Types of Farming
Wild Card
Von Thunen
Agricultural Revolutions Part I
Agricultural Revolutions Part II
100

This type of intensive farming technique uses a series of step-like structures to produce rice on the side of a mountain.

Terrace farming

100

Midlatitude climates are also known as what climate region

Temperate

100

This ring is found farthest away from the market

Livestock Ranching

100

This cultural hearth is where wheat was domesticated.

Fertile Crescent or Middle East

100

This exchange allowed crops like the tomato or cacao to grow outside of their hearths of domestication.

Columbian Exchange

200

This type of agricultural is named after the sea in which it primarily grows. Some of the crops grown include grapes and olives

Mediterranean agriculture

200

This type of plants have been genetic engineered to increase drought and pest resistance.

GMO crops

200

This ring is found after the forest ring in Von Thunen's model

Grain/cereal crops

200

This cultural hearth was where corn was domesticated

Mesoamerica

200

This agricultural revolution involved the mechanization of agriculture and a large migration to cities

The second agricultural Revolution

300

This type of commercial farming relies on growing a single crop on a plot of land.

monocropping/monoculture

300

This type of survey method includes lots that are very long and often border a river or waterway.

Long lot system

300

Dairy cattle would be found in which ring of Von Thunen's model

Dairy/Market gardening (1st ring)

300

This cultural hearth is where the mango was domesticated

Southeast Asia

300

This revolution in agriculture sought to alleviate starving in places like India by cross breeding crops. 

Green Revolution

400

This extensive farming practice involves burning plots of land to increase soil fertility. The land is cultivated for a few years and then left to fallow.

Shifting cultivation

400

This survey method was developed in the United States

Township and Range

400

This type of farming is found near the market and produces the largest amount of food per area of land.

Intensive agriculture or Market gardening

400

The location in which farming first began is known as this.

Agricultural hearth or hearth of domestication
400

During this agricultural revolution, land was divided up and new survey methods developed.

2nd agricultural revolution

500

This type of technology involves raising fish in high density tanks.

Aquaculture

500

This consequence of agriculture is a result of stripping land of all nutrients, making it virtually impossible to grow crops.

Desertification

500

The forest would be found in which of Von Thunen's rings?

2nd ring (forest ring)

500

This revolution led to increases in population and reliable food supplies but a decrease in human health.

the First agricultural revolution or Neolithic Revolution

500

This second agricultural revolution technology allowed people to remove seeds from raw cotton. 

Cotton gin