1. Intensive subsistence
Distinctive style of agriculture, practiced in the population concentrations of East and South Asia

2. What is the most important crop grown in East Asia
What is the most important crop grown in East Asia? Why is it grown in the southern part of this region and not the north?
rice, milder climate

3. In shifting cultivation, how is the land cleared?
slash and burn

4. The distinctive type of agriculture practiced in dry lands of less developed countries is
pastoral nomadism.

5. Distinctive type agriculture practiced in the dry lands of the southwestern United States
livestock ranching

6. Distinctive agriculture practiced in the U. S
Distinctive agriculture practiced in the U.S. Midwest, from Ohio to Iowa, two most important crops
mixed crops and livestock; corn and soybeans

7. Distinctive agriculture in the Northeastern United States
dairying

8. What kind of crops are encouraged to be grown in LDCs to raise money?
luxury crops for export, cash crops, and items for consumption abroad

9. How did people obtain food before the invention of agriculture?
hunting and gathering

10. What are the predominant types of agriculture in the different regions of Europe
Northwest – dairying
South – Mediterranean
East – grain

11. About _______ of people in the world are farmers.
two thirds

12. Wheat is primarily consumed by
humans

13. Subsistence agriculture is designed mainly to generate food for
survival

14. Most people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are __________ farmers.
subsistence

15. Who is practicing hunting and gathering and where is it happening?
isolated groups in Africa, Australia, and South America

16. Does shifting cultivation support large population groups in East and South Asia?no

17. How much of the world’s milk production do LDCs provide?
very little

18. Is ranching practiced in LDCs and MDCs in dry lands?
yes

19. In mixed crops and livestock regions, what are the crops used for?
feed livestock

20. Is New Zealand a major dairy producing region?
yes

21. Why are agricultural products being consumed on or off the farm so important?
it is important to determine how the world will be divided into agricultural regions

22. Describe hunting and gathering.
form of nomadism, live in small groups, all humans obtained their food this way before the invention of agriculture, it is still practiced

23. Where are hunting and gathering societies located?
isolated places around the world

24. Origins of agricultural hearths
Northern China, Southeast Asia, South America, Ethiopia

25. Vegetative planting
cultivation of plants by cutting stems and dividing roots

26. Vegetative planting (originated)
southeast Asia

27. Seed agriculture originated in
the eastern hemisphere in northern China, western India, Ethiopia

28. The first group to domesticate animals and use seed agriculture did so in _________ Asia.
southwest

29. Seed agriculture reached Europe from ____________
Asia.
southwest

30. Why do different agricultural practices arise in different regions?
cultural traits, limited knowledge of alternatives, physical characteristics of the land, climate

31. Different forms of subsistence farming
intensive, shifting cultivation, pastoral nomadism

32. Which type of large scale agriculture takes place in LDCs?
plantation

33. Characteristics of shifting cultivation
swiddens not under cultivation are used for fruit trees, new site designated every few years, land cleared by slashing vegetation, debris is burned to provide nutrients for the soil

34. Where is shifting cultivation most commonly found?
humid-low latitude

35. Which type of agriculture occupies the largest percentage of the world’s land area?
shifting cultivation

36. What type of agriculture is practiced by largest percentage of the world’s people?
intensive subsistence

37. Why do some people defend shifting cultivation in the tropics?
destroys less rain forest than permanently clearing the land, cultural diversity of folk customs, permanently clearing fields and using fertilizers will destroy tropical soil

38. The 15 million people that are nomads occupy what percentage of the earth’s surface?
20%

39. The largest percentage of farmers in Asia practice what type of agriculture
intensive subsistence agriculture

40. Which uses more animal power, shifting cultivation or intensive subsistence agriculture?

41. Asian agriculture is characterized by many shortages, but __________ is not one of them.
labor

42. Characteristics of growing rice in Asia
transplanting seedlings into flooded fields, flooding the plowed field with water, preparing field with a plow drawn by oxen, growing seedlings in a nursery

43. What influence does climate have on Northern China?
people in Northern China grow other crops besides wet rice.

44. Pastoral nomadism - climate
dry

45. Seasonal migration of livestock
transhumance

46. double cropping
farmers in southeastern China practice double cropping to increase crop yields

47. threshing
practice of separating husk from seeds by beating the heads of grain on the ground

48. Most common form of commercial agriculture in Europe
mixed crop and livestock farming

49. agribusiness
food production business in the United States

50. crop rotation
maintain the fertility of the fields

51. The primary in von Thuen’s model choosing commercial farm products is
market location.

52. What countries are the world’s leading producers of commercial grain?
the United States, China, Russia and India

53. After corn, what is the most important crop in the United States mixed crop and livestock region?
soybean

54. In the winter wheat region, the crop is planted in
autumn and harvested in the summer.

55. In areas of the world with Mediterranean agriculture, they have ____________ in common.
climate