Settlement Patterns and Surveys
A center of farm operations which includes the barn, farmhouse, shed, livestock pens and family gardens
Farmstead
What is planting another crop on the same plot of land as soon as the first crop has been harvested called?
Double Cropping
What three developments in agriculture led to the increased production of crops?
Fertilizer, Pesticides and Herbicides
What is the traditional farming method in which farmers grow enough food to feed them and their family?
Subsistence Agriculture
An environmental issue caused by the overuse of irrigation and can make soil too salty for crops.
Salinization
Survey system that uses natural features such as trees boulders and streams to determine the property boundaries
Metes and Bounds
What percent of available land on Earth is covered by agricultural land?
About 33.3%.
What type of nutrient pollution describes the flow of rain or irrigation water over land?
Run-off
What is the type of agriculture that developing countries use with a rotation of fields rather than crops?
Shifting Cultivation
What is the process of clearing land by cutting down trees in regions such as the Amazon Rainforest?
Deforestation
What are the three primary rural settlement patterns?
Clustered, dispersed, and linear.
What aspect of the Green Revolution has led to a decrease in world hunger?
High yielding seeds.
How did some women's role on the farm change in rural agricultural economies as a result of increased factory production for certain products in urban cities?
Farm women lost their jobs to men who worked and produced products in the factory.
What is the method of raising animals and crops together on the same land which helps with soil fertility?
Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming
What is the process where fertile land becomes desert due to over farming, drought, or poor land management?
Desertification
What type of physical geographic features are used to determine how the metes and bounds system makes boundaries?
Natural features such as trees, boulders, and streams.
Thailand and India increased their overall wealth as they increased productivity from what agricultural practice that makes use of varying types of crops at the same time?
Multi-Cropping
Name at least two new technologies that increased agricultural productivity.
Gasoline powered tractors, mechanical reaper, steel plow, and the seed drill.
This kind of model explains the relationship between the distance from the market and type of agricultural activity, showing how transportation costs influence land use.
The von Thünen model.
The practice of using these things have contributed to water pollution through harmful chemicals going into rivers and lakes.
Chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
What is the type of agricultural settlement developed in the United States?
Dispersed Settlements
The decrease in subsistence farming in Latin America is a result of what Green Revolution product?
The increased production of cash crops.
Urbanization created major social and economic shift with more factory jobs, leading to the movement of people from where to where?
Rural Areas to Urban Areas like Cities
This kind of commercial agriculture is found mainly in developed countries involving large-scale production of a single crop such as corn, often for export.
Monoculture (or plantation agriculture).
What is it when there is a decrease in the variety of plant species due to the global dominance of genetically uniform, high-yield crops in industrial agriculture?
Loss of biodiversity.