Unit Five Review:Unit Five Review: Agriculture

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Agriculture Economics

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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

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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

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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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Question:The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during

the 1970s and 1980s.

Answer:Green Revolution

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Question:A form of agriculture based on herding

domesticated animals and practiced widely in northern Africa.

Answer:Pastoral Nomadism

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Question:The growing of fruits, vegetables, and

flowers.

Answer:Horticulture

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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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