Agricultural Revolutions
This revolution marked the first domestication of plants and animals
Neolithic Revolution
The type of farming that produces the most food per unit of land
Intensive Subsistence Farming
This model explains how agricultural land use is arranged around a city
Von Thunen Model
A major benefit of genetically engineered crops
increased resistance to drought and pests
The primary environmental issue affecting the African Sahel
desertification
A key outcome of the Neolithic Revolution that allowed societies to grow more complex
Job Specialization
The agricultural system most common in the Amazon Basin
Shifting Cultivation (Slash n Burn)
In Von Thünen’s Model, this activity is located closest to the city
Market Gardening or Dairy Farming
A region where Green Revolution techniques were more successful
Asia
A risk faced by farmers applying pesticides by hand
Harm to Human Health
This revolution coincided with the Industrial Revolution and caused rural-to-urban migration.
Second Agricultural Revolution
An agricultural practice where herders move livestock to find pasture
Pastoral Nomadism
This land-survey system creates square-shaped plots in the United States
Township and Range
A neo-Malthusian criticism of the Green Revolution
population growth will eventually outpace food production
An environmental risk more common in developed countries due to pesticide use
Environmental Pollution (or Pollution) and risk to farmer's health
A population effect that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution (going from stage 1 to stage 2)
Rapid Population Growth
A commercial farming system commonly found in tropical regions producing one main crop like coffee or bananas
Plantation Agriculture
The land-survey pattern characterized by irregular property boundaries
Metes and Bounds
One reason global food production increased after 1950
development of higher-yielding crops
An agricultural practice that prevents erosion on steep slopes
Terrace Farming
This 20th-century agricultural shift dramatically increased food production through new crop varieties.
The Green Revolution
The type of agriculture practiced in mostly dry climates like sub Saharan Africa.
Pastoral Nomadism
The agricultural revolution that introduced land-surveying technology
Second Agricultural Revolution
A major reason food production did NOT increase due to expanded farmland
most gains came from productivity, not new land
A major environmental criticism of modern industrial agriculture
soil degradation, pollution, or loss of biodiversity