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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

Agricultural hearths developed in four areas around the world EXCEPT

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

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

All of the following are aspects of commercial agriculture EXCEPT

• a heavy reliance on machinery
• the product is consumed off the farm
• there is little relationship to other businesses
• a small percentage of the workforce is engaged directly in agriculture.

Corn was first domesticated in

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

Which of the following includes the world’s earliest centers of plant domestication?

• Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Africa
• Russia, China, Latin America
• British Isles, Scandinavia, United States
• Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East

The second agricultural revolution coincided with

• the Industrial Revolution.
• the first wave of European migration
• Imperialism
• the Enlightenment.

Which of the following statements is true?

• Only animals have hearths.
• Only crops have hearths.
• Different animals and crops emerged from different hearths.
• All domesticated animals emerged from the same hearth.