Agricultural Revolutions
The transition from hunting and gathering to growing food.
What is The First Agricultural Revolution?
Uses natural features like rivers and trees to demarcate irregular parcels of land.
What is mete's and bounds?
This type of agriculture grows cash crops on large estates.
What is plantation agriculture?
This theorist would never had imagined that the world would be able to sustain a population of 8 billion and counting. He believed that we would run out of resources well before then.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
These basin of these two rivers was the location of Mesopotamia, one of the first sites of agriculture.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
Throughout human history, this type of agricultural was the norm.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This system divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals.
What are long lots?
The cultivation of crops that are turned into illegal drugs.
What is drug agriculture?
This country is the second largest agricultural producer in the world, after China.
What is India?
The valley of this river, which forms the current border between India and Pakistan, was a hearth of agriculture.
Humans moving beyond subsistence farming to growing enough to have a surplus and feed thousands of people was known as:
This circular model is often described as the first effort to analyze the spatial character of economic activity?
What is the von Thunen Model?
This type of ranching uses less land and is a cheaper operation to run than it's free-range counterpart.
What are feed lots?
"Plant factories", which rely on growing produce hydroponically, without soil-and utilize less land than regular farms.
What are vertical farms?
This agricultural hearth known as _________ was the home of the Aztec and Mayan Civilizations.
What is Mesoamerica?
The movement of goods, people and diseases from Europe to the New World.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
This type of village grows along levees or dykes in low lying areas causing them to be spread out along with the structures.
What is a linear village?
This theory holds that the price and demand for land will go up the closer it is to the central city.
What is Bid-Rent theory?
The production of crops without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers.
What is organic farming?
This river was the source of the Egyptian civilization and the first agricultural hearth in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
The Third Agricultural Revolution is commonly referred to as this.
What is the Green Revolution?
The prevailing survey system used throughout much of the United States, the one that appears as checkerboards across agricultural fields, and is the federal rectangular survey system.
What is the township and range system?
The system that connects farms to distributors to stores to the customers is known as...
What is a supply chain?
We (humans) produce enough food to feed the world, but the problem isn't production, it is ________.
This river was the site of the eastern agricultural hearth located in current day China?
What is The Yellow River (Huang He)?