Agriculture- 5.3,5.4, and 5.5
What does the Green Revolution have to do with agriculture?
The Green Revolution was characterized in agriculture by the use of high-yield seeds, increased use of chemicals, and mechanized farming.
What is agriculture?
The process by which humans alter the landscape in order to raise crop and livestock for consumption and trade
What kind of farming became present during the Green Revolution?
Comercial farming
What kind of countries had significant increase in crop yields from the Green Revolution?
Developing countries
Why is the Fertile Crescent important?
Early hearths of domestication of plants and animals arose in the Fertile Crescent and several other regions of the world, including the Indus River Valley, Southeast Asia, and Central America.
Before agriculture what was the method for obtaining food?
Hunting and gathering
What are the four major ancient culture hearths?
Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, Nile Valley, North China
How long have humans been deliberately cultivated plants and animals?
It stretches back to before recorded history.
What are a few positives to the Green Revolution?
New food sources continue to be invented, reduced dependency on imports from countries like China and India, and irrigation has increased crop yields, etc.
What are a few negatives to the Green Revolution?
Poorer countries may not be able to afford the machinery, overfishing, fertilizers being too expensive, etc.
What caused the Green Revolution to happen?
Scientists/experts introduced higher-yield seeds and fertilizers around the world
Experiments on genetically modified crops (GMOs) led to what?
Seeds/plants that were tough, fast growing, and produced more food than wild plants
What kind of farming was relevant in the First Agricultural Revolution?
Subsistence farming
From the 1940s-1980s what event occured?
The Green Revolution
Why is the Green Revolution a controversial topic in some ways?
The Green Revolution had positive and negative consequences for both human populations and the environment, therefore making it a blessing and a curse.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution directly connected to?
The Industrial Revolution
What event did modern farming machinery trigger?
The second agricultural revolution
After agriculture "became a thing" what were the effects?
There were more permanent human settlements and more development/civilization
Why are patterns of diffusion (like the Columbian Exchange and agricultural revolutions) so important?
They resulted in the global spread of various plants and animals
When did experts start to predict a Malthusian-style worldwide famine?
When the Earth's population exploded in the 1900s
Why is the Second Agricultural revolution so important?
With new technology and increased food production, it led to better diets, longer life expectancies, and more people available for work in factories.
What were the effects of the Second Agricultural Revolution?
greatly increased food production, population growth, increased health, and urbanization