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Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods
Green Revolution
Economic and Spatial Organization
Von Thunen Model
Ag Origins and Diffusion
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Which rural survey method uses landmarks and physical features to establish boundary lines?

Metes and Bounds
100

Which century did the Green Revolution take place?

20th Century (1900s)

100

What is subsistence agriculture?

Crops and livestock are grown to feed the farmer, family, and community. 

100

What is at the center of the Von Thunen Model?

Market/Urban Center

100

The geographic origin of a trait, characteristic, innovation or other concept is what?

Hearth

200

Long lots are typically used as a rural survey method in which regions of the world?

Europe and North America

200
The development of higher-yielding, disease resistant, and faster-growing varieties of grain are known as what?

Hybrids or GMOs

200

Commerical production of wheat is an example of what type of agricultural land use?

Extensive

200

Why is it difficult to transport dairy and market gardening?

Perishability

200

Which agricultural hearth is located in South America

Andean Highlands

300

Rural residents who live in close proximity to one another would be in which settlement pattern?

Clustered

300

What is a negative result of the Green Revolution use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides?

Water pollution

300

What is a consequence of agribusiness on family farms?

Family farms are being replaced by giant corporations.
300

Name a limitation of Von Thunen's Model?

Multiple market centers across the world, food preservation, improved transportation infrastructure, government policies about land use.

300

Close contact and proximity between farmers lead to what?

Contagious diffusion

400
A linear settlement pattern is organized along a line associated with what?

Transportation

400

Why didn't the Green Revolution work in Africa as well? (Give 1 reason)

Harsh and diverse conditions, Lack of infrastructure, African crops didn't have GMOs and hybridization

400

Bid-Rent Theory states the value of land is what?

Influenced by its relationship to the market.

400

An assumption of Von Thunen's Model is that all land is flat. This is known as what?

Isotropic Plane.

400

Which trade route connected China with Europe?

Silk Road

500

Who pioneered the Rural Survey Method known as Township and Range?

Thomas Jefferson

500

The Green Revolution mainly impacted which regional areas? (Name 1)

Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

500

What type of farming land use typically takes place closer to the market?

Intensive

500

Transportation costs are proportional to what?

Distance from the market

500

In which year did the Columbian Exchange begin?

1492