APHG Review

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

• Livestock
• Commercial Grain
• Dairy Farming
• Forestry

The result of overgrazing in semi-arid climates is

• environmental modification
• desertification
• aquaculture
• desalination

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

Mediterranean agriculture must be practiced in a climate that is

• Wet summer, dry winter
• Plentiful rainfall year round
• Dry summer, cool moist winter
• Mild and dry year round

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.

Physiological density is defined as 

• the average farm production compared to arable land.
• the number of farmers as compared to the total population.
• the number of people compared to arable land.
• the number of farms compared to the total land area.

A region where boundaries are very thinly or weakly developed, zones where territoriality is unclear and not well established.

• Frontier
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State
• Satellite State