Global Interactions Practice Test

Taming wild animals so they can live with and be used by humans is called domestication. Domesticate is the verb that describes the process of adapting and breeding wild species to depend on humans, making them suitable to live with us and to provide labor, food, or companionship. The other terms refer to different ideas: take advantage of means to exploit something for benefit, livestock refers to the animals themselves raised on a farm, and agriculture is the broad practice of farming. So domesticate best captures the idea of shaping wild animals to become part of human society.