5.1
(An Introduction to Agriculture)
(An Introduction to Agriculture)
This form of farming is defined by its traditional characteristics. To make food for the family, grow for survival, and sell any surplus to a market.
What is Subsistence Farming?
Agricultural Hearths thrived in these settlements.
What is a Linear Settlement?
Land that has fresh water, fertile soil, moderate climates, and skilled residents.
What is a Hearth?
The country Norman Borlaug used as his guinea pig for his experiments in seed-hybridization.
What is Mexico?
Monocropping is utilized to primarily grow these three cash crops.
What is Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans?
This form of land manipulation uses distant water resources to maintain all crops.
What is irrigation?
The most cooperative form of settlement.
What are Nucleated Settlements?
These lovable creatures were among the first instances that we experimented with domestication.
What are Wolves and Horses?
The 3 main components introduced and made popular in the Green Revolution.
What are GMOs, pesticides, and fertilizers?
This much percentage of food grown every year is meant to feed animals, both livestock and pets.
What is 30%
This form of farming is defined by its focus on gaining profits, working animals to the bone, and using the land to its maximum every single growing season.
What is Capital-Intensive?
The least cooperative and populated settlement.
What are dispersed settlements?
The most important rivers of the Fertile Crescent/Middle East.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
These four new inventions made transportation and storage of crops easier and more efficient.
What are steamboats, trains, automobiles, and refrigerators?
The process of owning all of the factories that process ingredients to make the production cost of your product as low as possible.
What is Vertical Integration?
This region is known for its diet of olives, bread, oil, cheese, and tomatoes.
What is the Mediterranean Region?
These two forms of measurement take into account visual cues and square feet + acreage, respectively.
What is Metes and Bounds & Township System?
We domesticated these plants first because of their high carbohydrate content that gives quick energy.
What are Grains (Wheat, barley, lentils, and Olives)?
A rather fancy name that means to let the farmland take a rest.
What is Fallow?
This form of ranching focuses primarily on cultivating fish (such as salmon, shrimp, trout, and tuna).
What is Aquaculture?
A person living in Brazil or Australia most likely has this type of land.
What is a Ranch?
This form of settlement was reserved for just one family, and it was commonly seen at the beginning of the exploration era in the 1500s.
What is the French-Long Lot system?
DAILY DOUBLE:
In timeline order, the six agricultural hearths where archeologists found evidence of crop and animal domestication.
What is the Fertile Crescent, Southeast Asia, South Asia/Indus Valley, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Mesoamerica?
These two inventions made during the second agricultural revolution helped ease the workload in breaking the land and harvesting crops, respectively.
What is the steel plow and the McCormick Harvester/Reaper?
A term to describe an economic sector controlled by a handful of companies.
What is an Oligopoly?