Origin of Agriculture
Agricultural Regions
Misc.
Subsistence Agriculture Regions
Commercial Agriculture Regions
100
A people that survive by moving from place to place often following animal migratory patterns
What are nomads?
100
Type of agriculture that involves people growing just enough to support their families.
What is subsistence agriculture?
100
The central area that most clustered New England settlements were built around.
What is a Common?
100
The cutting own and burning of plants in an area in preparation of planting of crops.
What is slash-and-burn?
100
Most common crop for mixed crop and livestock farms.
What is corn?
200
Maximum number of people in a tribe that existed before agriculture.
What is 50?
200
Type of agriculture that involves farmers growing crops specifically to sell them.
What is commercial farming?
200
Average farm size in the united states.
What are 444 acres? (171 hectares)
200
The area cleared by slash-and-burn methods.
What is a swidden?
200
Most common crop grown in grain farming.
What is Wheat?
300
How was agriculture discovered and developed?
What is accident and experimentation?
300
Where pastoral nomadism takes place.
What are the drylands of north Africa and Asia?
300
Average farm size of a less developed country.
What are 1.7 acres? (.7 hectares)
300
A type of farm that specializes in one or two crops.
What is a plantation?
300
Type of farming most commonly associated with "the wild west"
What is ranching?
400
The original reason animals were domesticated.
What are sacrificial and religious purposes?
400
Continent in which most intensive subsistence farming takes place.
What is Asia?
400
The reason that farmers are able to create a surplus of food.
What is machinery?
400
The reason people resorted to pastoral nomadism.
What is poor soil and little rain?
400
Often called "truck farming"
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming?
500
Type of planting where people drop pieces of plants onto the ground to grow plants.
What is vegetative planting?
500
Where shifting cultivation takes place.
What is central america?
500
What allows livestock and crops to arrive at the market in better condition.
What is transportation?
500
The reason pastoral nomads don't usually slaughter animals.
What are large herds indicating power?
500
The reason people have been able to buy more dairy products.
What is rising income?
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