WorksheetsKey Issues 10.2 Part 2: Subsistence Agriculture
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?
a)
Intensive subsistence
b)
Hunting and gathering
c)
Pastoral nomadism
d)
Plantation
2.
Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following?
a)
equipment
b)
labor
c)
land
d)
funds
3.
Which of the following is a typical practice in growing rice in Asia?
a)
Flooding the plowed fields with water
b)
Growing seedlings in a dry nursery
c)
Transplanting seedlings into the flooded field
d)
all of the above
4.
The most important reason why most people in North China grow crops other than wet rice is:
a)
cultural preference.
b)
tradition.
c)
climate.
d)
soil and topography.
5.
To increase crop yield, rice farmers in China commonly practice:
a)
double cropping.
b)
transhumance.
c)
threshing.
d)
shifting cultivation.
6.
Intensive subsistence agriculture involves large amounts of effort used to produce maximum yield from a given plot of land.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
Which is not a form of subsistence agriculture?
a)
Mediterranean
b)
Shifting cultivation
c)
Pastoral nomadism
d)
intensive wet rice
8.
Why type of agriculture is found primarily is LDCs?
a)
Truck farming
b)
Commercial gardening and fruit farming
c)
Livestock ranching
d)
Plantation
9.
The largest proportion of farmers in Asia practice:
a)
hunting and gathering.
b)
intensive subsistence agriculture.
c)
pastoral nomadism.
d)
plantation agriculture.
10.
What farming practice does the image show?
a)
shifting cultivation
b)
intertillage
c)
market gardening
d)
double cropping
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