Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods
Where do you typically find linear settlements?
Along a river or coast.
Sheep production in New Zealand is intensive or extensive farming?
Extensive
Genetic engineering help plants become more resistance to what two things?
Pests and Droughts
Von Thünen emphasized which factor in his model of agricultural land use?
Transportation cost
Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication?
Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East
FERTILE CRESENT
What is the goal of long lots?
To provide all landowners with equal access to the resources and transportation.
What is Centralized Business District?
CBD: The commercial and business center of a city, characterized by high land values and dense construction.
Where did the second agricultural revolution start?
Great Britain
What is zone two of the Thunen model?
Forestry
Which environmental problems is most associated with the African Sahel?
Desertification
Which type of settlement usually share resources and have a community?
Clustered
What is bid-rent theory?
explains how land prices and usage patterns in cities change with distance from the Central Business District (CBD), showing that land is most expensive and intensely used at the center and becomes cheaper and more extensive further out
The clearing of tropical rain forest for agriculture frequently results in the farmers doing what to animals?
Raising the animals
Which activity is most likely to be found in the outermost zone of von Thünen's model of agricultural land use?
Extensive grain or stock raising
In North America, what frequently consumed item is most likely to be supplied by a trans-national corporation?
COFFEE
Metes and bounds result in what type of shape of the land?
Irregular
A soil conservation practice that transforms steep or sloping terrain into a series of stepped, level areas to reduce erosion, prevent water runoff, and improve water infiltration for crop is called what?
Field Terracing
What are some negative impacts of the Green Revolution?
Environmental, Further Gender Inequality, Poor Success in Africa
What did Von Thunen believe about about the shape of the land?
That it is isotropic
Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system most practiced where
in the dry regions of Africa and Asia
Township and ranges were pioneered by which US president?
Thomas Jefferson
How much of the worlds topsoil have been lost due to deforestation and soil erosion?
Half
Which world region had the Green Revolution had the least impact on agriculture?
Sub-Saharan Africa
What is speciality farming and why did it limit Von Thunen's model?
Regions of particular climates and soil types like Mediterranean agriculture are missing from the model!
Commercial ranchers in the Pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil raise livestock for what?
Export