Agriculture Sections 1-2

Which of these statements is FALSE about the beginnings of Agriculture?

• The 1st Agricultural Revolution happened about 10,000 years ago

• Environmental and Cultural factors both influenced early agriculture

• The earliest hunter-gatherers changed their farming practices each time they moved

• There is evidence that agriculture started in multiple hearths around the same time

Which of these DID originally come from the Americas?

• Maize (corn)

• chickens

• chocolate

• pigs

The FIRST important historic event in the diffusion (spread) of agricultural plants, animals, and practices was __.

• The 1st Agricultural Revolution about 10,000 years ago

• The Columbian Exchange

• The 2nd Agricultural Revolution about 300 years ago

• The Silk Road connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia

The most important changes that came with the 2nd Agricultural Revolution were related to __.

• knowledge about plants and animals from other parts of the world

• improvements in mechanization and transportation that did work faster and added more variety to diets

• improvements in science and genetics that maximized seeds and introduced chemical fertilizers

• knowledge about how to grow food and raise animals, which led to humans living in larger settlements

Probably the most important consequence of the 1st Agricultural Revolution 10,000 years ago was __.

• People began living in large settlements, and entire civilizations began

• People began polluting rivers and water sources with chemicals

• People began to move to big cities, where all of the machinery and jobs were

• People started trading their products with other regions of the world

The most significant consequence of the 2nd Agricultural Revolution that happened 300 years ago was __.

• New chemical fertilizers allowed for 3x the food production

• People were able to produce their own food for the first time, so civilizations started

• With all the food production, more people moved to the countryside to grow crops

• A surplus of food improved life expectancy, and many people moved to the cities

Norman Borlaug's work accompanied the __.

• 2nd Agricultural Revolution

• 1st Agricultural Revolution

• Columbian Exchange

• 3rd Agricultural Revolution

Borlaug's work with wheat in __ helped win him the Nobel Prize.

• Mexico and India

• China and Africa

• Brazil and Italy

• Ethiopia and Australia

Which of these pairs is CORRECT?

• 2nd Agricultural Revolution and Normal Borlaug

• Green Revolution and GMOs

• 2nd Agricultural Revolution and chemical fertilizers

• 1st Agricultural Revolution and mechanization and machinery

Which of these is NOT one of the ways we learned how to tell the difference between commercial and subsistence farming?

• the percentage of people in a country that work in agriculture

• if a country has any undernourisment or not

• how much technology and science is used in agriculture in a country

• the size of the average farm in a country