Unit 5 Chapter 9 : Agriculture

Which of the following is classified as a type of intensive farming?

• Shifting cultivation

• Market gardening

• Nomadic herding

• Ranching

• Monoculture

A farmer removes vegetation in an area and burns it to provide fertilizer for the land. Next, the farmer crops in this area for a couple of years until the soil isn’t fertile. Lastly, the farmer moves to another plot of land, while the previous land is allowed to fallow. The farmer is practicing...

• nomadic herding

• shifting cultivation

• livestock ranching

• pastoral nomadism

• plantation agriculture

____________ requires large amounts of labor and capital but smaller amounts of land .

• Intensive agriculture

• Extensive agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture

• Commercial agriculture

• Sedentary cultivation

In southern colonial areas most of the farmers lived far apart from each other. This is an example of which of the following?

• Clustered rural settlements.

• Dispersed rural settlements.

• Concentrated settlement clusters.

• Plantations.

• Linear settlements.

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

• plantation farming

• hunting and gathering

• subsistence agricultures

• Sedentary cultivation

• shifting-field agriculture

Sorghum, Yams, and Millet were first domesticated in

• Fertile Crescent

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Mesoamerica

• Southeast Asia

• East Asia

Which of the following refers to the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas that occurred during the sixteenth century between the New World of the Americas and the Old World of Europe?

• Mercantilism.

• Transhumance

• Second Agricultural Revolution

• Sustainable agriculture

• Columbian Exchange.

Which of the following is a negative consequence of the Green Revolution?

• Over-irrigation.

• The cost of technology

• The cost of seeds.

• Increased chemical use.

• All of the above.

Which of the following statements would NOT be associated with the Green Revolution?

• The Green Revolution involved the use of biotechnology and the genetic engineering of plants and animals.

• During the 1960s, U.S. genetic engineers helped to modify wheat so that it could better adapt to wetter and drier conditions in the field and not spoil

• The Green Revolution primarily dealt with the hybridization of crops and the increased usage of erosion control and irrigation.

• Transportation improvements were vital during the Green Revolution in order to get perishable goods to market in a timely manner.

• The Green Revolution is characterized by large industrial farms and the mass production of food.

Although coffee is native to the Middle East and North Africa its primary production region is Latin America. Which statement best explains this dislocation?

• Because of climate change coffee can no longer be grown in the areas to which it is native.

• Because of comparative advantage petroleum is produced in the Middle East allowing coffee to be grown profitably elsewhere.

• Because the largest market for coffee is in Latin America it is more profitable to produce it there.

• Because the largest market for coffee is in North America (Canada and USA) and bid-rent theory recommends that more valuable crops be grown there, coffee is produced in the next nearest region which is Latin America.

• Because coffee was established as a plantation crop by European colonizing countries it became established in Latin America, especially Brazil and Colombia, and has flourished there ever since.