AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
This agricultural revolution led to the domestication of plants and animals
What is the Neolithic Revolution (would also accept 1st Agricultural revolution)
The term for farming done to survive
What is subsistence agriculture?
This is the name for the kind of farming done to make money on a large scale
What is commercial agriculture?
This is an environmental reason why some people choose to be vegan?
What are cow farts? (methane emissions leading to global warming)
Cornucopians would point to the Green Revolution as helping to make progress around what major problem facing the world
What is overpopulation/world hunger?
The Industrial Revolution created innovations around this aspect of farming during the 2nd Agricultural Revolution
What is farming technology (mechanical reaper, plows, seed drills)?
The kind of subsistence farming that is done predominantly in East, Southeast, and South Asia
What is Wet Rice?
This is the main kind of agriculture happening in parts of California, Arizona, and Florida
What is fruit/vegetable farming?
The growth of soybean farming to provide feed for cattle is one of the major causes of this agricultural issue in Brazil
What is deforestation?
This change explains why Von Thunen’s model does not always apply to why farms locate where they do today
What are refrigeration and innovations in transportation?
In addition to improved farming technology, the Green Revolution created higher yields through these materials
What is: fertilizer, pesticides, hybrid seed varieties?
This kind of farming is the main form of commercial agriculture found in LDCs
What is plantation agriculture?
This term refers to the agricultural practice of fattening up animals at young ages so they can be turned into meat very quickly and efficiently
What are CAFOS? (concentrated animal feeding operations)
This is a potential danger of using irrigation systems to farm
What are water shortages?
People growing food in extremely hot places is an example of this term that refers to how humans are not constrained by their environments
What is possibilism?
An environmental effect that the Green Revolution led to
What is: water shortages, chemical pollution (air and water), deforestation, soil erosion?
The biggest factor that determines where plantation farming occurs
What is climate? - tropical/sub-tropical areas (where businesses can make the most money possible)
The term for government-provided financial incentives to grow certain crops
What are subsidies?
In countries with lots of women working in agriculture, their TFR will likely be described in this way
What is High TFR
The 2nd agricultural revolution led to many farmers being replaced by machines, which led to this major change
What is migration to cities and employment in industry?
This is a risk of reduced biodiversity because only one crop is grown
What is: greater risk of crop failure due to pests and diseases, potential extinction, lost cultural traditions, worse nutrition?
A major difference between commercial and subsistence agriculture, besides their purpose
What is manual labor/farming technology, LDCs vs. MDCs
In Von Thunen’s model, this is the reason that grain farming occurs further from the market
What is lower transportation, labor, land costs? (it’s not heavy, not perishable, doesn’t need to be harvested often)
This is a challenge for women in countries where most farmers are women
What is high labor burden, lack of access to education, low pay, lack of farm ownership?
In 2023, scientists made a breakthrough raising pigs whose DNA has been changed to develop organs for transplants, an example of this term
What are GMOs?