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The definition of agriculture is…
What is the practice of planting and harvesting domesticated plants and raising domesticated animals for food and raw materials?
Name one way agriculture has changed over time.
What is either irrigation, mechanization, fertilizers, genetic modification, or sustainability?
What is another name for the Green Revolution?
The third agricultural revolution
As a company grows, it’s able to reduce production costs. This defines…
What is the Economies of scale?
The actions or conditions of when people, organization, or country have an effect on the actions or conditions of another.
What is interdependent?
The difference between intensive and extensive agriculture is…
Intensive has less land but more capital and labor. Extensive has more land and less capital and labor.
What does sustainable agriculture include?
What is farming practices that are environmentally friendly and aim to conserve natural resources?
What is a job of a fertilizer?
What is to enrich the soil?
A Commodity Chain is…
What is all the activities and processes that go into producing a product?
A Core country is…
What is a dominant and industrialized nation that holds essential position in the global economy?
Which survey method requires a geometric grid pattern based on coordinates?
What is Township & Range?
Where did the second agricultural revolution originate?
What is Great Britain?
Produced for sale/profit, larger scale, mechanized, capital-intensive
What is commercial agricultural practices?
The last ring in Von Thünen’s model represents…
What is Ranching and Livestock?
Brazil is…
a. A core country
b. Semi-periphery
c. Periphery
d. Other
What is b) Semi-periphery?
Which survey method is connected to waterways?
What is long lot?
What is a major outcome of the Second Agricultural Revolution?
What is either: Food surplus, improved nutrition & life expectancy, urban migration & industrial workforce growth?
Monoculture is…
What is growing one crop type at a time (switching crops between seasons)?
Von Thünen’s model is outdated because…
What is physical landscape varies, climate varies, multiple markets exist (etc.)?
Desertification is…
What is the degradation of dryland ecosystems in two desert conditions, turning fertile land into arid, unproductive soil?
Where is the survey method metes and bounds found?
What is England and Eastern United States?
What is the definition of enclosure movement?
What is common lands becoming privately owned; encouraging investment, efficiency, and larger-scale commercial farms?
Land prices fall as distance from city/market increases because land near cities is scarce and more valuable. This represents the…model.
What is the Bid Rent Theory Model?
In the center of Von Thünen’s model is…
What is market gardening/urban center?
A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology.
What are GMO’s?