Farming to provide food and other resources for the farmer's own family
Subsistence farming
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Steps cut into hillsides to create areas of flat land
Terraces
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Artificial watering of the land
Irrigation
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The use of flowing water to turn turbines to generate electricity
Hydroelectric power
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Capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage
Arable
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Something of use, advantage or value
Commoditiy
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Pressed into less space; condensed
Compressed
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A striking exhibition of unlikliness
Contrast
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A weight balancing another weight; an equal weight, power, or influence acting in opposition; counterpoise
Counterbalance
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A guiding or governing principle, requirement
Dictated
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A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment
Ecosystem
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An inclined surface; slope; slant
Incline
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Act of following in
Influx
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Usually, measures, actions or procedures intended as a means to an end
Measure
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A natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit, and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000ft
Mountain
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Celebrated; famous
Renowned
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Representing or depicting an object in a recognizable manner
Representational
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Dangerous; hazardous
Treacherous
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Steps cut into hillsides to create areas of flat land
Back
Terraces
Card 3
Front
Artificial watering of the land
Back
Card 4
Front
The use of flowing water to turn turbines to generate electricity
Back
Card 5
Front
Capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage
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