APHG Unit 5 Agriculture

A farmer who produces only enough food for their immediate family is practicing

• Shifting cultivation

• Intensive agriculture

• Vegetative planting

• Subsistence farming

Increasing global food production by expanding the amount of land under cultivation is limited by the fact that

• Technology is lacking in many less developed countries

• Most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation

• Few young people want to be farmers

• Governments are unwilling to give up public lands

Which form of farming is typically most concentrated near population centers?

• Dairy farming

• Cereal farming

• Mixed crop and livestock

• Mediterranean

The Green Revolution has had the least impact on people who live in

• Southeast Asia

• China

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• India

What is the growing of fruits, vegetables and flower called?

• Horticulture
• Agriculture
• Subsistence Agriculture
• Truck farming

When was the first Agricultural Revolution?

• About 4000 B.C
• About 6000 BC
• About 8000 BC
• About 12000 B.C

The Second Agricultural Revolution occurred at the same time as the

• American Civil War
• Industrial Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Boxer Rebellion

All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT

• dairy farming
• pastoral nomadism
• cattle ranching
• specialized fruit production

A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is particing

• subsistence agriculture
• shifting cultivation
• crop rotation
• slash-and-burn agriculture

Which of the following crops is grown on the sides of terraced hills to allow flowing water to run over the plants?

• Wheat
• Rice
• Taro
• Soybeans