AP Human Geography Unit 5 Test Missed Questions

The greatest percentage of people in the world participate in which type of agriculture?

Subsistence agriculture

Farming today in more developed countries is in a transition period. What transition is occurring?

The movement toward industrial farming

The dominance of corn production in the United States correlates with what other agricultural practice?

Cattle production

The following map shows corn for grain production in selected US states. Which conclusion can be drawn from the map?

Corn is linked with the livestock fattening region of the United States

Which process has allowed much of Asia's population to be fed?

Double cropping

The Wheat Belt in the United States corresponds with what region?

Great Plains

Three of the largest dairy regions in the United States are in the Northeast (New York and Pennsylvania), the Upper Midwest (Wisconsin and Minnesota), and California. What explains this phenomenon?

Large urban centers are located in each zone

Beans and cotton were first domesticated in which agricultural hearth?

Latin America

Which subsistence crop is a staple crop in the Brazilian Diet?

Manioc

What type of agriculture typically involves crop rotation?

Mixed crop and livestock farming

_________ is/are widespread in semiarid climates throughout the world

Ranching

What region is though to have been the hearth of the domestication of the largest number of animals useful for agriculture?

Southwest Asia

Which of the following statements about pastoral nomads is false?

They raise most animals to butcher and eat

Which crop started the Third Agricultural Revolution?

rice

In the von Thunen model of commercial farming, you would most likely find animal grazing in _____

the outermost ring