Farming Practices
Settlement Patterns
Agriculture Trends
Survey Methods
Agriculture & Inequality
Starts with an “S”
200
Which farming practice accounts for 128 billion gallons of water use each day in the United States?
Irrigation
200
What is the definition of a settlement pattern?
The distribution of houses, farms, villages, towns, and cities in an area
200
Which method of food production doesn’t use pesticides or unnatural processes and additives?
Organic farming
200
What survey method was likely used to divide the plots of land shown here?
Long Lot
200
What term describes when people have enough food to maintain a healthy lifestyle?
Food security
200
What is another name for slash and burn agriculture?
Shifting cultivation/ swidden agriculture
400
Which method of farming, used primarily in North Africa, East Asia, and South America, is practiced on hillsides?
Terrace farming
400
Which settlement pattern is pictured here?
Linear
400
What trend supports local farmers and reduces pollutants produced in the transportation of food products?
Eat Local Movement
400
Which survey method is based on lines of latitude and longitude, resulting in a grid pattern?
Township and range
400
What term describes communities where people primarily rely on fast food restaurants and convenience stores for their meals?
Food deserts
400
What term describes farming methods that ensure land will remain useful for future generations?
Sustainable
600
Which soil additives that help increase crop production can be natural or synthetic?
Fertilizers
600
Which settlement pattern offers the most privacy and independence, and the lowest risk of the spread of disease?
Dispersed
600
The Red Hot Coffee Co. buys their coffee from small growers in Central America, making sure to compensate farmers appropriately for their work.
What is this an example of?
Fair trade
600
Which survey method results in irregularly shaped tracts of land?
Metes and bounds
600
In which world region would you find the highest rates of food insecurity?
Sub-Saharan Africa
600
Grapes are vulnerable to fruit flies and apples are not. So, scientists created the grapple seed to create a more robust product. What is this an example of?
Seed hybridization
800
Which practice involves planting more than one crop in a field at once to help replenish soil?
Intercropping
800
Which settlement pattern is the easiest to defend?
Clustered
800
Tobacco, cotton, and flowers are examples of what kind of crops?
Luxury/cash crops
800
Which survey method was devised by the French and is used in Quebec and Louisiana?
Long lot
800
What term describes growing food on plots of land that are farmed collectively by people who live in the same neighborhood?
Community gardens
800
When this occurs, erosion can cause topsoil to blow away or be easily washed away by water.
Soil degradation
1000
On the Browns’ farm, they plant spring wheat and winter wheat on the same field. What is this called?
Double cropping
1000
Which settlement pattern would be best for a community that values equality?
Linear (everyone has equal access to the transportation route)
1000
What is it called when community members buy a share of a farm or a subscription to receive a share of a farmer’s crops?
Community-supported agriculture
1000
Which survey method works best for large pieces of uninhabited land?
Township and range
1000
Which UN Sustainable Development Goal aims to address the issue of food insecurity?
Zero Hunger
1000
Harvest issues have the potential to cause disruption to this, preventing customers from obtaining food products.
Supply chain