N5 Changes in the Rural Landscape

What would you expect to find an pastoral farm?

• crops

• crops and livestock

• livestock

Commercial farming is ...

• growing just enough for your own family

• when the farm is up for sale

• when the farm grows enough to sell to others such as supermarkets

What would you expect to find an arable farm?

• livestock

• crops

• crops and livestock

Subsistence farming is ...

• growing just enough for your own family

• when the farm is sinking into the ground.

• when the farm grows enough to sell to others such as supermarkets

Which of the following words describes a farm which relies on relatively low input levels of fertilizers, and pharmaceuticals while having a large area of land.

• intensive

• extensive

High inputs of capital, fertilizers, labour, or labour-saving technologies such as pesticides relative to land area can be described as

• intensive farming

• extensive farming

Which part of the farming system do the following belong to; shearing ploughing and harvesting.

• inputs

• processes

• outputs

The Great Plains earned the name "the dust bowl" due to ______, which left the soil dry and easily blown away by the wind.

Which part of the farming system do the following belong to; precipitation, seeds and machinery.

• inputs

• processes

• outputs

Which of the following is not a state on the Great Plains?

• Montana

• Colorado

• Kansas

• Louisiana