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Unit Five Review:Unit Five Review: Agriculture
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Commercial vs.
Subsistence
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Origins of Agriculture
Agriculture Economics
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Agriculture in LDCs
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?Agriculture in MDCs
Origins of Agriculture – 100
Question:What is the deliberate modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of
plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain?
Answer:Agriculture
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Origins of Agriculture – 200
Question:How did all humans probably obtain the food they needed for survival before the
invention of agriculture?
Answer:Hunting and Gathering
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Origins of Agriculture – 300
Question:Which type of cultivation is practiced by
most farmers today?
Answer:Seed Agriculture
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Origins of Agriculture – 400
Question:What is the green area
on the map known as and why?
Answer:The Fertile Crescent,
The earliest civilizations grew
here because of the fertile soil along its
rivers and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Origins of Agriculture – 500Question:
List two distinctly different reasons why it is believed that vegetative planting originated in
Southeast Asia.
Answer:The region’s diversity of climate and topography
encouraged plants suitable for dividing.
Also, the people obtained food primarily by fishing rather than by hunting and gathering, so they may have been more sedentary and therefore
able to devote more attention to growing plants. Return
Commercial vs. Subsistence – 100
Question:A higher percentage of workers engage in agriculture in
which type of country?
Answer:Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 200
Question:What does this map tell you about the number of farmers in
the darkest red countries and why?
Answer:There are fewer farmers because machines can do more
work reducing the need for laborers.
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 300
Question:Production of food primarily for
consumption by the farmer’s family.
Answer:Subsistence Agriculture
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 400
Question:What percentage of the United States’
laborers are farmers?
Answer:2 percent
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 500
Question:Name four of the five principal features that
distinguish commercial from subsistence agriculture.
Answer:purpose of farming
percentage of farmers in the labor forceuse of machinery
farm sizerelationship of farming to other businessesReturn
Agriculture in LDCs – 100
Question:What does fallow mean?
Answer:When farmers grow crops on a clear field
for only a few years until the soil nutrients are depleted.
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Agriculture in LDCs – 200
Question:The term applied to agriculture where farmers must work a great deal more to
subsist on a small parcel of land, using all available space.
Answer:Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
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Agriculture in LDCs – 300
Question:What is swidden?
Answer:The area of land that farmers clear for
planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris.
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Agriculture in LDCs – 400
Question:Inaccurate name given by Europeans and
North Americans to the flooded field in which wet rice is planted.
Answer:Paddy
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Agriculture in LDCs – 500
Question:The seasonal migration of livestock
between mountains and lowland pasture areas.
Answer:Transhumance
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Agriculture Economics – 100
Question:Found in more developed countries;
production of food primarily for sale off the farm.
Answer:Commercial Agriculture
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Agriculture Economics – 200
Question:A system of big business commercial farming found in the United States and other relatively developed countries.
Answer:Agribusiness
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Agriculture Economics – 300
Question:Process in semiarid regions where human actions are causing land to deteriorate to
a desert-like condition.
Answer:Desertification
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Agriculture Economics – 400Question:
List two major reasons why commercial agriculture is facing overproduction today.
Answer:A dramatic increase in the capacity of the land to produce
food.
The market for most products is already saturated.
Low population growth in more developed countries.
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Agriculture Economics – 500
Question:When addressing Von Thunen’s model, what two major costs must be taken into
account?
Answer:Cost of land and transportation
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Agriculture in MDCs – 100
Question:The ring surrounding a city from which dairy products can be supplied without
spoiling.
Answer:Milkshed
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Agriculture in MDCs – 200
Question:Commercial grazing of livestock over an
extensive area.
Answer:Livestock Ranching
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Agriculture in MDCs – 300
Question:What is a plantation?
Answer:A large farm that specializes in one or two
crops. Plantations are usually owned by people in more developed countries, but
placed in less developed countries.
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Agriculture in MDCs – 400Question:
A form of agriculture that takes place where sea winds provide moisture for the crops, and with moderate winter temperatures.
Also, this form of agriculture takes place in hilly, mountainous regions. The two primary
cash crops in this form of agriculture are olives and grapes.
Answer:Mediterranean Agriculture
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Agriculture in MDCs – 500
Question:Commercial gardening and fruit farming taking its name from its original meaning,
to barter.
Answer:Truck Farming or Market Gardening
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? – 100
Question:The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during
the 1970s and 1980s.
Answer:Green Revolution
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? – 200
Question:A form of agriculture based on herding
domesticated animals and practiced widely in northern Africa.
Answer:Pastoral Nomadism
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? – 300
Question:The growing of fruits, vegetables, and
flowers.
Answer:Horticulture
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? – 400
Question:The first person to observe that rapidly
increasing population will cause overpopulation and not enough resources
for all of the people.
Answer:Thomas Malthus
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? – 500
Question:Explain the Boserup Thesis.
Answer:Population increase necessitates increased
inputs of labor and technology to compensate for reductions in the natural
yields of swidden farming.
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