Agricultural Revolutions
This revolution first introduced farming and domestication.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
This model explains how farmers maximize profit based on distance from markets.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
This survey system creates square grid patterns.
What is township and range?
Farming primarily for personal consumption.
What is subsistence agriculture?
These chemicals increase plant growth.
What are fertilizers?
Process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
What is desertification?
This revolution introduced mechanization like the steel plow.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
This type of farming is usually closest to cities in the model.
What is dairy or market gardening?
This system uses natural landmarks and irregular boundaries.
What is metes and bounds?
Large farms producing crops for sale.
What is commercial agriculture?
Required in large amounts especially in arid regions
What is water/irrigation?
Salt buildup in soil caused by irrigation.
What is salinization?
This revolution introduced high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
What is the Green Revolution?
Transportation costs ________ as distance from the market does this.
What is increase?
This system creates long narrow farms along rivers.
What is the long-lot system?
Cutting and burning vegetation to farm.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
One negative environmental effect of the Green Revolution.
What is pollution or soil degradation?
Agriculture in dry areas often requires this.
What is irrigation?
These products must be located closest to the market because they spoil quickly.
What are perishable goods?
Livestock ranching is located here in the model.
What is the outermost ring?
This survey system is common in the Midwest.
What is township and range?
Large estates producing crops for export in tropical climates.
What is plantation agriculture?
Region where the Green Revolution was widely implemented and led to a boom in population.
What is South Asia (India)?
Large confined livestock operations, close to the CBD.
What are feedlots?
This system was commonly used in French colonial settlements.
What is the long-lot system?
This economic concept explains why land closer to cities costs more.
What is Bid rent theory?
This survey system often leads to random settlement patterns.
What is metes and bounds?
Moving livestock across large areas for grazing.
What is pastoral nomadism?
These special seeds increase crop yields.
What are high-yield varieties (HYV)?
Agricultural practice that can cause deforestation in tropical regions.
What is shifting cultivation?
Small farms with high labor input common in Asia.
What is intensive subsistence agriculture?