von Thunen
Based on von Thunen’s mode, which ring would be the most suitable place for a farmer to purchase a large parcel of land necessary for raising livestock?
Four
What is the production of agriculture for family consumption?
Subsistence
Is a ranch considered intensive or extensive land use?
Extensive
The development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas are most associated with which agricultural revolution?
Green Revolution
True or False: In the subsistence-based rural economies of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, female farmers produce much of the food that their families need for survival.
True
Extensive grain fields would most likely be found in which ring of von Thunen’s model of agricultural land use?
Four
What agricultural practice, common in tropical regions, involves burning extensive areas of forested land to create pasture, which decreases biodiversity?
Slash and burn agriculture
Which rural survey method created a rectilinear pattern based upon waterways or roads?
Long-lot
The mechanization of agriculture, resulting in more reliable crop harvests and healthier populations in areas where the mechanization was adopted, is most associated with which agricultural revolution?
Second
Which of the following statements are true regarding women in agriculture in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia?
1. Many women in these regions work on farms and grow food for their families, but not all are paid to do this work.
2. Agriculture is considered a prestigious field in these regions, and they have the highest percentage of women working in agriculture.
3. There is a strong correlation between countries with a large percentage of women in the paid workforce and women working in agriculture.
1
Which of the following agricultural products is placed correctly within von Thunen’s model?
Grain is grown close to the market because it is bulky to transport.
Firewood is harvested far from the market because the best agricultural land is closer to the market.
Tomatoes are grown closest to the market because they spoil quicker than beef or grain.
Beef cattle are raised close to the market because land is cheapest closer to the market.
Tomatoes
Several large cities on the East Coast provide a growing market and shorter distances for products. Farmers in this region are most likely to practice which type of farming?
Market gardening
Which land survey pattern divides the land into a geometric grid?
Township and range
Which of the following world regions has been least impacted by the Green Revolution?
East Asia -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Central America -- Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
An increase in land and water pollution from agricultural runoff is most associated with which agricultural inputs?
Chemicals (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.)
What is the key consideration that is applied to the placement of certain agricultural practices in specific rings of von Thunen’s model?
Transportation cost
Planting two crops in the same field that compliment each other, such as strawberries and watermelons, and an intensive land use practice known as what?
Intercropping
Which type of land survey pattern is found throughout the majority of the United States’ agriculturally productive regions?
Township and range
The Second Agricultural Revolution aligns with what other major turning point in human history?
Industrial Revolution
The use of irrigation in arid environments can cause ___, which degrades soil fertility.
Soil salinization
One limitation of a theoretical von Thunen model when applied to the modern US with New York City as the central market is that it doesn’t account for ___, such as citrus in Florida or olives in California.
Speciality crops
Which extensive agricultural system is most commonly practiced in the dry regions of Africa and Asia?
Nomadic pastoralism
The township and range land survey system in the United States contributed to a ____ rural settlement pattern.
Dispersed
What practice, developed late in the Green Revolution, has increased plants’ drought resistance and resistance to pests?
Genetic modification
Once environmental concern of this agricultural practice, concentrating large numbers of farm animals in small spaces, is runoff from animal waste that has increased the pollution in local water supplies?
Feedlots