1. Agricultural Regions Ap human geography
Agriculture, food production, and rural land use unit

2. For today, 03/26 Pick up a handout
Don’t forget to register for the AP Academy – I’ve been told the link will be fixed soon

3. Socrative.com
Room

4. Decrease in Dairy Farms Increase in Organic Farms
Increased production of milk
Increased mechanization
Agribusiness and industrialization of agriculture
Small farms are less profitable and cannot compete
Urbanization
Increased demand in market
Sustainability – better care for the land influences consumer choice
Small farms unable to compete with agribusiness switch to more profitable ventures

5. Most basic types of agriculture
Commercial Agriculture (Market-oriented) and Subsistence Agriculture
Distinguished by five characteristics:
Purpose of farming
% of farmers in labor force
Use of machinery
Farm size
Agribusiness
Correlation to MDCs and LDCs?

6. Agricultural Regions: Correlation of Climate
Derwent Whittlesey, 1936 identified 11 regions and 1 “none here” region
Agricultural Regions in MDCs
Agricultural Regions in LDCs
Mixed crop and livestock
Dairy
Grain
Commercial gardening
Livestock ranching
Mediterranean
Plantation
Shifting cultivation
Intensive subsistence wet-rice dom.
Intensive subsistence wet-rice non.
Pastoral nomadism

7. Agricultural Regions Maps
(1.) Explain what it is
(2.)Use the colored pencils in the tray of your desk to shade in where it is practiced
Use textbook to find the information
Correlation of agriculture and climate?