AP Human Geography- Agriculture Practice Review!

Which of the following is an important agricultural hearth?

• Ethiopia

• North America

• Southwest Asia

• All Answers are true

When does the government subsidize prices or pay for farmers to have empty fields?

• want to donate the surplus to LDCs

• they don't do that because we are a free market system

• The government plays no role in agricutlure

• to compensate for overproduction to prevent inflation

Which of the following statements are true about drug crops impact on food supply?

• Farmers in LDCs grow drug crops for great profit

• Drug crops use up arable land that could be used for food

• MDC's produce a majority of the worlds Drug Crops

• Drug Crops are a parasitic and invasive species

Which of the following is not commercial farming?

• Pastoral nomadism

• Agribusiness

• Mediterranean

• Livestock and Cattle Ranching

What agriculture do we primarily find in LDC's?

• Mediterranean

• plantations

• truck/fruit farming

• dairy farming

What type of agriculture uses the largest percentage of the World's land area?

• dairying

• mediterranean

• plantation

• shifting cultivation

What type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?

• pastoral nomadism

• hunting and gathering

• dairying

• intensive subsistence

Farmers in Asia primarily primarily practice...

• pastoral nomadism

• intensive subsistence

• shifting cultivation

• hunting and gathering

intensive subsistense agriculture

• uses smaller farms

• has a high agricultural density

• uses animal power and some machines

• All answers are true

The most significant factor as to why North China grows crops other than wet rice is...

• Cultural tradition

• Ethnic precedence

• climate

• soil