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