Types of Agriculture
A plantation specializes in one crop that is transported for sale on the global market.
What is Plantation Agriculture?
The 2nd Agricultural Revolution coincided with what other revolution?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The large-scale system that includes the production, processing and distribution, financial funding and research of agricultural products and equipment.
What is Agribusiness?
According to Von Thunen's model, what is at the center?
What is the market?
This crop was first domesticated in Central Mexico.
What is Maize?
Crops that are grown primarily for human consumption, farms sell their output to manufacturers of food products, such as breakfast cereals and bread.
What is commercial grain farming?
The first domestication of plants and animals, where previously societies had been nomadic, hunters and gatherers.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution?
Survey method that defines the boundaries of land ownership by a grid system.
What is Township and Range?
The two types of agriculture closest to the market.
What is market gardening and dairy farming?
Moving livestock to higher pasture areas which leads to soil degradation and overgrazing of pasture areas in arid climates has caused which problem?
What is desertification?
Nomads move herds to different pastures and trade meat, milk, and hides.
What is Nomadic Herding/Pastoral Nomadism?
The development of higher-yielding, disease resistant, faster-growing varieties of grains.
What is the Green Revolution?
The value of land is influence by its relationship to the Market.
What is the Bid-Rent Theory?
Timber is not perishable, yet it is in the second ring of Von Thunen's model because _________________ is difficult and expensive.
What is transportation?
Because of the over use of pesticides, this type of method of farming has increased.
What is organic farming?
Livestock ranching would best be described as ______________ farming, while market gardening tends to be more ________________ farming.
What is extensive farming? What is intensive farming?
Rural-to-Urban migration occurred during this agricultural revolution.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
The cultivation of one or two crops. Allows for specialization and maximized efficiency, leads to higher yields.
What is monocropping?
This type of agriculture is found in the outer most ring of Von Thunen's Model.
What is Livestock Ranching?
Olives, dates, and grapes are agricultural products practiced in this type of farming.
What is Mediterranean Agriculture?
Farmers move from one field to another by utilizing slash and burn agriculture.
Considered to be the father of the green revolution.
Who is Norman Borlaug?
The complex network that connects places of production with distribution to consumers.
What are Commodity Chains?
Von Thunen's Model is not always correct. Not all land is perfectly flat, there are natural features, and there may be more than one _____________.
What is a market?
This crop was used to initiate the third agricultural revolution.
What is Wheat?