APHG Unit 5 Quiz: 5.6 -5.12

Overgrazing and overfarming pasture areas has contributed to which problem?

• Desertification

• Soil loss

• Acid rain

• Famine

According to the von Thuenen model, which activity is likely to be found furthest from population centers?

• Grain farming

• Livestock ranching

• Market gardening

• Forestry

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

large-scale farming, mostly in MDCs, focused on raising one type of crop or animal to sell for profit.

• subsistence agriculture

• pastoral nomadism

• double cropping

• commercial agriculture

small-scale farming, mostly in LDCs, focused on raising food for direct consumption of a family or community.

• subsistence agriculture

• pastoral nomadism

• double cropping

• commercial agriculture

genetically modified organisms; use of engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed.

• hybridization

• GMO

• cloning

• double cropping

commercial agriculture integrated with the food-processing industry, usually through ownership of large corporations, mostly found in MDCs

• transhumance

• intensive subsistence

• pastoral nomadism

• agribusiness

the cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions

• hydro farming

• horticulture

• aqueduct

• aquaculture

public support (usually from governments) to farmers to ensure that consumers have a dependable, low-cost supply of food

• Enclosure Acts

• Micro finance

• Subsidies

• Agriloans

A negative impact of industrial/commercial agriculture is

• a decrease in amount of crops produced

• an increase in amount of crops produced

• increased water and air pollution

• decrease in the amount of machinery used