Agriculture Review

According to Von Thunen's Model, which agricultural zone is closest to the market?

• Livestock
• Commercial Grain
• Dairy Farming
• Forestry

All of the following are assumptions made in the von Thunen model EXCEPT

• Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers
• Farmers sell all of their harvest
• The city is located centrally within an isolated state
• Soil and climate are the same

What geographer suggested that certain crops are grown in direct relation to their distance from the market center?

• Johann Heinrich Von Thunen
• Carl Sauer
• Thomas Malthus
• Jon Snow

Which of the following is an underlying assumption of von Thunen's model of rural land use?

• The city was its own state
• The city was completely surrounded by water
• Arid climates dominated the outer rings
• Farmers act under a profit driven mindset

According to von Thunen model, what costs does a commercial farmer consider MOST when deciding what crops top plant?

• Land cost and transportation cost
• Land cost and crop cost
• Crop cost and transportation cost
• Crop cost and production cost

What does sustainability mean?

• using lots of resources

• cutting down trees

• maintaining the world we live in for future generations

• using lots of water and electricity

There is consensus among historians that the ______  and the Neolithic Revolution were linked.

• domestication of animals
• Industrial Revolution
•  use of written language
• development of stone hunting tools

Which is not a form of subsistence agriculture?

• Mediterranean 
• Shifting cultivation
• Pastoral nomadism
• intensive wet rice

Why type of agriculture is found primarily is LDCs?

• Truck farming
• Commercial gardening and fruit farming
• Livestock ranching
• Plantation

Which is not a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

• Land is cleared by slashing the vegetation
• Debris is burned to provide the soil with nutrients
• A new site is designated every few years
• All of the above are characteristics