AP Human Geography - Agriculture

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

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

Agricultural hearths developed in four areas around the world EXCEPT

• Central America
• Eastern Europe
• Northwestern South America
• Western Africa

A major benefit to crop rotation would be

• Several different crops produced in the same year
• Nitrogen is put into the soil, which is needed for plants
• Requires less manual labor
• Farmers can replenish the soild and improve agricultural productivity

The Third Agricultural Revolution is also known as 

• GMO Revolution
• Seed Agricultural Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

All of the following are true about the Green Revolution EXCEPT

• Takes place mainly in science laboratories
• Only tested on farms in MDCs
• Allows for plants and animals that grow in conditions they normally would not
• Led to the increase in industrial farming

Shifting cultivation is most commonly found in which climate region?

• Dry
• Tropical
• Polar
• Warm temperate

Which of the following pairs of agricultural types occupies the largest percentage of the world’s total land area?

• Cattle ranching and Mediterranean agriculture
• Plantation agriculture and specialized horticulture
• Shifting cultivation and nomadic herding
• Intensive rice cultivation and subsistence farming

Corn was first domesticated in

• the Tibetan Plateau
• the Canadian Prairie.
• Central Mexico
• Northern Argentina.