Types of Agriculture
This is the term for a crop that makes a lot of money such as cotton, pineapple, coffee, tobacco, and sugar.
What is a cash crop?
This is the definition of an agricultural hearth.
What is the places where humans first began to farm?
For most of human history, our human ancestors did this to obtain their food.
What is hunt and gather?
This is the definition of an aquifer.
What is a vast underground water source?
This is why agriculture is necessary.
What is our human population is too large for hunting-gathering?
What is domestication of animals allows us to control our food supply?
This type of agriculture targets small markets like a "farmers market."
What is market gardening?
This agricultural hearth developed maize as a reliable crop.
What is Mesoamerica?
This is the term for keeping, breeding, and controlling animals for food or work.
What is domestication?
The Ogallala Aquifer provides water to this region.
What is the American Great Plains?
This process of clearing trees and vegetation is a negative effect of agriculture.
What is deforestation?
These two types of agriculture utilize feedlots to fatten up livestock.
What are livestock fattening and dairy farming?
This agricultural hearth is the home for mixed crop/ livestock agriculture.
What is southeast Asia?
What is settling?
What is specialization?
What is civilization?
The Ogallala Aquifer is important to all Americans for this reason.
What is it irrigates farms that provide a large portion of food for all Americans?
Agricultural runoff can cause this problem in our planet's oceans where life cannot exist.
What are "dead zones?"
This type of agriculture can be done in colder, rockier climates.
What is livestock fattening?
This is the geographic feature that is common to most agricultural hearths.
What are rivers?
What is select the best foods for us?
This is why the situation with the Ogallala Aquifer is known as the "Tragedy of the Commons."
What is the aqauifer supplies water to the Great Plains region, but it is being mismanaged by farmers?
The use of pesticides is dangerous to humans for this reason.
What is pesticides end up in our food that we eat?
What is pesticides end up in our drinking water?
What is pesticides end up in our oceans?
This describes the conditions for Paddy Rice Agriculture.
What is excessive rain and very warm?
The Fertile Crescent was one of the first areas where humans farmed this.
What are grains?
Teosinte became maize (corn) because of this process?
What is domestication by selection?
This is one solution to the issue with the Ogallala Aquifer.
What is use more efficient irrigation methods?
What is implement tax incentives for farmers to use less water?
What is grow crops that use less water?
This negative consequence of agriculture happens when we drain wetlands to create farms.
What is we lose our natural filtration system?