AP Human Geography Unit 5

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Which of the following best explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions? The wheat belt will shift northward. Mediterranean agriculture will expand southward. Polar regions will dry out, making cultivation impossible. Nomadic herding will end as conditions become too harsh.

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The wheat belt will shift northward.

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Which of the following best explains the importance of climate to agricultural practices? Options: Agricultural crops are successful only in midlatitude climates, where any crop can be grown. Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China. Tropical climates support plant-based agriculture, but animal-based agriculture is not successful in tropical areas. The sparse vegetation in arid or semiarid climates does not support animal-based agriculture.

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Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China.

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Sheep production in New Zealand and poultry production in Arkansas produce food animals for human consumption. Which of the following best describes the differences in the agricultural practices and land use for these products?

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Sheep production is an example of extensive agriculture requiring large pastures, whereas poultry production is an example of intensive agriculture often practiced indoors.

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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.

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Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.

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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, Rural-to-urban migration increasing the population density to eastern China, Linear settlements located along a major road in a densely forested area of Brazil, Dispersed settlement throughout a large mountainous area of Switzerland

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Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city in the midwestern United States

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In the South Asian country of Sri Lanka, tea is farmed as a monoculture. Which of the following best explains why tea plantations are common in Sri Lanka and tea exports are important to the country's economy? Options: Sri Lanka's unique climate and terrain make it one of the only countries where tea plants thrive. Tea plantations were established in Sri Lanka by a former European colonial power. The early hearth of tea plant domestication is located in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans drink more tea per capita than any other nationality.

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Tea plantations were established in Sri Lanka by a former European colonial power.

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Why have many family farms in North America been replaced by agribusiness farms since the 1980s?

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Agribusiness farms have the resources to take advantage of economies of scale.

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Which of the following explains the role of commodity chains in the average size of farms?

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Commodity chains have led to changes in the spatial organization of agriculture from dispersed family farms to large corporate farms that produce, process, and distribute the products.

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Which of the following is an explanation for the similar impact of large-scale commercial agriculture in developed countries and plantation agriculture in developing countries?

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Both farming practices involve the consolidation of family farms and displacement of rural communities.

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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?

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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.