APHG unit 9
Which of the following best explains why farmers would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the same field?
Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.
Which of the following best explains the importance of climate to agricultural practices?
Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China.
Which of the following environmental issues is of most immediate concern to policy-makers in New England?
Overharvesting fish stocks by commercial fishmen
Which of the following best explains the farming practice related to plantation agriculture?
Plantation farming is considered to be an intensive farming practice because it requires large inputs of labor and capital to produce the crop.
The images show devices developed during the Second Agricultural Revolution. Which of the following best describes the impacts of the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Technological innovations, such as the devices shown in the images, and increased agricultural productivity led to better diets, longer life expectancies, and more people available for work in factories.
Which of the following best explains a negative economic consequence of the Green Revolution in less developed countries as compared to more developed countries?
Because of the increased capital investment required to produce new crop varieties using technology that was pioneered in more developed countries, there was an increase in wealth disparity in many farming communities in less developed countries
Which of the following best explains the economic advantage of the type of farm-produced goods shown in the images?
Compared to plain milk or fresh fruit, these value-added agricultural goods significantly increase the price of the farm products sold and increase earnings for farmers.
Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?
Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city in the midwestern United States
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.
Which of the following explains an impact of globalized agricultural commodity chains on consumers as compared to producers?
Drought and depletion of groundwater sources in developing countries cause a rise in global grain prices and associated higher costs for food.
Which of the following best compares a technological consequence of the Green Revolution in more developed and less developed countries?
Farmers in less developed countries were able to increase their profits from growing and exporting high-yield grain to levels similar to those in more developed countries.
Using the data shown in the table above, which of the following best explains the spatial variations of rural women's roles in food production and food preparation?
In less developed countries, females and males tend to participate equally in harvesting and preparation tasks.
The two images show different agricultural methods. In the context of the Second Agricultural Revolution, which of the following trends is represented in these images?
The mechanization of farming in the Second Agricultural Revolution resulted in more reliable crop harvests and healthier populations in areas where the mechanization was adopted.
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.
Commercial agriculture in dry climates relies heavily on irrigation. Which of the following best explains an environmental concern that results from irrigation in arid regions?
The soil will have increased salinity, leading to soil erosion and reduced nutrients in the soil for plant health.
Which of the following best explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions?
The wheat belt will shift northward
Which of the following correctly describes the hearth (origin) of the domestication of wheat?
Wheat was first domesticated in Mesopotamia because of a favorable climate and a great diversity of wild grains that led to crossbreeding of seeds.
The clearing of tropical rainforest for agriculture most often results in
a shift to animal raising
Compared to North American ranchers, commercial ranchers in the Pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil are more likely to
raise livestock primarily for export
Less developed countries generate funds to promote development through
selling export crops.
Land parcels U.S. Midwest tend to be rectilinear because
the federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth century imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape.
The growth potential of alternative agricultural practices such as the growing of amaranth grain and the raising of deer, elk, emus, and buffalo for meat is limited because
the growers have not established an integrated commodity chain
Which of the following scenarios best explains the Columbian Exchange?
Domesticated animals such as cattle, horses, pigs, and chickens were introduced to the Americas by European colonizers. Prior to this, very few animals had been domesticated in the Americas.