Unit 5 Test Prep

Which of the following best explains the Green Revolution's highly variable level of success in increasing agricultural

yields in some parts of the world?

• It was not successful in China because the strain of rice produced was prone to widespread crop failures.

• The increased yield in sub-Saharan Africa decreased the incidence of famine, but the program was unsuccessful in India because of poor soil quality.

• Persistent famine has occurred in India since new

  technologies associated with the Green Revolution

  were implemented because only the wealthy could

  afford the increased cost of the improved strains of rice.

• Small-scale farmers in Asia often lacked the resources

  necessary to acquire the hybrid seeds and the chemical

  inputs to grow them.

• Rice production surpassed all other crop production in sub-Saharan Africa, but corn production in Mexico was less successful.

Palm oil is obtained from the fruit of the oil palm tree, grown only in the tropics. Which of the following explains how global demand for palm oil has proved good and bad for countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia?

• Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate

  profits, but increased government subsidies to palm oil

  farmers led to increased poverty in the two countries.

• Palm oil exports aided in increasing the wealth of the

  two countries but also increased the diversity of plants

  in the two countries.

• Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate

  profits, but the process led to high rates of

  unemployment for farmworkers at harvest time.

• Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate

  profits, but the growth in the industry resulted in heavy

  deforestation in both countries.

Which of the following explains why multiple early

hearths of domestication arose across the world?

• Domestication of plants and animals evolved in each

  hearth independently of one another.

• Domestication of plants and animals began in

  Southeast Asia and the process diffused to other areas

  as nomadic warriors conquered other cultural groups

  and carried the new seeds and animals with them.

• Domestication of plants and animals began in the

  Indus River valley and the process diffused to other

  areas across trade routes.

• Domestication of plants and animals began in Central

  America and the process diffused to other areas

  through the early explorers.

Which of the following explains the diffusion and

successful cultivation of many plants and animals in

new regions of the world through the Columbian

Exchange?

• The plants and animals diffused only a short distance

  away from their point of domestication.

• The plants and animals diffused to a region with

  climate and geography similar to that of their point of

  domestication.

• The plants and animals diffused to regions with

  variation in the climates between the hearth and the

  new region.

• Diffusion of plants and animals filled the loss in many

  areas from a number of plant and animal extinctions.

Which of the following best explains the reasons for the similarities and differences between metes-and-bounds and township-and-range?

• Both systems require geometric calculations to survey property lines. However, only properties surveyed with the metes-and-bounds system can be subdivided into smaller plots.

• Both systems are used in the United States. However, the township-and-range survey system is used only in the eastern part of the United States.

• Both systems set specific property boundaries for landholders. However, the metes-and-bounds system is more orderly and efficient.

• Both systems require geometric calculations to survey property lines. However, the township-and-range system uses simplified calculation to create a more ordered landscape.

During the winter months in North America, the

primary source of fruits and vegetables found in

grocery stores is

• Chile

• Nigeria

• Uruguay

• Philippines

• Italy

In less developed countries, pesticides are typically

applied by hand, whereas pesticides are typically

applied by tractors or aircraft in more developed

countries. Which of the following best explains the

risks associated with pesticide applications?

• Farm animals used to plow fields are at risk from

  pesticides in more developed countries, whereas

  environmental pollution is a risk is less developed

  countries.

• Farmers' health is at risk in less developed countries,

  whereas environmental pollution is a risk in more

  developed countries.

• Crops are at risk in more developed countries,

  whereas environmental pollution is a risk in less

  developed countries.

• Crop dusters are at risk when applying pesticides

  with aircraft in more developed countries, whereas

  environmental pollution is a risk in less developed

  countries.

• Contract harvesters are at risk in more developed

  countries, whereas environmental pollution is a risk in

  less developed countries.

What is bid-rent theory?

• Concentric rings of different agricultural activities

  surrounding a city in the midwestern United States

• Dispersed settlement throughout a large

  mountainous area of Switzerland

• Rural-to-urban migration increasing the population

  density to eastern China

• The conversion of agricultural land to suburbs

  surrounding a city in the southeastern United States

• Linear settlements located along a major road in a

  densely forested area of Brazil

Which of the following best explains why farmers

would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the

same field?

• Limited farmland encourages intensive farming and

  monocropping to produce high yields.

• Unlimited farmland encourages intensive farming

  with intercropping to produce high yields.

• Unlimited farmland encourages extensive farming

  with intercropping to produce high yields.

• Limited farmland encourages extensive farming with

  monocropping to produce high yields.

• Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with

  intercropping to produce high yields.