Types of Agriculture
Models and Patterns
Environmental Impacts
Agriculture and the Global Economy
Agriculture, Labor, and Society
100
This type of agriculture is primarily practiced to feed the farmer's family rather than for sale
What is subsistence agriculture?
100
This model explains how agricultural activities are arranged around a central market based on land value and transport costs.
What is the von Thünen model?
100
This agricultural technique helps increase food production in dry climates but can strain water supplies.
What is irrigation?
100
This concept helps geographers understand how agricultural goods move through international supply chains.
What is the global agricultural system or the commodity chain or agribusiness?
100
In less developed countries, this group makes up a large percentage of the agricultural labor force.
Who are women?
200
This farming system is common in tropical regions and involves clearing land by burning vegetation
What is slash-and-burn agriculture (shifting cultivation)?
200
According to von Thünen, perishable and intensive farming activities are located in this area relative to the market. (closer or farther)
What is closer to the market center?
200
Name one environmental impact we learned about Palm Oil plantations from our visit to A Little Wild farm
What is depleted soil? What is reliance on fertilizers? ...
200
A graph showing export-oriented crop production supports the existence of this system and type of agriculture.
What is commercial agriculture?
200
Name at least people we met on our field trip to A Little Wild farm.
Who are Aya, Mubin, and Will?
300
This form of agriculture focuses on producing crops or livestock for sale in regional or global markets.
What is commercial agriculture?
300
This type of agriculture is found farther from the market because products are less perishable.
What is extensive farming (such as grain or livestock)?
300
This farming practice contributes to air pollution and long-term land-cover change in tropical regions.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
300
This agricultural system encourages consumers in wealthier countries to support producers in less developed countries with better prices and work conditions.
What is fair trade?
300
The Second Agricultural Revolution increased yields mainly through this change.
What is mechanization (or increased use of machinery)?
400
Raising livestock over large areas of land with relatively low labor input is known as this type of farming.
What is extensive agriculture (or ranching)?
400
This factor most strongly explains why different agricultural activities are located at varying distances from markets.
What are transportation costs (or land value)?
400
!Daily Double! Much of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is being cut down for this type of agriculture.
What is livestock ranching
400
This historical process explains how crops like maize and potatoes spread from the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
If this group of people has access to land, bank accounts, and machinery, the local community and country overall will improve their development.
Who are women?
500
!DAILY DOUBLE! This agricultural practice involves growing a single crop over a large area, increasing efficiency but also risk.
What is monocropping?
500
Label the 5 rings of von Thünen's model
500
The process by which fertile land becomes desert-like due to overuse and poor farming practices.
What is desertification?
500
This agricultural hearth is the origin of crops such as wheat and barley that later spread across Europe and Asia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
This 20th-century agricultural shift increased global food production but also led to environmental degradation and social inequality, especially in less developed countries.
What is the Green Revolution?