Agriculture

Which two(2) of the following are characteristics of the first agricultural revolution?

• Commercial farming

• Domestication of plants and animals

• Subsistence farming

• Incorporation of industrial technology in agriculture

• Urban sprawl

__ is one way humans have modified the environment for agricultural purposes and involves creating new arable land by building a series of steps in the side of a hill or slope.

• Domestication

• Desertification

• Irrigation

• Terracing

__ is one way humans have modified the environment for agricultural purposes and involves applying controlled amounts of water

• Irrigation

• Damming

• Terracing

• Desalinization

__ is one way humans have modified the environment for agricultural purposes and involves rendering soil/land infertile through practices like slash and burn farming

• Terracing

• Irrigation

• Desertification

• Desalinization

Select all of the following that describe agricultural hearths.

• Biodiverse

• Infertile soil

• Moderate climate

• Access to saltwater

• Skilled residents

The first agricultural hearth emerged in the __

• Nile Valley

• Fertile Crescent

• Ganges Valley

• Yangtze Valley

Conditions of the atmosphere in one particular place at one particular time is __.

• Climate

• Global Warming

• Weather

• Runoff

Conditions of the atmosphere in one particular place over a long period of time (i.e. a year) is __.

• Global Warming

• Weather

• Runoff

• Climate

The mechanization of agriculture brought on by the industrial revolution caused

• Growth in factory workers as farmers lost their jobs

• The passing of enclosure acts to secure property rights

• An increase in farm jobs to fix new equipment

• A decrease in the cost of luxury goods

Introducing different crops to a patch of soil between planting cycles in order to revitalize its nutrients is called:

• Salinization

• Crop rotation

• Selective Breeding

• Desertification