The name given for the rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
What is green revolution?
100
Name for humans who obtained food by hunting and gathering.
What are nomads?
100
The mode of transportation that is usually most attractive for very long distances.
What are ships?
100
These are the five locations where early crop domestication was centered.
What are Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southwest Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia?
200
The most important development of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
200
The system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
What is ridge tillage?
200
The two factors for why farming varies around the world.
What is cultural and environmental?
200
The mode of transportation used most often for short-distance delivery.
What are trucks?
200
These are the industries impacted by the Industrial Revolution.
What are coal, iron, transportation, chemicals, and food processing?
300
The three world regions where three-fourths of the world's manufacturing is clustered.
What is Europe, East Asia, and North America?
300
A tool that governments use curb overproduction in agriculture.
What is government subsidies?
300
The three reasons why food consumption varies around the world.
What is level of economic development, physical conditions, and cultural preferences?
300
The nickname for the interior of the U.S. where vehicles are fabricated.
What is the Auto Alley?
300
These are the six main types of commercial agriculture found in developed countries.
What are mixed crop and livestock, dairy farming, grain farming, livestock ranching, commercial gardening and fruit farming, Mediterranean agriculture?
400
The industry in which the inputs weigh more than the final products.
What is bulk-reducing industry?
400
A type of commercial farming that works to preserve and enhance environmental quality.
What is sustainable agriculture?
400
The type of agriculture that is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people.
What is intensive subsistence?
400
The countries that are the top global producers of cotton yarn.
What is China, India, Pakistan, or Argentina?
400
The ten carmakers that control the world's final assembly plants.
What are Ford, GM, VW, Italy, Fiat, Renault, Peugeot, Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, Hyundai?
500
The product where the shift of world manufacturing to new industrial regions can be most seen.
What is steel?
500
The four strategies that can increase food supply in developing countries.
What is expand land, increase productivity, improve food source and expand exports?
500
The three principal practices of sustainable agriculture.
What is sensitive land management, limited use of chemicals, and better integration of crops and livestock?
500
The BRIC countries that are expected to dominate global manufacturing during the 21st century.
What is Brazil, Russia, India, and China?
500
A farming model that focuses on the importance of proximity to market in the choice of crops on commercial farms.