Vocab
Von Thunen
Agricultural Revolutions
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Define Commercial Agriculture

Production of crops where the main goal is to turn a profit?

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What is in the center of the Von Thunen Model?

City/Market

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What shift did the 1st Agricultural Revolution bring?

A shift from hunting and gathering to subsistence farming.

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Name one major hearth of agriculture.

Fertile Crescent, South Asia, Andes Mountain 

200

Define Subsistence Farming

What is farming just to meet survival needs?

200

What ring of the Von Thunen model would livestock be located?

Ring 4

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What other event did the Second Agricultural Revolution coincide with?

The Industrial Revolution

200

Agriculture that uses many inputs to produce as much as possible is considered to be 

Intensive agriculture 

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Define Pastoral Nomadism

Herding animals and moving them seasonally.

300

If a goat is used for milk, where would the farmer decide to locate his goat according to the Von Thunen Model?

Ring 1 near the market

300

Which agricultural revolution is associated with the agricultural hearths?

The First
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Where can you find wet-rice farming?

 Asia

400

Define agriculture

Cultivation of plants or raising animals to produce goods for survival

400

What does the Bid Rent Theory state?

Land closer to the city is more expensive than land that is far away.

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Where did the Second Agricultural Revolution originate and when?

1700s-1900s in Great Britain

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What was the important impact of the first Agricultural Revolution?

People began to settle in one place.

500

Define Shifting Cultivation

Use of a plot of land for a few years, then shift to a new location

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What does ring 3 represent?

Grain production

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Who was the "Father of the Green Revolution?"

Norman Borlaug

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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) were created as part of what agricultural revolution?

The 3rd

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