APHG Unit 5 Review

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

• Tropical Regions

• Temperate regions

• Mountainous regions

• Arctic regions

• Arid regions

Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following in modern

agriculture?

• The development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas

• The construction of new irrigation systems and a reduction in the use of fertilizers

• An increase in the circulation of investment capital to help the poorest farmers

• The loss of prime agricultural land and smaller yields from grain crops

• The end of famine in the world

In which of the following areas was wheat most probably domesticated earliest?

• Southern Italy

• Northern Libya

• The plateau of central Mexico

• Eastern China

• Southeastern Turkey

Indonesia is an example of which of the following types of states?

• Prorupted

• Perforated

• Compact

• Fragmented

• Bifurcated

Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT

• political stability

• colonization by individual pioneer families

• agricultural private enterprise

• government land policy

• physical barriers preventing communal farm practices

Land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear because

• the federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth century imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape

• Native American settlement patterns were rectangular

• English-speaking settlers replicated the landscape patterns of England

• Spanish colonists laid out settlements in a rigid geometric pattern

• there were no mountains or rivers to use as boundaries

Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced

• in the dry regions of Africa and Asia

• in the tropical regions of Africa and Asia

• in the hinterlands of Australia

• by Native American buffalo hunters

• by people who shift location in pursuit of rain clouds

Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called

• plantation farming

• hunting and gathering

• subsistence agriculture

• sedentary cultivation

• shifting-field agriculture

Von Thünen emphasized which of the following factors in his model of agricultural land use?

• Labor cost

• Transportation cost

• Fertilizer cost

• Machinery cost

• Seasonal fluctuations in prices of farm products

Which of the following activities is most likely to be found in the outermost zone of von Thünen's model of agricultural land use?

• Mixed farming

• Subsistence farming

• Specialty farming

• Dairying and market gardening

• Extensive grain or stock raising