Agricultural Revolutions
Before agriculture people found food through:
Hunting and Gathering
What is it called when people move to new food sources when old ones run out?
Nomadic Lifestyle
What agricultural practice revolutionized soil conditions?
Crop Rotation
What is the term used to describe the control a government or country has to a water source?
Water Rights
What do we call a person who is forced to leave home because of dire threats to well-being that will most likely never return home?
Refugee
What event began 10,000 thousand years ago when humans first planted and harvested edible plants and domesticated wild animals?
1st Agricultural Revolution
What farming method uses controlled fires to restore nutrients to the land?
Slash and Burn
What are crops that have to be certified by the FDA and comply with certain growing standards?
Organic foods
What water source in central Asia has continued to shrink since the 1960s?
The Aral Sea
What is a country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office?
Democracy
What event began in Western Europe in the 1600s when farming moved beyond subsistence to surplus?
2nd Agricultural Revolution
What farming method uses the breeding and herding of domesticated animals for subsistence?
Pastoral Nomadism
What are crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods?
GMOs
What water source is Georgia and Florida fighting over?
The Chattahoochee River System
What is the belief in one god that has power over everything?
Monotheism
What event began in the 1930s when biotechnology was used to expand agricultural production?
3rd Agricultural Revolution
What farming method uses large plots of land to grow “cash crops”?
Plantation Agriculture
What is it called when you grow only enough food to feed your family?
Subsistence Agriculture
Where was one of the oldest successful agricultural regions on Earth?
The Nile River Valley
What are valleys that filled with seawater after the ice melted?
Fjords
What event began in the US in the 1960s when farmers introduced and diffused hybrid strains of grains by cross pollinating?
The Green Revolution
What farming method is found in tropical/ subtropical areas, where farmers have had to abandon plots of land after the soil became infertile?
Shifting Cultivation
What is it called when you grow food with the purpose of selling it to others?
Commercial Agriculture
What is the biggest threat(s) to a country’s access to clean drinking water?
Population Growth, Droughts, and Desertification
What are a chain of islands called?
Archipelago