Agricultural Revolution
Settlement Patterns & Survey Methods
Von Thunen Model
Vocabulary
Agricultural Regions
100
This was the earliest hearth of the First Agricultural Revolution.
Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia)
100
What type of settlement pattern is found below?
Clustered Settlement
100
The Von Thunen Model finds this location at its central point.
Market, CBD, Urban Center, or City Center
100
This is the process of diverting water from its natural course or location to aid in the production of crops
Irrigation
100
This crop, well known for being grown on plantations throughout the Americas and India, was central to the antebellum economy and early industrialization for Britain.
Cotton
200
This reflects developments from which agricultural revolution?
2nd Agricultural Revolution
200
This type of survey method is shown below.
Long Lot System
200
These agricultural practices are in the first ring found outside of the market in the Von Thunen Model AND why it has that location.
Dairy/Horticulture AND perishable foods - quickly spoil
200
Plant and animal domestication occurred during this agricultural revolution.
1st
200
This more intensive commercial farming practice is mainly found in the northeastern part of the U.S. (Vermont & Pennsylvania), Canada, Europe (developed countries)
Dairy Farming
300
Another name for the 3rd Agricultural Revolution is this. It included the use of improved seed hybrids and chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Green Revolution
300
This type of settlement pattern is shown below.
Dispersed Settlement
300
This agricultural practice is in the fourth and final ring in the Von Thunen Model AND why it has that location.
Cattle/Ranching AND cattle need large amounts of land to graze
300
Agriculture that involves greater inputs and capital and paid labor - includes market gardening, plantations
Intensive Farming
300
This commercial farming practice makes use of branding to track livestock - found mainly in the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and China
Livestock Ranching
400
This was the global movement of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
400
This type of settlement pattern is shown below.
Linear Settlement
400
This agricultural practice is in the third and penultimate ring in the Von Thunen Model AND why it has that location.
Grain farming AND light weight, cheap land
400
This is a type of agriculture that centers around the cultivation of perishable fruits and vegetables for profit.
Market gardening
400
This commercial farming practice involves horticulture and truck farming, where farmers bring crops to market in trucks.
Market gardening
500
Deforestation (which causes erosion) and the over use of irrigation systems (which take water from freshwater sources, such as aquifers) can cause this-- the process in which land becomes less fertile and eventually unusable
desertification
500
In the diagram below, most property lines are this type of boundary.
Geometric boundary
500
This agricultural practice in one of the rings of the model is an example of how technological changes have influenced the accuracy of the model, because its primary purpose was fuel for the central city.
Forestry, Logging
500
This agricultural practice is depicted below.
Monoculture, Monocropping or Plantations
500
This commercial farming practice is found in the following places: Chile, Italy, France, California (notice they all have something in common).
Mediterranean (grapes, olives, dates, figs)
600
Developed during the 1st agricultural revolution - this method is used when farmers need to clear land and have soil that lacks sufficient amounts of nutrients needed to grow crops quickly
Slash and Burn (or shifting cultivation)
600
This type of survey system is found often thanks to good ol' Thomas Jefferson and his Louisiana Purchase.
Township & Range
600
These are the two primary costs a farmer is concerned with, according to Von Thunen's Model.
Land cost and Transportation Cost
600
This relationship affects more than just agriculture, but can be seen in the example below.
Example: While the extraction and processing of cocoa is expensive, the profit margin is high. Most of the revenue remains with the foreign European-based corporation, while very little revenue finds its way back to the local cocoa growers.
Neocolonialism
600
This commercial farming crop mainly uses large scale machinery (tractors), is very automated, and dominates in the middle part of the U.S.
Grain Farming (especially corn or wheat production)