Unit # 5 Review Game

According to the theory of environmental deter-minism, which of the following areas would have the most productive settlements?

• Tropical Regions

• Temperate Regions

• Mountainous Regions

• Arctic Regions

• Arid Regions

Which of the following best explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions?

• The wheat belt will shift northward.

• Mediterranean agriculture will expand southward.

• Polar regions will dry out, making cultivation impossible.

• Nomadic herding will end as conditions become too harsh.

• Centers of market gardening will shift to the Arctic Circle.

Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?

• Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city in the midwestern United States

• Rural-to-urban migration increasing the population density to eastern China

• Linear settlements located along a major road in a densely forested area of Brazil

• Dispersed settlement throughout a large mountainous area of Switzerland

• The conversion of agricultural land to suburbs surrounding a city in the southeastern United States

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.

Palm oil, an edible vegetable oil used in processing packaged food products, 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 beneficial and detrimental 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 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.

• Palm oil exports provided increased income to the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, but the number of farmers employed on palm oil plantations decreased 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.

Which of the following explains why multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arose across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River valley, and Southeast Asia?

• Domestication of plants and animals began in Central America and the process diffused to other areas through the early explorers.

• Domestication of plants and animals evolved in each hearth independently of one another as societies in each area learned and applied the process to local plants and animals.

• 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 Fertile Crescent and the process diffused as pastoral nomads migrated to other areas.

• Domestication of plants and animals began in the Indus River valley and the process diffused to other areas across trade routes.

Which of the following best explains how the expansion of feedlots for raising cattle has affected environmental sustainability in rural areas?

• Concentrating large numbers of farm animals in small spaces has decreased the release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

• Runoff from animal waste has increased the pollution in local water supplies.

• Feed grains have eliminated potentially harmful invasive plant species from farmland.

• Land development has increased the available water supply for other farming practices.

• Composted manure has introduced valuable nutrients into previously depleted soils.

Genetic engineering of agricultural crops has primarily increased the productivity of modern farming by

• converting annual plants to perennials, which do not require replanting

• increasing the size of fruits and grains

• increasing plants’ drought resistance and resistance to pests

• cutting the cost of bulk seeds during planting seasons

• changing vegetable and fruit colors to suit consumer demands

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?

• Crop dusters are at risk when applying pesticides with aircraft in more developed countries, whereas environmental pollution is a risk in less developed countries.

• 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.

• Contract harvesters are at risk in more developed countries, whereas environmental pollution is a risk in less developed countries.

Between 1950 and 1990, wheat production in India in average pounds per acre more than tripled, which allowed India to meet its population’s need for food. Which of the following best explains this change?

• The elimination of poverty in India’s rural regions

• The use of genetically modified seeds

• The increase in the microloan programs that provide farmers with credit

• The use of large farm tractors and combine harvesters

• The use of improved plant hybrids and agricultural chemicals