unit 5.1-5.12

Which of the following is the best example of extensive land use in agriculture?

• a cattle field

• a greenhouse

• an egg production facility

• a sheep ranch

• a backyard garden

Which of the following terms identifies the type of land survey system shown in the satellite image?

• multiple nuclei

• suburban subdivision

• long lots

• metes and bounds

• township and range

In reading the landscape of the image, a geographer will most likely describe the land-survey pattern….. : following locations?

• a rural agricultural region in the united states

• an exurb of paris

• a costal region in china

• an agricultural region of eastern canada

Technologies invented during which of the following periods explain how farmland was divided and……. c image?

• Columbian Exchange, when the use of Old World farm animals such as cows and horses u

• First Agricultural Revolution, when the animal-powered plow and domesticated plants were

• C

  Second Agricultural Revolution, when land-surveying technology and mechanical plows wer

• Modern era, when local farmers used computers and data analysis.

Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for

• Plantation farming

• hunting and gathering

• Subsistence agriculture

• sedentary cultivation

Which of the following developments is predicted by the von Thünen model of land use around cities?

• large scale growing of flowers and vegetables in the Netherlands

• large scale rubber production

• large scale commercial fishing in japan

• extensive cattle ranching in northern France

Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following in modern agriculture?

• The development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas

• The construction of new irrigation systems and a reduction in the use of fertilizers

• c

  An increase in the circulation of investment capital to help the poorest farmers

• The loss of prime agricultural land and smaller yields from grain crops

Why is the traditional classification of agriculture as a primary economic activity a problem when considering the geography of agriculture?

• Modern farmers are engaged in production, research, marketing, and some manufacturing of their products.

• Agricultural employment is such a small fraction of the labor force in the industrialized countries that agriculture can no longer be thought of as a primary economic activity.

• Unlike mining, forestry, and other primary activities, agriculture has not been affected by industrialization.

• D

  Traditional patterns of farming are disappearing.

A set of economic and political relationships that organizes food production from the development of seed to marketing the products is known as

• food processing

• mechanical farming

• mixed crop and livestock farm

• agribusiness

Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and the Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their

• tropical climate

• heavy industrilzation

• in-migration from neighboring countries

• intensive agriculture based on irrigation