Farming Types in MDCs and LDCs Quiz

Which type of agriculture, common in tropical regions, involves clearing land by cutting and burning vegetation, creating a field known as a swidden?

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Shifting Cultivation

• Plantation Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

The practice of seasonally migrating livestock between mountains in the summer and lowland pastures in the winter is known as:

• Double Cropping

• Crop Rotation

• Transhumance

• Monocropping

What type of farming, predominantly found in Asia, especially in warm and wet climates, often utilizes a flooded field known as a sawah for rice cultivation?

• Plantation Agriculture

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Commercial Gardening

• Mediterranean Agriculture

Which farming type in MDCs is characterized by the large-scale cultivation of a single crop, often wheat or corn, in drier climates, and is thus an example of monoculture?

• Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming

• Grain Farming

• Dairy Farming

• Commercial Gardening

In which agricultural system are domesticated animals herded in dry climates, and the people often rely on the animals' hair, skin, and milk rather than slaughtering them frequently?

• Shifting Cultivation

• Plantation Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

What type of agriculture in LDCs features large farms focused on one or two cash crops like cotton or coffee, often run for the benefit of MDCs?

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Plantation Agriculture

• Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming

Which MDC agricultural type focuses on crops suited to warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters, such as olives and grapes?

• Grain Farming

• Mediterranean Agriculture

• Livestock Ranching

• Dairy Farming

The production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers for sale in urban markets, often on a relatively small scale near these centers, describes:

• Plantation Agriculture

• Grain Farming

• Commercial Gardening

• Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming

Raising livestock, such as cattle and sheep, over large areas of land in semi-arid or arid regions is characteristic of:

• Dairy Farming

• Livestock Ranching

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Mediterranean Agriculture

Which farming system in MDCs integrates crop and livestock production on the same farm, where crops may provide feed for livestock and manure can fertilize the crops?

• Commercial Gardening

• Plantation Agriculture

• Dairy Farming

• Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming