Haley Claunch Tessa Drews Alexandra Nelson Chapter 7 Agriculture and Rural Geography

Historical Geography of Agriculture Geography of Modern Agriculture Agriculture and the Environment Main Topics

Agribusiness Agriculture Animal husbandry Biotechnology Capital-intensive agriculture Commercial agricultural economy Dairying Desertification Domestication Extensive agriculture Feedlots Fertile Crescent Genetically modified organisms Green Revolution Hunting and gathering Industrial Revolution Intensive cultivation Labor-intensive agriculture Terms to know

Livestock ranching Mechanization Mediterranean agriculture Pastoralism Pesticides Planned agricultural economy Plantations Salinization Shifting cultivation Slash-and-burn agriculture Specialty crops Subsistence agricultural economy Swidden Topsoil loss Transhumance Urban sprawl Von Thunen model Terms continued…

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What are the three sectors of primary economic activities and which sector does agriculture belong in?

TRUE or FALSE? Agriculture is the deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber.

TRUE or FALSE? One of the major migrations involved with agriculture was early Asia to Australia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa

What are the changes that resulted from the Neolithic revolution?

TRUE or FALSE? According to Carl Sauer, the earliest form of plant cultivation was seed agriculture

When and where did the second agricultural revolution begin? It intensified agriculture by promoting higher yields per acre and per farmer

Farmers in less developed countries usually produce food through what type of agriculture?

Shifting Cultivation Specialty Crops Swidden Transhumance Urban Sprawl The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile lands Land that is prepared for agriculture by using the slash-and-burn method The use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost Crops including items like peanuts and pineapples which are produced in developing countries for export The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land Agriculture and Rural Geography

In what ways can subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture be compared?

TRUE or FALSE? The sub regions for subsistence farming include intensive subsistence, shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism

What are the sub regions for commercial agriculture?

TRUE or FALSE? Von Thunen identified market gardening and dairy, forest, field crops and animal grazing as the four rings that surround market centers

What are the two main patterns of settlement?

TRUE or FALSE? The different building materials for houses include wood, brick, stone, wattle, thatch and sod

agriculture Animal husbandry biotechnology Capital intensive agriculture Commercial agricultural economy All agricultural activity generated for the purpose of selling A form of technology that uses living organisms to modify products or for other purposes Art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for human consumption Agricultural activities associated with the raising of domesticated animals such as cattle, horses, sheep and goats Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods to produce large amounts of agricultural goods Agriculture and Rural Geography

TRUE or FALSE? The village forms include round villages, walled villages, grid villages, linear villages, and cluster villages

When did the third agricultural revolution begin and is this still occurring today?

Desertification Domestication Extensive Agriculture Feedlots Green Revolution The development of higher yield crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers for specific reasons A system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid and desert-like The conscious manipulation of plant and animal species by humans in order to sustain themselves Places where livestock are concentrated in very small areas and raised on hormones and hearty grains Agriculture and Rural Geography

What are some environmental impacts of modern agriculture?

What are some of the strategies used to ensure and improve the production and distribution of adequate food products around the world?

Intensive Cultivation Labor-intensive Agriculture Livestock Ranching Pastoralism Planned Agricultural Economy An economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution Agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic space Any agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land Agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful Agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter Agriculture and Rural Geography

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