Ch. 9 Food Supply and Agriculture Quiz

Which of the following is a commonly proposed strategy to address issues with food supply?

• increasing agricultural productivity

• increasing employment in fishing

• limiting food sources

• expanding imports

• decreasing agricultural land

A combination of environmental and cultural factors led to...

• hunters and gatherers to begin agriculture.

• hunters and gatherers moving from place to place.

• the Industrial Revolution.

• crop hearths being discovered.

They occupy only their own territory, moving with the seasons to find forage and water.

• Hunter and gatherers

• Subsistence farmers

• Commercial farmers

• Pastoral nomads

__________ are found in isolated places in the world.

• Animal hearths

• Agrarian Societies

• Crop hearths

• Hunter and gatherer societies

Whether the product is consumed on or off the farm.

• determines if it's agribusiness.

• leads to the population density of the crop-producing region.

• is a major factor in creating the earth's agricultural regions.

• decides whether crops are grown or animals are raised.

Cultural and environmental factors

• influence religious and economic philosophies.

• result in varied weather and climate.

• influence the nutrients needed.

• result in farming differing around the world.

Hunters and gatherers typically:

• domesticate animals.

• live in large groups.

• cultivate plants from a variety of hearths.

• travel frequently.

20% of the earth's land is:

• sparsely occupied by 15 million nomads.

• dedicated to commercial farming.

• produces 90% of the earth's food.

• is undifferentiated highlands.

Large farm size, heavy machinery, low percent of farmers in the labor force describes:

• pastoral nomadism

• aquaculture

• commercial agriculture

• plantations

Logging, cattle ranching, and cash crops

• are replacing shifting cultivation.

• are being replaced by shifting cultivation.

• are all sustainable activities.

• are less harmful to the environment than shifting cultivation.