Agricultural Practices
Draw an example of Terrace farming on the board
A hill split with even lines for farming.
GMO's (Genetically Modified Organisms) or9ginated during which Agricultural Revolution.
The 3rd Agricultural Revolution.
What part of the Von Thunen Model is Intensive Agriculture practiced?
The 2nd Ring
What kind of agricultural practice takes place in coastal areas.
Think of the practice that produces olives & grapes
Mediterranean Farming
Name 3 land survey systems
French Long Lot, Township & Range, Metes & Bounds
Explain the importance of climate to agricultural practice. Consider to best climate for agriculture.
Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops practices such as wheat farming in the United States and China.
Technologies invented during which of the following periods explain how farmland was divided and cultivated.
Second Agricultural Revolution when land surveying technology was developed.
What does the Ring between Forrest and Ranching consist of?
Grain/Wheat
The outback of Australia
-Mentions somewhere less developed
Explain how food preference can be a culture trait.
Food is heavily influenced by a persons geographic origin, family traditions, religious practices, and social customs leading to distinct dietary patterns that differentiate one cultural group from another.
Which of the following types of agricultural practices is most likely to produce the largest amount of food per unit of land?
Intensive Subsistence Farming
What were some changes brought about by the "Neolithic Revolution"
Increase in reliable food supplies, Job Specialization, Widening of gender differences, Development of distinctions between settled people and nomads.
Not Stabilization of population growth.
Where on the Von Thunen Model is Extensive Agriculture practiced?
In the 4th and 5th rings.
Which of the following environmental problems is most associated with the African Sahel?
Think of the process by which drylands, like grasslands and shrublands, become increasingly arid and lose their vegetation.
Desertification
What are the steps of a Supply Chain?
Grower/Producer- Manufacturer- Distributor- Market/Stores/- Customers and Consumers.
Where are the worlds earliest centers of plant domestication?
Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East
The mechanization of farm work allowed many young people to migrate and join a growing industrial workforce during which Agricultural Revolution?
The 2nd Agricultural Revolution
Draw and label the Von Thunen Model on the bored
Inner most ring (Market/City Center/ Urban area)
2nd ring- Dairy farming & market gardening
3rd ring- forest
4th ring- Grains
5th ring- Livestock Ranching
In less developed countries, pesticides are typically applied by hand, whereas pesticides are typically applied by tractors or aircraft in more developed countries. What best explains the risks associated with pesticide application?
Farmers health is at risk in less developed countries, whereas environmental pollution is a risk in more developed countries.
What refers to the network of interconnected steps involved in producing, processing, distributing, and selling a commodity, from its raw materials extraction to its final consumption by consumers.
Commodity Chain
Genetic engineering of agricultural products has primarily increased the productivity of modern farming by what?
Cutting the costs of bulk seeds during planting seasons.
What best explains a neo Malthusian Perspective on the Green Revolution?
The Green Revolution represents a jump in agricultural technology, but population will still grow faster than our ability to produce food will over the long run.
Malthusian Theory- The population will grow faster than food can be supplied.
Name the products in order in which they will be produced, starting closest to the market according to Von Thunen's Model.
Dairy Cattle, Forest, Grain, Beef Cattle
What are some consequences of agricultural practices?
Environmental damage, food insecurity, and water scarcity.
Explain the Columbian Exchange.
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the "New World" (the Americas) and the "Old World" ( Europe, Asia, Africa).