physical geography and agriculture
What do flat plains and expanses provide for farmers?
space to grow crops.
Who was the father of the green revolution?
Dr. Norman Borlaug.
What does the efficient exchange of food around the world depend on?
What is strong infrastructure and support of trade policies.
What is an issue that women face in the agriculture field?
Gender specific obstacles.
Buildings and human activities that are organized close to a body of water or along a transportation route.
What is a linear settlement?
What are some key factors to growing crops?
Water, landscape, animals, soil, geography of the area.
When did the third agricultural revolution start?
Between the 50’s and 60’s
what is fair trade?The act in which the farmer and the consumer both receive the same value.
what is fair trade?
What percent of the agriculture workforce do women make up?
40 percent.
Patterns in which farmers homes spread throughout the countryside.
What are dispersed settlements
A process using a system of pipes or tubes that automatically water plants and transport water.
What is irrigation?
A name was made for the period of time where major advances in plant biology were being made, it was called the _____ revolution
What is the green revolution?
What is the series of steps required to to get a product or service to customers called?
What are the unequal opportunities, treatment, or rights of a person based on gender, called?
What is gender inequality?
Areas six miles long and six miles wide that are organized by the government.
What are townships?
What shapes agriculture activity?
landforms and geography.
What was the biggest impact of the green revolution?
More global food production.
An effort to promote higher incomes for producers and more sustainable farming practices.
What was the fair trade movement?
What is the crop gap?
When farms are less productive due to gender based obstacles.
What are metes and bounds?
They are terms used for identifying distances. Metes are used for short distances and bounds are used for long distances.
What are long term weather patterns in a region?
Climate.
Which region had the highest increase in grain production by 2011?
East Asia.
What makes teas, bananas, and pineapple special in a way?
They are all luxury crops.
In areas that farming is still common, what percent of farmers are women?
70 percent.
Why does the UK have irregularly shaped land plots?
Because of the metes and bounds system.