Development and Diffusion of Agriculture
Before the invention of Agriculture, most humans were __________ and _________.
What is Hunters and Gatherers?
Where is pastoral nomadism predominant?
What are arid/semiarid regions of North Africa/Central Asia?
The agricultural model that shows the relationship between crops grown and their proximity to the market
What is the Von Thunen Model?
In what ways to human actions lead to desertification
What is excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting?
These are the main features that distinguish commercial agriculture form subsistence agriculture
What is percentage of farmers in the labor force, the use of machinery, and farm size?
There are the 5 primary agricultural hearths. Name three of them.
What is SW Asia, East Asia, Central and South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America?
large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large amounts of mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology
What is commercial agriculture?
Methods of supplying lands with water by artificial means (e.g. pipes, sprinklers, ditches, streams)
What is irrigation?
This is the name given to a flooded field in which rice is grown
What is a paddy (or sawah)?
This is the fourth ring of the von Thunen Model
What is animal grazing?
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?
In _____ subsistence farming, farmers must expend relatively large amounts of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a small parcel of land. In _____ subsistence farming, there is use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity on large parcels of land.
What is intensive/extensive?
Rice is thought to have been domesticated in this agricultural hearth
What is East Asia?
This is where the majority of people in LDCs get their protein from.
What are cereal grains?
This is the agricultural hearth where goats were domesticated
What is SW Asia?
This refers to the business of farming though it is not correlated directly with actual farms.
What is agribusiness?
Where is commercial gardening/truck farming the MOST prevalent?
What is the Southeastern US?
Which agricultural activity is in the 2nd ring of Von Thunen's model?
What is timber/forestry?
A form of commercial agriculture found in tropical developing countries
What is Plantation Farming?
These three crops are converted into drugs. Two of them are especially dangerous and the other one is used by over 140 million people worldwide.
What are coca leafs, opium poppy plants, and cannabis sativa?
These are the processes that made large commercial farming and agribusiness possible.
What is machinery, intensive agriculture, etc.?
In which country would wheat production be the HIGHEST: United States, Egypt, or Vietnam?
What is United States?
This is a living thing that possesses a unique combination of genetic material obtained through the use of biotechnology
What is a GMO?
This is the name given to the most productive farmland....
What is prime agricultural land?
This is who I have winning the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament
Who are the Oregon Ducks?