Agriculture in the Media (NOT GONNA BE ON MR. GRAHAM'S TEST)
Definitions (Vocab.)
Fill in the Blanks
Numbers/Stats
Old McDonald had a _________. (Crop & Animal Hearths)
100
In Charlotte's Web, Wilbur is raised by Fern. Fern raises Wilbur under a process which humans 'manipulate' livestock and in other cases manipulate crops.
What is Domestication?
100
The art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the purpose of human consumption.
What is Agriculture?
100
Developing countries tend to have _______ farmers.
What are 'more, subsistence' farmers?
100
Around 5 percent of workers in _________ ________ are farmers the rest work in other jobs.
What are developed countries?
100
Were believed to have been ear domestications in Southwest Asia.
*(Name at least 3)
What are barley, wheat, lentil, and olives?
200
It is the district responsible for the agriculture, in the Hunger Games (Movie & Book Series).
What is District 9?
200
Located in Mesopotamia
Thought to be the origin of agriculture
Located in Present Day, Middle East
What is the ‘fertile crescent’?
200
The average farm is relatively large in _________________.
What is Commercial Agriculture?
200
161 hectares (418 acres)
What is the farm size average, in the US?
200
Was domesticated about 12,000 years ago probably earlier in SW Asia
What is a dog?
300
The faction responsible for agriculture. (Divergent Series)
What is Amity?
300
Typically takes place in developing countries and is the production of food where most of the food is consumed by the farmer’s family.
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
300
Farmers that work in developed countries are able to feed more people than farmers in ______ _______ _______
because of the more advanced machinery.
What are less developed countries?
300
Only about 250,000 are in the world.
What are hunters & gatherers?
300
Was supposedly domesticated in Central Asia.
What is a horse?
400
Title of a overheard song and a use of machinery for agriculture.
What is 'Big Green Tractor'?
400
Human Behavior that is mostly responsible for the origin of agriculture.
What are Cultural Factors?
400
The building of _________ and highways have been crucial in the distribution of the crops.
What are railroads?
400
A major environmental factor that happened about 10,000 years ago.
What is the end of the Ice Age?
400
Is the hearth for potato.
What is S. America, Latin America, Peru (specifically)?
500
A movie about a livestock that became a phenomenon all due to a small friend's help.
What is Charlotte's Web?
500
The subsistence farming of herding of domesticated animal. Is typically found in the drylands of Southwest Asia and North Africa, Central Asia, and East Asia.
What is Pastoral Nomadism?
500
Nineteenth and twentieth centuries farm machinery:
_________, combines, corn pickers, and planters.
What is a tractor?
500
In the US, the largest 5% of farms produce *that much*
of our country's food.
*ITS A PERCENT
What is 75%?
or
What is 3/4?
500
The most important crop that came from Latin America at about the same time.