AP HuG Chapter 11 - Agriculture
According to Von Thunen, which of the following activities would take place in the outermost ring around a market center?
Animal grazing
One major difference between shifting agriculturalists and commercial farmers is that commercial farmers...
Are less likely to allow fields to remain fallow
What world event coincided with the second agricultural revolution?
Industrial Revoluion
Subsistence agriculture dominates in
Less developed countries
The percentage of the labor force in the United States that works directly with agriculture is
Less than 5%
The land survey system that makes use of natural features to form boundaries is called
Metes and bounds system
Which of the following statements is NOT characteristic of modern industrial agriculture?
Prices met by individual needs of farmers
Where is shifting cultivation still practiced?
South America
The Green Revolution has had the least impact on people who live in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Both shifting agriculturalists and commercial farmers practice crop rotation, but subsistence farmers...
are more likely to allow fields to remain fallow
The result of overgrazing in semi-arid climates is
desertification
Commercial agriculture practiced in the tropics is called
plantation agriculture
Farmers that produce food that they need to survive on a daily basis are called
subsistence agriculture
The first agriculturalists were
Also hunter-gatherers
Refrigerated ships and railroad cars most directly benefited the long-distance transportation to global markets of
Beef
Which of the following crops did not emerge in the Eastern Hemisphere?
Corn
According to von Thunen's Model, which agricultural zone is closest to the market?
Dairy Farming
Where is pastoral nomadism the dominant way of life?
Developing countries with dry climates
Which of the following is not a hearth for agriculture?
Europe
Pastoral Nomadism can be characterized as
Extensive Subsistence agriculture
A major benefit to crop rotation would be
Farmers can replenish the soild and improve agricultural productivity
All of the following are major wheat producing states except for
Iowa
One difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture is that in commercial agriculture
More extensive use is made of fertilizers
The people of the Sahara Desert practice
Pastoral Nomadism
Which of the following are forms of subsistence farming?
Pastoral nomadism and shifting cultivation
Which type of diffusion is most closely associated with the Columbian Exchange?
Relocation diffusion
Which crop is associated with intensive agriculture?
Rice
Which of the following can cause the climate to become salty and infertile?
Salinization
Which of the following is an example of intensive agriculture?
Wet Rice Dominant Subsistence Agriculture
Which of the following crops did not emerge in the Americas?
Wheat
The two most important crops grown in the Mediterranean region are
grapes and olives
In which of the following areas has desertification had the strongest negative impact on food production?
northern Africa
The second agricultural revolution coincided with
the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution transformed Western agriculture
through mechanization and the creation of new markets
