1. AP Human Geography Theoretical Model Review
Mr. Stepek

2. Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land Use

3. Characteristics of Agricultural Regions

4. Von Thunen’s Land Use Model
Spatial organization of agriculture around a market is based on profit which is closely related to the cost of transportation, land and the perishability of food.
Bid-rent theory
Intensive vs. extensive agriculture

5. FIGURE 10-24

6. Agricultural Revolutions
Where, when, what impact?
Neolithic Revolution
2nd Agricultural Revolution

7. Agricultural Revolutions
Where, when, what impact?
3rd Agricultural Revolution (Green Revolution)

8. Other Agricultural and Rural Lane Use Issues
Land use/land cover change: irrigation, desertification (soil degradation, overgrazing), extensive fertilizer and pesticide use, animal wastes, deforestation, wetland destruction, river and aquifer depletion.
Conservation vs preservation.
Roles of women in agricultural production.
Cadastral systems and rural land use and settlement patterns.
Industrial agriculture, including the transition in land use to large-scale commercial farming, factory farming and factors affecting the location of processing facilities
Sustainable and organic farming, crop rotation, fair trade, and eat-local-food movements

9. Agriculture Sample FRQ #1

10. Agriculture Sample FRQ #1

11. Agriculture Sample FRQ #2

12. Agriculture Sample FRQ #2 Rubric

13. Agriculture Sample FRQ #2 Rubric