UNH Anthro 411 Exam 2 NoteCards
Foraging - correct answer ✔Food-getting strategy (i.e. obtaining wild plants,
hunting, scavenging, or fishing)
Hunter-Gatherers - correct answer ✔People who collect food from naturally
occurring resources including wild plants, animals, and fish
Marginal Areas - correct answer ✔Deserts, the Artic, and dense tropical
forests
Ngatatjara Settlement Patterns - correct answer ✔They were nomadic and
lived in small, isolated groups in a region with low population density
Food Production - correct answer ✔The form of subsistence technology in
which food-getting is dependent on the cultivation and domestication of plants
and animals
Three Major Types of Food Production - correct answer ✔Horticulture
Intensive Agriculture
Pastoralism
Horticulture - correct answer ✔Plant cultivation carried out with relatively
simple tools and methods; nature is allowed to replace nutrients in the soil, in
the absence of permanently cultivated fields
Extensive (Shifting) Cultivation - correct answer ✔A type of horticulture in
which the land is worked for short periods and then left to regenerate for some
years before being used again
, Slash-and-burn - correct answer ✔A form of shifting cultivation in which the
natural vegetation is cut down and burned off. The cleared ground is used for
a short time and then left to regenerate.
Yanomamo - correct answer ✔Horticultural Society; Extensive Cultivation;
Brazilian-Venezuelan Amazon.
Intensive Agriculture - correct answer ✔Food production characterized by
the permanent cultivation of fields and made possible by the use of the plow,
draft animals or machines, fertilizers, irrigation, water-storage techniques, and
other complex agricultural techniques.
Commercialization - correct answer ✔The increasing dependence on buying
and selling with money usually as the medium of exchange.
Pastoralism - correct answer ✔A form of subsistence technology in which
food-getting is based directly or indirectly on the maintenance of domesticated
animals
The Saami - correct answer ✔Reindeer herders in northwestern Scandinavia
Factors associated with the beginnings of social differentiation among
horticulturalists - correct answer ✔Part-time craft occupations, part-time
political offices, and kinship group hierarchies.
Eminent Domain - correct answer ✔Individual property owners have
obligations to the greater good of society.
Foraging - correct answer ✔Food-getting strategy (i.e. obtaining wild plants,
hunting, scavenging, or fishing)
Hunter-Gatherers - correct answer ✔People who collect food from naturally
occurring resources including wild plants, animals, and fish
Marginal Areas - correct answer ✔Deserts, the Artic, and dense tropical
forests
Ngatatjara Settlement Patterns - correct answer ✔They were nomadic and
lived in small, isolated groups in a region with low population density
Food Production - correct answer ✔The form of subsistence technology in
which food-getting is dependent on the cultivation and domestication of plants
and animals
Three Major Types of Food Production - correct answer ✔Horticulture
Intensive Agriculture
Pastoralism
Horticulture - correct answer ✔Plant cultivation carried out with relatively
simple tools and methods; nature is allowed to replace nutrients in the soil, in
the absence of permanently cultivated fields
Extensive (Shifting) Cultivation - correct answer ✔A type of horticulture in
which the land is worked for short periods and then left to regenerate for some
years before being used again
, Slash-and-burn - correct answer ✔A form of shifting cultivation in which the
natural vegetation is cut down and burned off. The cleared ground is used for
a short time and then left to regenerate.
Yanomamo - correct answer ✔Horticultural Society; Extensive Cultivation;
Brazilian-Venezuelan Amazon.
Intensive Agriculture - correct answer ✔Food production characterized by
the permanent cultivation of fields and made possible by the use of the plow,
draft animals or machines, fertilizers, irrigation, water-storage techniques, and
other complex agricultural techniques.
Commercialization - correct answer ✔The increasing dependence on buying
and selling with money usually as the medium of exchange.
Pastoralism - correct answer ✔A form of subsistence technology in which
food-getting is based directly or indirectly on the maintenance of domesticated
animals
The Saami - correct answer ✔Reindeer herders in northwestern Scandinavia
Factors associated with the beginnings of social differentiation among
horticulturalists - correct answer ✔Part-time craft occupations, part-time
political offices, and kinship group hierarchies.
Eminent Domain - correct answer ✔Individual property owners have
obligations to the greater good of society.
