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Is the deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food, feed, and fiber.
What is Agriculture
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When and where did plant domestication begin?
More than 14,000 years ago in the Fertile Cresent
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Economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment, such as agriculture, ranching, hunting and gathering, fishing, forestry and mining.
What is Primary economic activities
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Out of the 148 species of large herbivorous, terrestrial animals that live in the wild, how many have been domesticated?
14
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The "dry summer" (C) climates are known as
What is Mediterranean climates
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Non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee and tobacco.
What is Luxury crops
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Dating back 10,000 years ago, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication.
What is First Agricultural Revolution
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Activities that take a primary product and manufacture it, changing it into something else such as toys, ships, processed foods, chemicals and buildings.
What is Secondary economic activities
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Hundreds of millions of farmers are involved in growing only enough food to survive, what is this term called?
What is subsistence agriculture
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What is the name of the model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy and who created it.
Von Thunen Model, by Johann Heinrich von Thunen
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Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods.
What is Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
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Benefitting from the Industrial Revolution, it witnessed improved methods of cultication, harvesting and storage of farm produce.
What is Second Agricultural Revolution
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Part of the service industry, connecting producers to consumers and facilitating commerce and trade.
What is Tertiary economic activities
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According to Jared Diamond, which five domesticated mammals are important throughout the world?
The cow, sheep, goat, pig, and horse
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Developed by Wladimir Koppen, a system for classifying the world's climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation.
What is Koppen's climate classification system
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General term for the businesses that provide the vast array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry.
What is Agribusiness
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The successful development of higher yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which led to increased production growth and food needs.
What is Green Revolution.
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Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing and manipulation of information and capital such as finace, administration, insurance and legal services.
What is Quaternary economic activity
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Name one of the six primary regions of domestication.
The Upper Southeast Asian Mainlands, Lower Southeast Asian Mainland and Malaysia, Eastern India and Western Burma, Southwestern Asia, Ethiopian and East African Highlands, Meso-American Region
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Two of the most significant cash crops today are?
What is cotton and rubber
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Areas of the world with similar climatic characteristics.
What is Climatic regions
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Currently in progress, has as its principal orientation the development of GMOs.
What is Third Agricultural Revolution
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Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill, such as scientific research and high-level management.
What is Quinary economic activity
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What are the five different village layouts?
Linear village, Cluster village, Round village, Walled village, and Grid village.
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List three environmental impacts of commercial agriculture.
Overfishing, deforestation, soil erosion, presence of chemicals in soil and ground water.