Vocab
This type of agriculture uses more land and less laborers
What is extensive agriculture?
This type of agriculture uses less land but more laborers
What is intensive agriculture?
This is the extensive commercial type of agriculture that is located in places that are too dry for mixed crop and livestock (think Great Plains)
What is grain farming?
The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions
What is aquaculture?
What is the main reason that are ranching and livestock so far from the market/city center?
They take up more land; land is less expensive further from the city center.
Utilization of landmarks and physical features to establish boundary lines.
What is metes and bounds?
What is one reason food deserts exist?
less incentive for grocery stores to open in poor neighborhoods; declining investment in low-income areas; lack of public transportation to grocery stores; etc.
Why are wheat/corn crops farther from the central city?
extensive agriculture, lower-value land, few perishable goods, less accessibility to market, where the farmer can maximize profit.
The two important crops in Mediterranean agriculture
What is grapes and olives?
Why is intensive agriculture the most commonly practiced method of agriculture in East and Southeast Asia
Rice is a staple food and it requires a lot of labor to produce
This idea says that even though nature impacts the ways human society develops, we still use technology to combat nature (think terrace farming).
What is environmental possibilisim?
Nomadic pastoralism is practiced in what region?
What is the dry regions of Africa and Asia
What might be a neo (new)-Malthusian perspective on the Green revolution?
There was a jump in agricultural technology, but the population will still grow faster than our ability to produce food in the long run.
Name one impact of soil erosion
Loss of arable land
Clogged & polluted waterways