APHG Unit 5 Review

Overgrazing and overfarming pasture areas has contributed to which problem?

• Desertification

• Soil loss

• Acid rain

• Famine

The majority of the world's population engaged in agriculture is engaged in what TYPE of agriculture?

• Mixed crop and livestock

• Agribusiness

• Subsistence agriculture

• Market gardening

According to the von Thuenen model, which of these activities is most likely to be found closest to markets/population centers?

• Forestry

• Livestock ranching

• Grain farming

• Market gardening

In the Mediterranean climate zone, which cash crops are the most important?

• Cotton and sugarcane

• Citrus fruits and tree nuts

• Tomatoes and lettuce

• Olives and grapes

Which agricultural technology was central to the Second Agricultural Revolution?

• Steel plow

• Biotechnology

• Combine harvester

• Chemical fertilizer

Which form of commercial agriculture is most often found in the developing world?

• Agribusiness

• Market gardening

• Grain farming

• Plantation agriculture

A farmer who produces only enough food for their immediate family is practicing

• Shifting cultivation

• Intensive agriculture

• Vegetative planting

• Subsistence farming

Which of the following does NOT characterize modern industrial agriculture?

• Specialized crops

• Signing agreements with buyer-processors

• Global trade

• Participation by farmers in less developed countries

Increasing global food production by expanding the amount of land under cultivation is limited by the fact that

• Technology is lacking in many less developed countries

• Most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation

• Few young people want to be farmers

• Governments are unwilling to give up public lands

Which of the following was NOT a commodity first raised in the Americas and traded to the Eastern Hemisphere during the Columbian Exchange?

• Beans

• Wheat

• Squash

• Potatoes