APHUG Unit 5

A farmer who produces only enough food for the immediate family is practicing

• shifting cultivation
• intensive agriculture
• vegetative planting
• subsistence farming

One difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture is that with commercial agriculture

• more people work in the primary sector of the economy
• farm sizes grow smaller
• more extensive use is made of fertilizers
• crop yields are smaller

A form of commercial farming which focuses on the development, distribution and sale of milk, cheese and butter. 

• Livestock ranching
• Mediterranean Agriculture
• Milkshed
• Dairy Farming

Raising fish in ponds and underwater cages for human consumption. 

• Aquaculture
• Intertillage
• Green Revolution
• Overfishing

A large piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export crop, often a luxury crop. 

• Commercial grain farming
• Dairying
• Plantation
• Ranching

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. 

• Shifting cultivation
• Livestock ranching
• Transhumance
• Biotechnology

Which of the following best describes the Second Agricultural revolution?

• Benefits of Industrial Revolution, use of technology to increase production and distribution.
• Loss of farmland, degradation of soil, loss of farm jobs, loss of traditional varieties of plants.
• Use of biotechnology, expansion of mechanization of agriculture and reduction of farms. 
• A shift from hunting and gathering to planting crops to animal domestication. 

The two most widely traded commodities on a global scale today are...

• Rice and soybeans
• Coffee and oil
• Coffee and wheat
• Coffee and corn

When was agriculture developed?

• Approx. 30,000 years ago
• Approx. 20,000 years ago
• Approx 10,000 years ago
• Approx 5,000 years ago

Which of the following allowed hunter-gatherers to increase in population and have more reliable food sources? 

• Better weapons
• Remaining near the equator
• Inter-tribal cooperation
• Agricultural surplus