Types of Agriculture
Types of Agriculture cont. & Survey/Land Patterns
Origins and diffusion of Agriculture
3 Revolutions
Von Thunen
Vocab
Negative impacts
100
Pastoral Nomadism is typically found in which type of climate?
Arid/Dry
100
Metes and Bounds was originally founded by which country?
UK/Britain
100
True or False: The direction and frequency of hunter-gatherers depend on the movement of game and the seasonal growth of plants
True
100
what's another name for the third agricultural revolution?
Green Revolution
100
Why is dairying the closest ring to the center market?
perishable good
100
what term matches this definition?
growing and harvesting two crops on the same piece of land within a single year to increase crop yields.
Double Cropping
100
What is a GMO
Genetically Modified Organisms - engineered to resist pests, disease, and environmental stress.
200
Identify whether subsistence farming and commercial farming are more commonly associated with MDCs or LDCs.
Subsistence - LDC
Commercial - MDC
200
Draw examples of a clustered, dispersed, and linear land settlement patter
200
What region is the hearth of wheat domestication?
Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia)
200
What major world event causes the second agricultural revolution?
Industrial Revolution
200
What land use theory is the Von Thunen model based on?
Bid-rent theory
200
Identify the term that matches the example:
1. Farmer John owns 2,000 acres in Iowa.
Every spring, he plants only corn across his entire farm. He uses the same crop year after year.
Monocropping
200
What environmental issue is caused by over-irrigation?
Salinization
300
Which of the following are crops and NOT grown in the mediterranean climate?
- Grapes
- Apples
- Avocados
- Figs
- Olives
- Dates
- Apples
300
Farming that requires lots of capital on little amounts of land is called...
Intensive Farming
300
Briefly describe the impact of the Colombian exchange
The exchange of goods and ideas between North America, Africa, and Europe initiated by Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas in 1492
300
How long ago was the first agricultural revolution estimated to be?
10,000 - 12,000 years ago
300
What cost determines placement in the Van Thunen model?
Transportation
300
What is the global system that links farms to consumers?
Commodity Chain
300
Describe desertification
Overgrazing and drought cause erosion
400
What type of agriculture is primarily found in LDCs and shows the history of colonization?
Plantation
400
Identify which type of land pattern is which
1.
2.
3.
1. Metes and Bounds
2. Township and Range
3. Long Lots
400
Cows, sheep, and pigs all originated from which region of the world?
Southwest Asia
400
what revolution does this describe?
Crops are grown with synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.
Green Revolution
400
what were Von Thunen's 3 assumptions to his model
1. Isotropic plane
2. No barriers to transportation
3. Oxcarts to transport goods
400
What practice reduces erosion and maintains the fertility of fields by alternating crops?
Crop Rotation
400
Explain one positive and one negative to using fertilizers and pesticides.
pros:
- Increase crop yields
- Protect crops from pests and disease
Cons:
- Water pollution (runoff, eutrophication)
- Harmful to non-target species
- Long-term soil and water damage
500
1. Market gardening, Plantation, Mixed crop & livestock, Mediterranean, and Dairy farming are...intensive or extensive
2. Shifting cultivation, Nomadic herding, Livestock ranching, and commercial grain farming are...intensive or extensive
1. Intensive
2. Extensive
500
The creation of which type of farming allowed people to permanently settle in one place?
Subsistence
500
Identify Each of the different agricultural hearths.
1. Central America
2. Andean Highlands
3. West Africa
4. East Africa
5. Fertile Crescent
6. Indus River Valley
7. North Central China
8. Southeast Asia
500
Due to the Green Revolution, which crop is grown in the greatest quantity around the world?
Cereal Grain (I'll take grain)
500
Identify the type of farm/product fits in each ring.
1. Dairying
2. Forests/lumber
3. Grains
4. Ranching and Livestock
500
What term describes large-scale, corporate farming?
Agribusiness
500
With a growing population, food is not guaranteed for everyone causing a food desert. Please explain what a food desert is.
Areas with limited access to affordable, nutritious food.