10.1 AP Human Geography

The deliberate modification of Earths surface through cultivation of plants and reading or animals to obtain subsistence or economic gain

• Environmental determinism

• Agriculture

• choke point

• hierarchical diffusion

any plant cultivated by people

• physiological density

• crop

• arithmetic density

• lingua franca

Which of the following has 97% of the worlds farmers?

• developed world

• developing world

• China

• United States

What percent of US citizens are farmers?

• 10%

• 15%

• 2%

• 38%

Before the invention of agriculture all humans obtained food through

• hunting and gathering

• extensive trade

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• 7-11

Hunter gathers migration patterns were based upon which of the following?

• interactions with other large groups of humans

• small groups would migrate long distances while most people stayed in permanent settlements

• They tended to not migrate much since their food sources stayed on one location

• the movement of game and seasonal grwoth of plants at various locations.

the agricultural revolution began around?

• 8000 BCE

• 5000 BCE

• 8000 CE

• 10000 BCE

the time when humans first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering was the

• environmental determinism

• French Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• folk culture

All of the following were reasons for the origin of the Agricultural Revolution EXCEPT?

• the end of the last ice age

• redistribution of plants and animals and the end of last ice age

• desire of humasn to live in a fixed place

• a sudden drop in the worlds population

Barley and Wheat were first domesticated in

• Southwest Asia

• East Asia

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Latin America