APHG Chapter 10

The Third Agricultural Revolution is also known as the

• Green Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Genetic Revolution

• Rice Revolution

• Plantation Revolution

All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT

• Dairy farming

• Specialized fruit production

• Cattle ranching

• Grain farming

• Pastoral nomadism

A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing

• Subsistence agriculture

• Commercial farming

• Crop rotation

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Shifting cultivation

Market-gardening activities occur in which zone of Von Thünen’s model of agricultural land use?

• First zone

• Second zone

• Third zone

• Fourth zone

• Sixth zone

Which of the following was a short-term result of the collectivization of agricultural production in Communist countries?

• Increased labor cost

• Urbanization

• Deindustrialization

• Food shortages

• Lower food costs

All of the following are plantation crops EXCEPT

• Cotton

• Tea

• Sugar cane

• Rubber

• Wheat

Which of the following methods of farming has become more popular in response to the widespread use of pesticides in farming?

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Crop rotation

• Organic farming

• Shifting agriculture

• Agricultural industrialization

Which of the following was developed during the Third Agricultural Revolution?

• The cotton gin

• Animal domestication

• Cattle ranching

• Genetic engineering

• Seed agriculture

Which of the following describes how winter wheat is planted and harvested?

• Planted in the fall, harvested in the winter

• Planted in the spring, harvested in the summer

• Planted in the winter, harvested in the spring

• Planted in the spring, harvested in the winter

• Planted in the fall, harvested in the spring

All of the following crops are products of Mediterranean agriculture EXCEPT

• Olives

• Grapes

• Dates

• Figs

• Apples