Factors/Types
What is intensive agriculture
This region, home of modern day Iraq, was one of birthplaces of agriculture
What is the Middle East/Mesopotamia?
This revolution brought the use of machines as labor for the first time in farming
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution
These types of countries provide the raw materials in a global commodity chain
What are LDCs/Periphery countries?
This type of agricultural production involves the planting and harvesting of a single crop
What is monocropping?
Large plots of land and reliance on natural sunlight and rainfall is common in this type of agriculture
What is extensive agriculture
This type of diffusion led to the spreading of farming methods across the eastern hemisphere
What is contagious diffusion?
The official name of the 1st Agricultural Revolution
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The name of one country that is a member of the NDC club:
What is China, Brazil, Mexico, India
Most Developed Countries are considered are labeled as this cardinal direction
What is the west?
One of the two types of climates best for the production of fruits and vegetables
What is a tropical climate?
What is a temperate/subtropical climate
The two European countries most connected to the Columbian Exchange, which led the trade of biological goods between Africa, Europe, and the Americas
Who are Spain and Portugal?
These types of farms/companies use the latest technology and huge land plots to create the most efficient and cost effective crop production
What is an agribusiness?
ONE of the two biggest crop producers in the world, other than the United States
What is China or Brazil?
This is the name of the process where land dries up and becomes unsuitable for farming due to a loss of strong topsoil
What is desertification?
Main country in the eastern hemisphere were nomadic herding is popular
What is Mongolia
The two main types of animals diffused from Europe to the Americas via the Columbian Exchange
What are horses and pigs?
These two patterns of agricultural production are increasing in the 21st century
What is the decline of small farmers and the rise of agribusinesses?
and
commodity chains are becoming more global/vertically integrated
One of the two regions responsible for producing most of the world's tropical fruits
What is the Caribbean
The specific country where the 2nd Agricultural Revolution started and the specific country where technology for the Green Revolution started
What is England and the United States
Farmers markets are based on this type of intensive agriculture
What is market gardening?
This crop from the Americas greatly increased the human population in Europe while this crop greatly increased the animal population in Europe
What is potato and corn/maize?
These are the 5 steps of the commodity chain, from beginning to end
What is: Producer, Processor, Distributer, Retailer, and Consumer
These types of countries would be most responsible for breaking the producer part of the commodity chain, while these types of country's would be responsible for breaking the production part of the commodity chain
What are LDC's/Periphery countries and what are NDC's/semi-periphery countries
Starting in the circle closest to city center, the type of agriculture than happens in the Von Thunen model rings (must get in correct order)
Ring 1: closest to city
Ring 4: farthest from city
What is market gardening/dairy, timber, grains, livestock/ranching