Von Thünen Model
Inventions
Second Agricultural Revolution
Economics of Agriculture
Green Revolution
100

The Von Thünen Model describes this.

What are the spatial patterns of agricultural location?

100

John Deere invented a better plow made of this material.

What is steel?

100

Before the Second Agricultural Revolution, most farming was done this way.

What is by hand?

100

Large companies that produce the same crop on many different fields is called this.

What is monocropping?

100

Name one of the two major problems with irrigation.

What is soil salinity and depletion of groundwater?

200

Von Thünen based his model on his studies in this country.

What is Germany?

200

The mechanical reaper replaced this tool.

What is the scythe?

200

This event introduced products such as cacao to Europe.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

200

At a certain point, many people moved to cash cropping from this agricultural practice commonly found in less developed areas.

What is Subsistence Agriculture(or farming)?

200

Name one positive and one negative effect of the green revolution.

What are...?


Positive: Increased crop production, Decreased world hunger, More efficient use of land, 33.3% of the land is agricultural land, the Green Revolution allowed for wiser use, Farmers began multi-cropping, Growing 2-3 crops in one year on the same land

Negative: Expense of seed, fertilizer, and mechanization, Loss of plant diversity, Loss of subsistence farming, Loss of genetic variety, Environmental costs, Caused by pesticides, commercial fertilizers, and irrigation, Urban issues continued, Hierarchical diffusion skipped poor farmers, forcing them to move into crowded urban cities, Often didn't have skills for city jobs, so they became poor



300

The circle in the center of the model represents this.

What is the Urban Center/Market?

300

This revolutionary invention led to the invention of many useful items, such as cars, and the improvement of times such as tractors.

What is the internal combustible engine?

300

This revolutionary invention made sowing much easier than before.

What is the seed drill?

300

This goes along with the Von Thünen Model in referring to the price and demand of farmland.

What is the Bid-Rent Theory?

300

This crop was the main hybrid that came out of the green revolution.

What is rice?

400

This is the area surrounding a city.

Was is the hinterland?

400

Give one of the two reasons that the iron plow did not work.

What is the thought that the ground was poisoned by the iron?

What is it broke too easily?

400

This product greatly improved crop yields while also oftentimes lowering the stink level in the fields.

What is synthetic fertilizer?

400

Name the 5 steps of a commodity chain.

What are Producer, Processor, Distributor, Retailer, and Consumer?

400

Name the three main changes of the Green Revolution.

What are new high-yield seeds, synthetic formulas (fertilizer and pesticides), and irrigation/machinery?

750

This crop is cooked a certain way, which makes Father Mulcahey mad.

What is corn?

750

The gonkulator can only be used on this vehicle.

What is a submarine?

750

In the character switch-up after season 3 of M*A*S*H*, this Colonel replaced Henry Blake as the C/O.

Who is Colonel Sherman Potter?

750

Carter proposes a plan to have Stalag 13 serve as a distribution center in Hogan's Heroes, to allow the gang to ship this.

What is ammo?

750

In Hogan's Heroes, Carter wears an article of clothing that was invented by Lieutenant Maurice Dubois. It protects him from this.

What are bullets?

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