Intensive Agriculture: Irrigation and Crop Yields
Agr.rgadío refers to intensive irrigation, a crucial practice in agriculture that provides extra water to crops. This process, whether in open fields or greenhouses, enables 2-3 annual harvests.
Intensive agriculture focuses on maximizing production in limited spaces. It utilizes fertilizers, selected seeds, and extensive labor to achieve high yields.
Key Concepts
- Anticyclone: High-pressure zones with clockwise winds, bringing stable weather.
- Metropolitan Area: Urban sprawl surrounding a major city, encompassing several municipalities with significant economic and social relations.
- Annual Temperature Amplitude: The difference between the average temperatures of the warmest and coldest months.
- Archipelago: A group of closely situated islands, such as the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands in Spain.
- Aridity: The relationship between heat and humidity, measured by indices like Gauss and Meyer.
- Evergreen Forests: Composed of trees with no straight trunk, thick bark, and extensive leaf layers that mitigate sunlight and evaporation.
- Deciduous Forests: Composed of tall trees with smooth, straight trunks and large leaves that fall in autumn.
- Barbecho: Traditional practice of leaving land to rest, breaking the surface crust to collect rainwater and destroy weeds.
- Barlovento: The area from which the winds blow.
- Borrasca: Low-pressure area with counterclockwise winds, causing unstable and rainy weather.
- Balance of Payments: Records of a country’s economic transactions with the rest of the world.
- Bay: A small inlet formed in a larger body of water.
- Cordillera: A group of mountains aligned longitudinally.
- Continentality: Climatic features of areas without sea influence, resulting in extreme temperatures.
- Census: Individualized count of the population at a given time, conducted every ten years.
- River Flow: Amount of water flowing per second at a given point in a river.
- Urban Center: Urban area with a certain population density and industrialization, dominated by the tertiary sector.
- Natural Population Growth: Difference between birth rate and mortality rate.
- Trade: Exchange of goods and services between countries.
- River Basin: Territory whose waters discharge into a main river and its tributaries.
- Thermal Power Plant: Facility producing electricity from oil or coal.
- Population Growth: Difference between births and deaths in a place for a year.
- Industrial Crops: Crops requiring industrial processing before consumption.
- Sedimentary Basins: Sunken areas filled with sediments like limestone, sandstone, or marl.
- Migration: Population movements in space, including emigration and immigration.
- Old Quarter: Urbanized part of a city from its origin to industrialization.
- Population Density: Population associated with its surface area in square kilometers.
- Dehesa: Wooded meadow in Spain used for livestock and other forest products.
- River Delta: Coastal outgoing formed by river sediment deposition.
- Urban Site: Concrete area on which a city sits.
- Rural Exodus: Permanent or long-lasting migration from rural to urban areas.
- Urban Expansion: Urban land devoted to new buildings beyond pre-industrial walls.
- Low Water Period: Period when river flow reaches its minimum.
- Renewable Energy: Inexhaustible energy sources like water or sun.
- Population Aging: Gradual increase in the proportion of adults and elderly in the total population.
- Map Scale: Relationship between map length and reality.
- Equinox: Time of year when days and nights are equal.
- Fault: Breach in the separation of crustal blocks.
- Energy Source: Resources providing useful energy.
- Polar Front: Surface separating two air masses of different characteristics.
- Urban Functions: Basic functions of a city, including trade, management/services, and intensive industrial functions.
- Intensive Livestock Farming: Highly specialized farms with high capital investment and confined livestock.
- Extensive Livestock Farming: Practiced in areas with abundant pasture land, requiring little labor but significant capital.
- Globalization: Progressive development of financial and economic interconnection between enterprises of different countries.