Geography 0.0 / 5 ? GeographyRural environmentsGCSEAQA Created by: Sophie BatcockCreated on: 03-04-14 10:29 Commuting the daily movement of people travelling between home and work and back again 1 of 27 Rural-urban Fringe an area around a town or city where urban and rural land uses mix and compete 2 of 27 Suburbanised village a village within the communting range of a large area 3 of 27 Counter Urbanisation people leaving towns and cities to live in the more rural areas 4 of 27 Marginal land land that is only just god enough to be worth farming 5 of 27 Rural-depopulation people leaving a rural area to live elsewhere 6 of 27 Diversification moving into new activites to try and make a better living 7 of 27 Second Home a home bought to stay in for only weekends and holidays 8 of 27 Living standards people's quality of life, mostly measured economically but also socially, culturally ad environmentally 9 of 27 Common Adricultural Policy (C.A.P) a policy to support and control farming in the EU 10 of 27 Intensive Farming high inputs of capital and/or labour to achieve maximum productivity 11 of 27 Livestock famring rearing animals 12 of 27 Mixed farming farming both plants and animals 13 of 27 Arable farming growing crops 14 of 27 Inputs anything entering the farming system eg. climate, soil, seed, labour 15 of 27 Processes jobs done on the farm to produce outputs 16 of 27 Outputs products leaving the famring system, usually for sale 17 of 27 Agribusiness running an agricultural operation like an industry. Inputs and outputs are both high 18 of 27 Capital intensive farming to achieve maximum production via inputs of money 19 of 27 Organic Farming a farm that does not use chemicals in the production of crops or livestock 20 of 27 Eutrophication pollution of fresh water from agricultural waste or excess fertiliser runn-off 21 of 27 Habitat the home of a community of plants and animals 22 of 27 Gentically modified (GM) involves putting genes from other species (sometimes animals) into a crop to increase yield 23 of 27 Crop rotation changing the use of a field regulary to help maintain the fertility 24 of 27 Fallow land that has been left unseeded to recover its fertility 25 of 27 Deforestation the removal of tress and undergrowth 26 of 27 Irrigation watering of farmland by artificial means 27 of 27
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