AP Human Geography Unit 5

Which of the following best explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions?

• The wheat belt will shift northward.

• Mediterranean agriculture will expand southward.

• Polar regions will dry out, making cultivation impossible.

• Nomadic herding will end as conditions become too harsh.

Which of the following best explains the importance of climate to agricultural practices?

• Agricultural crops are successful only in midlatitude climates, where any crop can be grown.

• Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China.

• Tropical climates support plant-based agriculture, but animal-based agriculture is not successful in tropical areas.

• The sparse vegetation in arid or semiarid climates does not support animal-based agriculture.

Sheep production in New Zealand and poultry production in Arkansas produce food animals for human consumption. Which of the following best describes the differences in the agricultural practices and land use for these products?

• Sheep production is an example of intensive agriculture requiring large amounts of fertilizer, whereas poultry production is an example of extensive agriculture practiced mainly in more developed countries.

• Sheep production and poultry production are both examples of extensive agriculture practiced on large areas of land, but requiring different climates.

• Sheep production is an example of extensive agriculture requiring large pastures, whereas poultry production is an example of intensive agriculture often practiced indoors.

• Sheep production and poultry production are both examples of intensive agriculture practiced on small areas of land but requiring different amounts of labor and capital.

Which of the following best explains why farmers would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the same field?

• Limited farmland encourages intensive farming and monocropping to produce high yields.

• Unlimited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.

• Unlimited farmland encourages extensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.

• Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.

Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?

• Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city in the midwestern United States

• Rural-to-urban migration increasing the population density to eastern China

• Linear settlements located along a major road in a densely forested area of Brazil

• Dispersed settlement throughout a large mountainous area of Switzerland

In the South Asian country of Sri Lanka, tea is farmed as a monoculture. Which of the following best explains why tea plantations are common in Sri Lanka and tea exports are important to the country's economy?

• Sri Lanka's unique climate and terrain make it one of the only countries where tea plants thrive.

• Tea plantations were established in Sri Lanka by a former European colonial power.

• The early hearth of tea plant domestication is located in Sri Lanka.

• Sri Lankans drink more tea per capita than any other nationality.

Why have many family farms in North America been replaced by agribusiness farms since the 1980s?

• A decrease in the consumption of meat has resulted in less demand for cattle, which are mainly raised on family farms.

• Agribusiness farms have the resources to take advantage of economies of scale.

• Little available land for pasture farming has resulted in more concentrated agribusiness operations.

• More interest in genetically modified foods has led to an increase in agribusiness farms, which have greater access to advanced technology.

Which of the following explains the role of commodity chains in the average size of farms?

• The spatial organization of agriculture has changed because of an increase in the number of farms as farmers join local commodity chains that regulate supply and demand for agricultural products and large profits can be realized.

• The spatial organization of agriculture has remained stable, but farm productivity has increased through technological innovations that are available to farmers through membership in local commodity chains.

• Commodity chains have led to changes in the spatial organization of agriculture from dispersed family farms to large corporate farms that produce, process, and distribute the products.

• Farms are increasing in size, but there is little change in the spatial organization of agriculture because of the instability of regional cooperatives and associated commodity chains that cannot meet the demand for new products desired by consumers.

Which of the following is an explanation for the similar impact of large-scale commercial agriculture in developed countries and plantation agriculture in developing countries?

• Both farming practices stimulate local economies with the influx of profits from export-oriented crops.

• Both farming practices involve the consolidation of family farms and displacement of rural communities.

• Both farming practices provide an increased standard of living in rural communities from the many jobs created to run these large farms.

• Both farming practices enable local farmers to remain on their land rather than migrating to jobs in urban areas.

Which of the following explains why multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arose across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River valley, and Southeast Asia?

• Domestication of plants and animals began in Central America and the process diffused to other areas through the early explorers.

• Domestication of plants and animals evolved in each hearth independently of one another as societies in each area learned and applied the process to local plants and animals.

• Domestication of plants and animals began in Southeast Asia and the process diffused to other areas as nomadic warriors conquered other cultural groups and carried the new seeds and animals with them.

• Domestication of plants and animals began in the Fertile Crescent and the process diffused as pastoral nomads migrated to other areas.