AP Geo, Economics [Population, Agriculture, Development]

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

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

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.

According to geographer Carl Sauer, agriculture probably first originated in

• the Fertile Crescent.
• Southeast Asia
• South America
• Europe

All of the following are types of subsistence agriculture EXCEPT

• pastoral nomadism.
• shifting cultivation.
• swidden agriculture
• truck farming