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Types of Agriculture
Surveying methods and land use
Bid Rent and Von Thunen
Agricultural Revolutions
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What method is the most popular and effective type of shifting cultivation?

Slash and burn

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Intensive agriculture typically uses ______ land than extensive agriculture.

More or less

Less

100

According to bid rent where is the most expensive land?

Close to the market

100

Name 1 agricultural hearth

Fertile Crescent, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica

100
What event did the Second Agricultural Revolution coincide with?
The Industrial Revolution
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Plantation Agriculture is practiced in which climate due to the needs of most cash crops?

What is a tropical climate?

200

The large food production industry, large farms and food processing businesses are known as...

Agribusiness.

200
What are the two types of agriculture closest to the market? Why are they there?
Market Gardening and Dairy Farming. They are the most perishable.
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What major shift happened during the First Agricultural Revolution?

Hunting and Gathering --> Farming. Domestication of Plants

200

What is a commodity?

A good that is a basic product; usually a resource; usually a crop

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Which 2 types of subsidence farming are practiced more in developing countries?

Pastoral Nomadism and Shifting Cultivation

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Which land survey method uses the grid system?

Town and range

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What is the main reason that ranching and livestock are so far from the market/city center?

They take up more land; land is less expensive further from the city center.

300

Which Revolution modified introduced chemical fertilizer and increased yield with crossbreeding

The Green Revolution. 

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How does the global supply chain/commodity chain allow for goods from one country to be consumed by people in another?

1. Crops transported internationally

2. Crops used by global chains (i.e McDonalds, Subway, etc.)

3. Frozen then shipped to stores

4. Processed into other forms then shipped

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Commercial agriculture differs from subsistence agriculture because commercial agriculture...
Uses more fertilizer. Usually sells to food processing companies. Have larger farms. More concerned with profit.
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A clustered housing settlement in early Europe had which type of rural surveying?

Metes and bounds

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Why is von Thunen's Model not always correct?

(Name at least 2)

Not all land is perfectly flat. There may be more than one market. Land can be interrupted by water or other natural forces.

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What major shift happened during the second agricultural revolution?

New technology eg seed drill, fewer workers needed, shift to commercial mechinized agriculture which was more productive 

400

How has technology lead to diffusion of crops to other countries and cultures?

1. Refrigeration and preservation lets goods travel farther

2. Transportation has gotten faster and more efficient

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Which type of agriculture can be practiced in an area with uneven topography and an arid climate?

Livestock/ ranching / Nomadic pastoralism 


500

What two main geographical features does the long-lot survey method rely on?

Roads and waterways

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Per von Thunens theory, why are all animals not kept together? (Why are dairy cows and beef cows not kept in the same location?)

Dairy is much more perishable that meat. (It needs to get to the market sooner.)

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What is one major complaint about the Green Revolution?
Chemical Fertilizer is poisoning groundwater. Kills biodiversity. Harms environment. Increases erosion.
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How did the Columbian Exchange diffuse crops?

Relocation via new immgirants to the US

Contagious - bringing of seeds to the New World / Old World