Agriculture- general facts
This is the topmost layer of the soil. Here we grow our plants and crops. +100
Humus
In this type of land exploitation, the landowner leases the farmland out to others for sharecropping. +200
Indirect exploitation?
These factors define Agriculture in the New Countries. (any 2) +200
Large plots of land, highly-skilled labour
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Every even-numbered team gets 200 points. Every odd-numbered team loses 100 points.
These are three types of traditional farming. +300
Shifting, dryland, irrigated monsoon agriculture
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Every team wins 700 points.
It is a very dangerous activity in which tunnels and shafts need to be dug. +300
Underground mining
Three types of animals usually involved in livestock farming. +300
Cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry...
Forests absorb this gas from the atmosphere, helping fight global warming. +400
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
The main purpose of doing traditional farming. +100
Personal consumption
Three modern farming techniques. +300
Chemical fertilizers, greenhouses, selection of animal and plant species, advanced irrigation, phytosanitary products
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The next team loses all their points :(
This is a key feature of agriculture modernisation- one type of labour being replaced by another. +300
Automation/mechanisation/robotification
It is a very dangerous activity in which tunnels and shafts need to be dug. +200
Underground mining
This type of cultivation exhausts the soil after two or three years of growing crops. +200
Shifting cultivation
Countries from this continent have more than 50% of their population involved in the agricultural industry. +200
Africa
Forestry provides us with these types of food and raw materials. +200 (if you can tell more than 4, you get +100 for each extra answer!)
Fruits, fungi, cork, wood, resin
These technologies can help in increasing crop production at a cheap price (any 3). +300
Crop specialisation, seed and fertiliser selection, pesticides, mechanization...
The Touaregs of the Sahara and the Bedouins of the Arab Peninsula practice this kind of animal rearing. +300
Nomadic rearing
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This team exchanges their points with the team with the most/least points.
The age in which humans started agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. +200
the Neolithic Age
In these countries, less than 10% of the population works in the agricultural industry. +100
Developed countries
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Every team loses 500 points.
3 countries where "Irrigated Monsoon Agriculture" is carried out. +400
China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines
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Blank draw! No points