Survey Methods and Land Patterns
Usually a grid like survey method hold rectangular plots of land
What is TOWNSHIP AND RANGE?
Two Oxen would be used to pull this device, held from behind by a farmer
What is a STEEL PLOW?
Ranching is considered this type of agriculture
Extensive
Von Thunen came up with his model in this century
What are the 1800's? (19th Century also acceptable)
This is the main region for grain farming in the United States
What is the MIDWEST?
The natural landscape creates this type of survey method
It was instrumental in adding efficiencies and decreasing waste when farmers planted their crops
What is a SEED DRILL?
Market Gardening would be considered this type of agriculture
Intensive
Dairy and Market gardening are situated in this ring of the Von Thunen Model
What is the FIRST RING? (closest to the market also acceptable)
The Green Revolution primarily led to this kind of production
What is HIGHER CROP YIELDS?
A survey method that allows land owners to have access to a river, as well as a main road
What is LONG LOT?
It allowed for crops to be protected from insects and other pests
What are PESTICIDES? (Insecticides also acceptable)
This type of intensive agriculture takes place usually on terraces in Southeast Asia
What is PADDY RICE FARMING?
This is the third ring of Von Thunens Model
What is Grain and Mixed Crops?
This type of agriculture is meant to make a profit
What is COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE?
Land that has a rectangular pattern in the plains but becomes shaped as you approach the mountains describes what two survey methods conjoined:
What is MIXTURE OF METES AND BOUNDS / TOWNSHIP AND RANGE?
A semi-automated machine that harvests crops. It was a key development in mechanized agriculture, increasing crop yields and making farming more profitable
What is the MECHANICAL REAPER?
Nomadic Pastoralism is considered this type of agriculture
Extensive
The forest is the second ring of the Von Thunen model because in the 1800's people needed wood for these main two things
What are Heating Homes and Cooking?
In the Chocolate industry, these people are left impoverished working for very little money at the bottom of the commodity chain
Who are the FARMERS?
A US state in which you would prominently find the LONG LOT survey method in the landscape
What is LOUISIANA?
These allowed ships to cut through and reduce the time it took for shipping
An intensive agriculture practice that specializes in a single tropical or subtropical crop for global rather than local markets
What is PLANTATION AGRICULTURE?
This is the main problem in which Von Thunens theory does not fit many places today
What is ACCESS TO GLOBAL MARKETS AND/OR MULTIPLE MODES OF REFRIGERATED TRANSPORTATION? (points for either answer or both)
This type of agriculture involves farming multiple fields, moving from one to the next and reutilizing the land
What is SHIFTING CULTIVATION?