Types of Agriculture
The most important domesticated crop in the Americas, still eaten today in foods such as tortillas and tamales.
What is corn (or maize)?
This type of cultivation is used on the sides of mountains, where it is hard for plants to take root.
What is terracing?
This major event led to the construction of more factories and fewer items made in homes.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A city that is over twice the size of the next largest city in the country and serves as a major transportation hub.
What is a primate city?
This state has come to mean "mid" in modern day slang.
What is Ohio?
What is desertification?
This agricultural revolution let to greater crop yields thanks to plant breeding, but has also destroyed the environment in several countries due to overfarming.
What is the Green Revolution?
This system is used by the the United Nations to identify what level of development a country has achieved.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
The main purpose of these features, according to geographers, are to trade goods.
What are cities?
This is the capital city of Thailand.
What is Bangkok?
This type of agriculture is focused on farming only enough for household use, often practiced in countries that have not undergone industrialization.
What is subsistence farming?
This agricultural revolution led to the creation of farming.
What is the first agricultural revolution?
A country that takes over other countries in order to exploit them for their resources, according to Wallerstein's core/periphery theory.
What is a core country?
The process of removing factories and industry from cities, currently occurring in cities such as Detroit.
What is deindustrialization?
The Industrial Revolution began on this continent before spreading elsewhere.
What is Europe?
This type of agriculture involves the use of heavy machinery to farm large quantities of food.
What is commercial agriculture (or agribusiness)?
This agricultural revolution mostly benefitted already wealthy countries by greatly decreasing the number of people who needed to participate in small-scale agriculture.
What is the third agricultural revolution?
These are small loans that are given to countries or individuals with the goal of promoting development projects.
What are microloans?
In Europe, town and cities were often built around this feature.
What is a church?
This video game features landmarks such as Empower Field and Red Rocks.
What is Horizon Zero Dawn.
This mode of living involves travelling around between various settlements with large herds of animals.
What is pastoral nomadism?
This agricultural revolution occurred at the same time as the Industrial Revolution, and introduced new machines to farming.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
His theory of economic development includes a "take-off" stage for countries that are getting ready to move more onto the international stage.
Who is Rostow?
This is the smallest settlement on the city hierarchy model.
What is a hamlet?
When Aurora was founded in the 1880s, its original name was this.
What is Fletcher?