Types of Farmer
Farmers Only
Survey/Patterns
Economic Forces in Agriculture
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100
A subsistence farmer grows food for whom?
Themselves and their families
100
What is a major factor in farming that produces higher yields of crops?
new technology!
100
This rural survey method often found in French-settled regions of Canada and Louisiana features long, narrow plots of land that stretch back from rivers or roads.
What is the long lot system?
100
This agricultural practice involves growing one crop over a large area and is typical of large-scale commercial farms.
What is monocropping (or monoculture)?
100
GMOs came about during what agricultural revolution?
third (green) revolution
200
What types of crops would colonial powers make subsistence farmers grow once they were colonized?
cash crops
200
Most traded commodity in the world before coffee
oil
200
this land survey system is based on a grid system that creates 1 sq mile sections. It was adopted after the revolutionary war.
Rectangular (township and range) survey system
200
this theory helps explain why the closer farm uses intensive techniques while the farther one uses extensive methods.
What is bid rent theory?
200
Who believed that diffusion of farming occurred because of planting root crops?
Carl Sauer
300
Mediterranean agriculture is mostly based on what?
climate
300
What is the white section that surrounds the central city? Why is it the closets to the city?
dairy farms! Because milk spoils!
300
metes and bounds use what to demarcate irregular parcels of land?
natural features
300
This concept explains how large farms can reduce the cost per unit as they increase production through the use of technology and scale.
What is economies of scale?
300
Mesopotamia was where what agricultural revolution occurred?
the first!
400
What is the "red" outermost layer of the Von Thunen model?
ranching and livestock
400
What two revolutions occurred at the same time during the 19th century?
Industrial Revolution and Second Agricultural Revolution
400
This rural settlement pattern typically develops along transportation routes such as rivers or roads, forming a narrow line of structures.
Linear
400
Walled villages were developed during what period of time?
Middle ages or medieval times
400
What type of agriculture involves burning the land and then farming the land?
Shifting cultivation, milpa agriculture, slash and burn agriculture,
500
What type of farming uses large farming equipment, factory type labor, cutting edge technology?
commercial farming
500
What is produced in the yellow sector of von thunen's model?
grains and field crops
500
Explain why nucleated (clustered) settlements were historically common in Europe during the medieval period.
What is: Because they provided defense, access to communal resources, and reflected feudal landholding systems.
500
This type of farming involves high labor and capital input on a small area of land and is often found near markets due to the high value of land.
What is intensive Agriculture?
500
South America is the number one producer of what type of crop?
coffee