Settlements
This type of climate is best for growing products like olives and grapes.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
A region or area known or believed to have been the origin of certain domesticated crops or animals.
What is an agricultural hearth?
Growing enough food to feed your family and sell whatever surplus is left.
What is subsistence farming?
Intercontinental networks that locate and deliver products and services, using interdependent elements to help exporting countries move their good globally.
What is global supply chains?
The first zone of the Von Thunen theory.
What are market gardens?
This type of agriculture requires a humid climate and many workers to grow cash crops on large estates.
What is plantation agriculture?
The Fertile Crescent region, believed to be the first site for agriculture, contains these two major rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Planting one crop repeatedly, which depletes soil nutrients.
What is monocropping?
The interconnectedness and interdependence in production of food products as goods are grown in one area of the world, packaged in another, and consumed in yet another.
What is global food system?
The second zone of the Von Thunen theory.
What is dairy farming?
Located on cheap land plots, this extensive agriculture requires large amounts of land for grazing, especially in arid regions.
What is ranching?
Cotton, wheat, and cattle were first domesticated in this agricultural hearth.
What is Indus River Valley?
The maximum population that an area of land can sustain, given the environment and resources.
What is carrying capacity?
Agricultural method in which people move each season with herds of domesticated animals, looking for the best grazing locations.
What is pastoral nomadism?
The fourth zone of the Von Thunen theory.
What are field crops and grains?
A specific boundary measured from one point to another in a straight line.
What is a mete?
In the 20th century, new varieties of domesticated cereal grains were produced that yielded greater harvests and were more drought resistant.
What is the Green Revolution?
The farther one moves from the city, the cheaper land prices become.
What is bid-rent theory?
Clearing trees and brush and smoothing the land out can increased the risk of severe flooding.
What is land cover change?
The third zone of the Von Thunen theory.
What is forestry?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 organized western territories of the United States into these 36 square mile plots.
What are townships?
This improvement from the Second Agricultural Revolution promoted a rotation of crops that utilized a farmer's total land, leaving no area fallow.
What is the Four-Field System?
Sequence of production and distribution, connecting farmers to their consumers.
What is complex commodity chains?
The intrusion of desert conditions into land near a desert after the land has been deteriorated by overcultivation, clearing, and/or overgrazing of animals.
What is desertification?
States that industrial plants should be located where costs are cheapest for labor, transportation, and agglomeration.
What is location theory?