Chapter 13 Reading Check Quiz

South Africa has both subsistence farms and well-developed commercial operations. Farmers who have the resources to invest in equipment, land, and materials participate in commercial agriculture. Farmers with fewer resources tend to be limited to providing food for their families.

• infrastructure

• agribusiness

• dual agricultural economy

• hybrid

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Section 1

Which is NOT an example of agricultural technology?

• Advanced farm machinery also increases production by improving efficiency.

• Governments continue to control the supply of certain crops by enacting quotas

• Scientists have taken the natural process of hybridization to intentionally create hybrid crops.

• The use of pesticides, including herbicides and insecticides, has led to higher crop yields.

Answer explanation

Section 1

Small family-owned enterprises account for less of the share of the world’s total farmland.

• True

• False

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Section 2

Which term is illustrated in the picture?

• commodity chain

• farm subsidies

• vertical integration

• tariffs

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Section 2

Some solutions to rising costs of production have been for the U.S. federal government to provide low-cost loans, insurance, and payments called--

• commodity chain

• farm subsidies

• vertical integration

• tariffs

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Section 2

Which term is illustrated in this picture?

• Bid Rent Model

• von Thünen model

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Section 3

Which TWO are assumptions of the von Thünen model?

• The market is located in an isolated, self-sufficient state without external influences.

• Timber and firewood were important commodities used for heating, cooking, and building.

• A single, centrally located market is the destination of a farmer’s produce.

• Land is less desirable here and therefore less expensive.

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Section 3

Consumers in a store in Canada who purchase vegetables that originated from a farm in the Netherlands are each part of the ______________.

As these networks have grown more complex, many regions of agricultural production and consumption have become increasingly interdependent.

• cash crop

• infastructure

• global supply chain

• farm subsidies

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Fill in the blank.

Section 4

Which country is a Net Exporter?

• Brazil

• Turkey

• India

• United States

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Section 4

The fair trade movement is a global campaign to fix unfair wage practices and protect the ability of farmers to earn a living.

• True

• False