Development and Diffusion of Agriculture
Major Agricultural Production Regions
Rural Land Use and Settlement Patterns
Issues in Contemporary Commercial Agriculture
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This Revolution is the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement.

First Agr. Revolution aka Neolithic Revolution


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A system for classifying rings of agriculture around a market at the center. 

Von Thunen Land Use Model

100
The agricultural model that shows the relationship between crops grown and their proximity to the market
What is the Von Thunen Model?
100

This is the approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.

What is organic farming?

100

The commercial version of pastoral nomadism, using large amounts of land to allow herds to graze.

Ranching

200
This is the Revolution where 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
large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology
What is commercial agriculture?
200
Methods of supplying lands with water by artificial means (e.g. pipes, sprinklers, ditches, streams)
What is irrigation?
200
This occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.
What is overgrazing?
200

The production system based on large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation that specializes in one or two crops (usually cash crops); important crops include : cotton, sugarcane, coffee, rubber, tobacco

What is a plantation?

300
This Revolution is more about Genetic Modified Organisms and renovation of agricultural practices while benefiting other countries in need of increased food production.
What is the Green Revolution?
300
In _____ subsistence farming, farmers must expend a relatively large amounts of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land In _____ subsistence farming, there is use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
What is intensive/extensive?
300
Main agricultural activity in the northeast US
What is dairying?
300

This is the alteration of DNA/genetic engineering on crops and livestock to increase production levels.

GMOs or Genetically Modified Organisms

300
Rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting soil; it is used in wet rice not dominant areas
What is crop rotation?
400
This refers to the business of farming though it is not correlated directly with actual farms.
What is agribusiness?
400

Areas with land that is too harsh to farm commerically may use what type of agriculture? (At least one example)

Pastoral nomadism, shifting (slash and burn), subsistence intensive, etc. 

400
Most workers on the field were _______, but _______ owned the land.
What is women/men?
400

What are some issues that can arise from aquaculture?

Overfishing, pollution, disease spreads easier in close areas, etc. 

400
This is the decline in soil quality caused by its improper use, usually for agricultural, pastoral, industrial or urban purposes
What is soil degradation?
500

These are the processes that made large commercial farming and agribusiness possible.

What is intensive farming, increased use of machinery?

500

Major changes in _____ and ______ especially refrigerators, have made it easier for agricultural production to reach further locations around the world. 

What is transportation/food storage?

500
The art/science of managing forests tree plantations, and related natural resources; products used for construction and fuel
What is forestry?
500
This requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
What is fair trade?
500

Where would most instensive subsistence wet rice farming occur?

Southeast Asia/East Asia


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