A field cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
100
This revolution began in 2000 B.C.
What is the first agricultural revolution?
100
A type of agriculture that requires extensive labor and is mainly used to provide food for only the family of the farmer.
What is intensive subsistence agriculture?
100
The ring with the most grazing activity
What is ring 5?
100
This can be caused from the overuse of wood for fuel.
What is deforestation?
200
Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
What is transhumace?
200
It's main focus was to reduce starvation in less developed countries.
What is the green revolution?
200
The cultivation of aquatic organisms for food.
What is aquaculture?
200
The forest is located here.
What is ring 3?
200
This is when land becomes increasingly arid and unproductive.
What is desertification?
300
Form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
What is pastoral nomadism?
300
This is the revolution that most less developed countries are experiencing.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
300
This type of agriculture uses animals and is found in the 5th ring of Von Thunen's model.
What is livestock ranching?
300
Extensive farming occurs in this ring.
What is ring 4?
300
A type of pollution that can work its way up to the top of the food chain and harm living organisms.
What are pesticides?
400
A flooded field for growing rice.
What is a sawah?
400
This revolution was the development of specialized hybrids, artificial chemical fertilizers, early chemical pesticides, and mechanization in the form of trucks, tractors, and pumps.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
400
This type of agriculture contains these 2 distinctive features... (1) you must clear all land first, (2) you can only grow for a few years
What is shifting cultivation?
400
This is the most important variable to consider in agricultural location decisions.
What is transportation cost?
400
The loss of topsoil in areas such as steep slopes, fragile soils, and where too much rain has fallen.
What is erosion?
500
The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories.
What is dietary energy consumption?
500
This revolution corresponds with exponential growth in the world.
What is the third agricultural revolution?
500
This type of agriculture is in a large area and only grows one or 2 crops. It can be found in South Asia and Latin America and can cause deforestation to occur.
What is plantation farming?
500
List 2 assumptions that were made with the making of Von Thunen's Model.
What are...
(1) The city is located centrally within a state
(2) The isolated state is surrounded by wilderness
(3) The land is completely flat with no rivers, lakes, or mountains
(4) Soil quality is consistent throughout the state
(5) There are no roads, farmers transport their own goods
(6) Farmers' goals are to maximize profits.
500
A process where land is overly irrigated and may leave salt residue behind.