Locations of Agriculture
Name the United States location where Mediterranean agriculture can be found.
What is California.
GMOs, fertilizers and increased crop yields are associated with this revolution.
What is the Green Revolution or the Third Agricultural Revolution?
The system of varying successive crops in a definite order on the same ground, in order to avoid soil depletion and to control weeds, diseases and pests.
Crop Rotation or Shifting Agriculture
The innermost ring of the model.
Market gardening and dairying.
To increase yields, what practice do farmers in Southeast Asia engage in?
What is double cropping?
The trade and shipment of agricultural products between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This happened in the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
An effort to promote higher incomes for producers and for more sustainable farming practices.
What is fair trade movement?
The second ring from the center of the model.
What is Forestry?
Over 90% of this popular American crop is inedible.
What is corn?
In the United States most farmers are engaged in this type of agriculture.
What is commercial agriculture?
Invention of tractors, the seed drill, and selective livestock breeding are all aspects of this revolution.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement.
What are feedlots?
The third ring in the model.
What is grain crops?
This climate is associated with Pastoral Nomadism.
What is arid/semi arid?
In Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and rural Australia, this type of agriculture is most common.
What is subsistence agriculture?
The Green Revolution has had the least influence over this particular world region.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
A process by which humans use engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed.
What are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)?
The fourth and furthest ring in the model.
What is ranching and livestock?
Name 2 things that corn is used for that do not involve human food products
1. Oil industry
2. Animal Feed
3. Plastics
4. Medical research
Cultivating large quantities of cotton, sugar cane, coffee and rubber are associated with this type of farming.
What is plantation farming?
Lack of nutrients, super-pests, soil erosion, and groundwater pollution are all issues and concerns with this revolution.
What is the Green Revolution or the Third Agricultural Revolution?
The seasonal herding of animals from higher elevations in the summer to lower elevations and valleys in the winter.
What is transhumance?
The primary reason why each type of activity is in its place in the model.
What is cost of transportation?
What type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?
Intensive Subsistence