubs grown for ornament, for timber, or for sap.

Mahogany: a tropical American tree giving hard, reddish brown wood.

Hake: a codlike saltwater fish.

Whiting: pure-white chalk powder used esp. in making putty and whitewash.

Cod: a fish found in cool, N Atlantic waters, caught for food

Turbot: a European flatfish, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.

Sea bass: any of various American coastal percoid having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two

Shrimp: a small, long-tailed, ten-footed, edible shellfish found chiefly in salt water

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