Intensive Farming
How do you define the general practice of Intensive Farming?
It uses greater inputs of capital and paid labor, relative to the space being used.
What are some examples of Extensive Farming?
Shifting cultivation, Livestock ranching, nomadic heading, and commercial grain farming.
Long strips of land that start at a river or lake with the intention of providing all land owners with equal access to the resources and transportation.
Long lot method
Which hearth of domestication was known for crops such as barley wheat, lenits, olives, oats and rye, and animals such as sheep, goats, cattle and pigs.
The Fertile Crescent
What type of agriculture is in a tropical climate, and moves from one farm to another, and uses the slash and burn method?
Shifting Cultivation
What is the land and capital of Intensive Farming?
Large amount of land and/or capital.
Where is Extensive Farming located?
Away from major population centers/ rural areas.
A rectangle and grid system, each township is 6 miles by 6 miles, keeps track of land sales and purchased, utilize a uniform survey method.
Township and Range
What place was known for crops such as sugarcane, taro, coconut, mangos, bananas, grapefruit, and tea.
Southeast Asia
What agriculture is in drylands/deserts, and relies on animals for survival, not profit?
Nomadic Herding/ Pastoral Nomadism
What size of land is used for Intensive Farming?
Small plots of land, where land is scarce or inexpensive.
What is Extensive Farming?
Uses fewer inputs of capital and paid labor, relative to the space being used (shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism and ranching).
Clustered settlement pattern
What area was known for rice, soy beans, and walnuts?
East Asia
Commercial Grain Farming
Where does Intensive Farming usually take place?
In areas with a high population density.
What is the land and capital of Extensive Farming?
Fewer inputs of labor and/or capital.
Major characteristic is that settlements are isolated and dispersed, over the land area.
Dispersed Settlement patterns
What area was known for coffee, cowpeas, millet, African rice, sorghum, and yams?
Sub-Saharan Africa
What agriculture is in warm, mid-latitudes, sells fruits and vegetables to consumers, and is mostly sold to large processors?
Market/ Commercial Gardening/ Truck Farming
What are examples of Intensive Farming?
Market Gardening, plantation Agriculture, Mixed Crop and Livestock, and in Mediterranean climates.
Where would you Extensive farm?
Large plots of land-land that is plentiful and costs little.
Settlements are organized along a line, typically associated with transportation systems or physical features like a river or coast.
Linear settlement patterns
What area is known for domesticating crops such as, sweet potatoes, beans, corn , chiles, peppers, cotton, cassaua, Lima beans, potatoes and tomatoes, and animals such as llamas, and alpacas.
Mesoamerica
What agriculture is found in mild, wet winters, hot, dry summers, and coastal climates where orchards are common, and crops are produced for the global market.
Mediterranean