Models
Types of Agriculture
Vocab
Agricultural Revolutions
Miscellaneous
100

The model that describes the spatial layout of agriculture

What is Von Thunen's model?

100
This system focuses primarily to feed one's one family/household
What is commercial agriculture?
100
The science, art and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock
What is agriculture?
100

The wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement

What is the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?

100

The capital of the United States



What is Washington, D.C.?
200
The layer in Von Thunen's Model where horticulture and dairy farming is done (remember that this produce expires much faster so it has to be close to...)
What is Layer 2: Horticulture & Dairy Farming?
200
This alternative system originated in the early 20th century due to the quick change in farming practices
What is organic agriculture?
200
The larger version of market farming, this is the horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops for shipment to distant markets
What is truck farming?
200

The reliance of sun turned into the reliance of fossil fuels and technology because farmers started using more machinery in many more aspects in farming

What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?

200
The country that gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States
What is France?
300

The primary factor in Von Thünen's model for choosing commercial farm products 

What is Market Location?

300
This system believes primarily in amplification and mechanization
What is intensive agriculture?
300
This resulted in cultural exchanges and the transfer of people between continents.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Centered around the development of Genetically Modified Organisms and increasing connectedness between farming and business 
What is the Third Agricultural Revolution?
300
The capital of Australia
What is Canberra?
400

Are two factors that explain why agricultural land use pattern today differ from those developed by the Von Thünen model in 1826

What is Food Preservation and Improved Transportation?

400
Stores such as Whole Foods have popularized the movement brought on by this system
What is sustainability agriculture?
400

The use of this in farms has grown largely across the nation. 

What are GMOs?
400

This refers to the business of farming though it is not correlated directly with actual farms

What is Agribusiness?

400

The country where Adolf Hitler was born

What is Austria?
500

Von Thünen called his model __________ because for the purpose of analysis, he wanted to establish a self-contained country. 

 The Isolated State

500
This system is receptive to the growth of fruit and grains, such as olives, figs and dates
What is mediterranean agriculture?
500
The system primarily practiced in Quebec, Louisiana, Texas, or areas of French influence
What is the long lot survey system?
500
The diffusion of agricultural technologies and practices to less developed areas (specifically Mexico and India) 
What is The Green Revolution?
500
The Five Great Lakes
What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie?
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