Agricultural Origins & Hearths
What was the first agricultural revolution?
The invention of farming and domestication of crops.
This type of agriculture is focused on feeding the farmer and their family.
Subsistence Agriculture
This model explains agricultural land use based on distance from a central market.
Von Thünen Model
The Second Agricultural Revolution introduced this major change to farming.
mechanization
True or False: Humans produce enough food to feed everyone in the world.
True
This process explains how farming spread from its hearths to other regions.
Diffusion
This intensive, commercial farming method is mainly practiced in Southern Europe & Northern Africa Pacific Coast of the US, Chile, South Africa, and Southern Australia. They grow grapes, olives, dates, and figs due to the unique climate.
Mediterranean Agriculture
This rural survey method was mainly practiced in France to ensure equal access to water for their crops.
Long lot system
The Third Agricultural Revolution is commonly known as this.
Green Revolution
This term describes reliable access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.
Food security
Name ONE early agricultural hearth.
Fertile Crescent / Indus River Valley / Huang He River Valley / Mesoamerica / Andes
This type of farming is MOST common in South and East Asia.
Intensive subsistence agriculture / Shifting Cultivation
According to the Von Thünen Model, these products are grown closest to the market.
dairy and market gardening products
What key innovations were a part of the Third Agricultural Revolution?
Cross breeding hybridization, fertilizers, pesticides.
This is the term for an area that has a high amount of people in poverty and they live more than a mile from a grocery store.
Food desert
This crop originated in Mesoamerica and later diffused globally.
Maize (corn)
This agricultural type raises animals mainly for meat, dairy, or wool.
livestock ranching
This factor MOST strongly affects where crops are located in the Von Thunen model.
transportation cost (distance to market)
This man started the Third Agricultural revolution by cross breeding wheat seeds in Mexico.
Norman Bourlag
What is one likely outcome of living in a food desert?
Malnutrition, diabetes, hunger
This was the global process beginning in 1492 whereby crops from the new world and old world moved across the Atlantic ocean and diffused.
The Columbian Exchange
This form of intensive commercial farming grows fresh fruit and vegetables for sale.
Market Gardening/Commercial Gardening/Truck Farming
This rural survey method was mainly practiced in Great Britain by marking boundary lines based on geographical features like rivers, trees, and boulders.
Metes and Bounds
Why was the third agricultural revolution more unsuccessful in Africa than other parts of the world?
Diversity of climate made fertilizer expensive to produce, harsh environment made cross breeding difficult, lack of infrastructure and investment to effectively research, African crops were not included in early cross breeding experiments.
Why did food security in the US (and Oklahoma) improve in 2021 but quickly declined again shortly after?
Expansion of the Child Tax Credit that gave families money to feed their children during COVID.