AP Human Geography Unit 5 Quiz

What is the main factor that determines what humans are able to produce through agriculture?

• Temperature

• Longitude/Time

• Altitude/Elevation

• Latitude/Climate

What is the difference between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture?

• Subsistence agriculture focuses on profit, while commercial agriculture focuses on self-consumption.

• Subsistence agriculture is practiced in urban areas, while commercial agriculture is practiced in rural areas.

• Subsistence agriculture uses intensive methods, while commercial agriculture uses extensive methods.

• Subsistence agriculture is for self-consumption, while commercial agriculture is for profit.

Which type of agriculture involves farmers expending a great deal of effort to produce as much yield as possible from an area of land?

• Ranching

• Pastoral nomadism

• Shifting cultivation

• Intensive agriculture

What is the term for agriculture characterized by relatively few inputs and investment in labor and capital, resulting in low and less output?

• Subsistence agriculture

• Intensive agriculture

• Extensive agriculture

• Commercial agriculture

Which type of rural settlement pattern involves farmers living in close proximity to each other and working in fields nearby?

• Clustered

• Linear

• Concentric

• Dispersed

What is the name of the survey method that uses lines of latitude and longitude to divide up the property?

• Long lots

• Rectangular survey system

• Township and range

• Meets and bounds

What was the major development in human history that changed the way humans acquired food?

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Neolithic Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Renaissance

What is the term for the exchange of crops throughout the two hemispheres, revolutionizing food acquisition?

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Agricultural Revolution

• The Green Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution

Which revolution involved the mechanization of agriculture and the use of biotechnology to genetically modify food?

• Industrial Revolution

• Third Agricultural Revolution

• Second Agricultural Revolution

• First Agricultural Revolution

What is the term for the decline in small family farms and the rise in large corporate farms?

• Corporate control of farming

• Rural transformation

• Farm modernization

• Agricultural consolidation