Questions .2 Chapter 9 Key Issue

The term used to describe a situation in which a person is able to access healthy and affordable food on a regular basis is

food security.

Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and the Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their

intensive agriculture based on irrigation

Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication?

Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East

An important agricultural hearth is/are:

Southeast Asia, South America, Southwest Asia, East Asia

Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following in modern agriculture?

The development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas

Which of the following best explains the diffusion of plants and animals from their hearths of domestication?

Both domesticated plants and animals spread across the globe through contagious diffusion in early years by farmers and traders, and later by relocation diffusion through European exploration and colonialism.

Corn (maize) was first domesticated in:

Central Mexico

Use Figure 9-6 to answer the question. As demonstrated in this map of worldwide protein sources, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Cereals make up the largest protein source for most developing countries.

Which of the following explains why multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arose across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River valley, and Southeast Asia?

Domestication of plants and animals evolved in each hearth independently of one another as societies in each area learned and applied the process to local plants and animals.

According to Carl Sauer, which of the following is true about plant domestication?

It first occurred in diversified habitats with a variety of species.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Green Agriculture Revolution

Molecular and cellular manipulation of seed production

During the Green Revolution, agricultural practices from more developed countries diffused to less developed countries in Asia and Africa. Which of the following best explains the Green Revolution's highly variable level of success in increasing agricultural yields?

Small-scale farmers in Asia often lacked the resources necessary to acquire the hybrid seeds and the chemical inputs to grow them, leaving large gaps in the success of the Green Revolution outside of urban cores.

According to map above. the largest area of the world in which agriculture makes the largest contribution to the GDP (Gross Domestic Production) is?

Sub-Saharan Africa

The images shown illustrate a change that took place as the Second Agricultural Revolution coincided with the Industrial Revolution. Which of the following compares this geographic relationship between these revolutions?

The mechanization of farm work allowed many young people to migrate and join a growing urban industrial workforce

Which of the following explains the diffusion and successful cultivation of many plants and animals in new regions of the world through the Columbian Exchange?

The plants and animals diffused to a region with climate and geography similar to that of their point of domestication.

Between 1950 and 1990, wheat production in India in average pounds per acre more than tripled, which allowed India to meet its population's need for food. Which of the following best explains this change?

The use of improved plant hybrids and agricultural chemicals

Dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by

an increase in the use of energy and technology

Farming varies around the world because of ________ across space.

cultural and environmental factors

The fact that meat accounts for one-third of all protein intake in developed countries but only one-tenth in developing ones suggests

developed nations can afford more meat per capita.

Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called

subsistence agriculture

In contrast to practitioners of agriculture, hunters and gatherers:

travel frequently.

The most important distinction for dividing the world into agricultural regions is:

whether the product is consumed on or off the farm.