Machetes, or other bladed instruments, chop away the undergrowth from small patches of land and then a fire is set to help clear the land and fertilize the soil in this type of agriculture.
What is Swidden farming? (Or slash and burn)
100
During this revoultion, people began shifting from primary activities of hunting and gathering to farming.
What is first agricutlural revolution?
100
In Von Thunen's model, if a crop needs more attention where is its proximity to the city.
What is closer to the city?
100
These are large-scale extensive farms of several thousand acres controlled by one regional business.
What is agri-business?
100
This type of land pattern refers to a system in which land is broken up according to a grid and organized into evenly divided townships.
What is township and range system?
200
Found in humid sub-tropical and humid continental regions, the farmers raise and over feed hogs and cows to then be able to slaughter them in this type of agriculture.
What is livestock fattening?
200
This farming method began during the second agricultural revolution, it refers to the process or planting of different crops in the sema filed each year to avoid depleting nutrients in the soil.
What is crop rotation?
200
This is found in the farthest most ring.
What is grazing land?
200
Today biotechnology has helped to impact the increase production of meat and dairy, these help the cattle to grow bigger and cows to produce more milk.
What is synthetic hormones? (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH)
200
Boundaries are determined and described using the physical features of the land, as well as distance and direction.
What is metes and bounds system?
300
A rigid social and economic segregation of labor and management produces a two-class society of the wealthy and the poor in this type of farming.
What is plantation farming?
300
In this revolution, there is an increase in the mechanization of farming and the improvements made in transportation and the production methods due to industrialization.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
300
Two examples of a labor-extensive crops requring less tending.
What is wheat, barley, rye (grain crops)?
300
Bananas, cane sugar, coffee, tea, rubber, cacao are typical crops found in this type of farm.
What is plantation farming?
300
This type of farming refers to the use of enlogated fields that extend back from rivers and other waterways.
What is the longlot system?
400
These types of farms rely on migrant workers who do not live on the farm. The people who own these farms do not live or work on them.
What is grain farms or suitcase farms?
400
During this revolution, the impact was seen more on the less developed world then the developed countries.
What is the third agricultural revolution?
400
Two assumptions that Von Thunen made about the land.
What is it is in an isolated state, transportation, and differing land characteristics?
400
Intensive mixed farming that provides for all of the food and merial needs of a household.
What is subsistence agriculture?
400
This system is similar to the metes and bounds system.
What is Spanish land grants?
500
In this type of farming tedious hard labor involved. Irrigation is key and requires a complex set of coordinated tasks to deliver water when and where it is needed.
What is Rice Paddy Farming?
500
This was the first crop to be developed during the green revolution.
What is corn?
500
Compared to the outer ring, how much (lower or higher) would land cost closer to the city.
What is higher?
500
This refers to the production and sale of foods and fibers using only natural farming methods, including composting, crop rotation, green manure, and biological pest control.