Agriculture Review

Which economic activity includes the service sector of the economy?

• Primary Activities
• Secondary Activities
• Tertiary Activities
• Quaternary Activities

What geographer suggested that certain crops are grown in direct relation to their distance from the market center?

• Johann Heinrich von Thunen
• Carl Sauer
• Thomas Malthus
• Jon Snow

According to von Thunen's Model, which agricultural zone is closest to the market?

• Livestock
• Commercial Grain
• Dairy Farming
• Forestry

All of the following are assumptions made in the von Thunen model EXCEPT

• Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers
• Farmers sell all of their harvest
• The city is located centrally within an isolated state
• Soil and climate are the same

The result of overgrazing in semi-arid climates is

• environmental modification
• desertification
• aquaculture
• desalination

According to Carl Sauer, there are two distinctive types of agriculture

• vegetative planting and double-cropping
• shifting cultivation and vegetative planting
• vegetative planting and seed agriculture
• slash-and-burn agriculture and double-cropping

Which crop is associated with intensive agriculture?

• Corn
• Rice
• Wheat
• Cotton

Farmers that produce food that they need to survive on a daily basis are called

• Commercial agriculture
• Industrial agriculture
• Slash-and-burn agriculture
• subsistence agriculture

Wet rice is the crop most associated with intensive agriculture for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• Is usually planted by hand
• Time consuming
• Labor intensive
• Expensive to grow

Pastoral Nomadism can be characterized as

• Extensive Subsistence agriculture
• Livestock Ranching
• Shifting agriculture
• Intensive Subsistence agriculture