AP Human Geography Unit 5 Modules 38-40 Test Review

The high intensity of land use in Western countries from massive investments in ___

• migrant labor flow

• protective fencing

• machines, fertilizers, and pesticides

• organic farming techniques

• quality seed varieties

Which of the following has little to no subsistence agricultural production?

• Central Africa

• South Asia

• Southeast Asia

• Eastern Europe

• Central America

Which of the following does not describe commercial agricultural production?

• Production is targeted at market demands instead of the local village

• Operate with a large animal-based labor supply

• Small farms with high capital expenditures for equipment, seed, pesticides, and fertilizers

• large farms with hired labor

• The purpose is for the maximization of profit

Which of the following best explains bid-rent theory?

• the less desirable location closer to the central city decreases the land value

• the most desirable and highest price land includes areas of green space and market gardening

• the demand for and the price of land decreases as distance from the central business district increases

• the highest price land in the central city is where the transportation networks converge

• potential owners of unoccupied or abandoned lands will bid at an auction to rent the land

Which of the following is most likely to be raised or grown the furthest from the central city market on the least experience land?

• dairy cattle and egg-producing chickens

• potatoes and wheat

• lettuce and tomatoes

• beans and squash

• apples and bananas

Which of the following explains a large-scale commercial farm operation?

• multiple crop varieties raised in a season

• small plots of land raising a single crop

• raising crops that have already been sold to a processor before they are planted

• the purpose is exclusively for the production of agricultural commodities for sale in the market place

• production of food crops for export only to foreign markets

What conclusion is not correct regarding the decline in family farms?

• the decline is the result of the consolidation of midsize farms into larger operations

• production has shifted to larger farms from small farms substantially since 1991

• small labor-intensive operations like Dairy production, cannot survive due to the increase of operating costs

• the labor costs on a small farm are usually equal to any profit that can be raised

• the profit margins of 10 percent are very rare on small farms

Which of the following describes the relationship in the commodity chain image?

• the product moves from the producer to the consumer while the money moves from the consumer to the producer

• an agribusiness controls the profit margin for the product seller and the farm producer

• agricultural products cannot by-pass the processor or the distributor in a developed country

• the chain only functions under the direction of large corporations

• the farmer receives the largest profit margin along the chain

Which of the following explains how smaller farms can increase their profit while decreasing the cost of production?

• smaller farms rent farm equipment form the manufacturer

• smaller farms form cooperatives to purchase larger quantities of inputs at a volume discount increasing the profits

• smaller farms use migrant labor paying them less than fair wages

• smaller farms sell to local markets to minimize transportation costs

• smaller farms practice more organic and free-range production to eliminate the costs of inputs

Which of the following identifies the system of refrigeration and food-freezing technologies to keep farm produce fresh in climate-controlled environment from the farm to the retailer?

• chiller chain

• milk chain

• cool chain

• farm to market chain

• flash freezing