WorksheetsAPHuG Unit 5
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The first time people began to grow crops intentionally was in __________
Southeast Asia
Southwest Asia
Northern Africa
Central Asia
The Third Agricultural Revolution is also known as _____________
The Crop Revolution
The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
All of the following crops were domesticated in Southwest Asia except:
Lentils
Wheat
Maize
Olives
Overgrazing and overfarming pasture areas has contributed to which problem?
Desertification
Soil loss
Acid rain
Famine
According to the von Thuenen model, which activity is likely to be found furthest from population centers?
Grain farming
Livestock ranching
Market gardening
Forestry
According to the von Thuenen model, which of these activities is most likely to be found closest to markets/population centers?
Forestry
Livestock ranching
Grain farming
Market gardening
Which form of commercial agriculture is most often found in the developing world?
Agribusiness
Market gardening
Grain farming
Plantation agriculture
The Green/Third Agricultural Revolution refers to
the invention of agriculture
the application of new machines and industrialization to agriculture
the application of science and new chemicals to agriculture (GMOs, fertilizers, pesticides)
the diffusion of agriculture after the Spanish made contact with the Americas
Which words correctly complete the following trend: "In the US the size of farms has ______ while the number of farmers has _______."
increased; increased
decreased; decreased
increased; decreased
decreased; increased
A negative impact of industrial/commercial agriculture is
a decrease in amount of crops produced
an increase in amount of crops produced
increased water and air pollution
decrease in the amount of machinery used
A positive impact of industrial/commercial agriculture is
a decrease in amount of crops produced
an increase in amount of crops produced
increased water and air pollution
decrease in the amount of machinery used
public support (usually from governments) to farmers to ensure that consumers have a dependable, low-cost supply of food
Enclosure Acts
Micro finance
Subsidies
Agriloans
agricultural practices that preserve and enhance environmental quality
nonrenewable
sustainable
hybridization
GMO
a type of of shifting cultivation where farmers purposely burn leftover vegetation and debris to create a natural fertilizer to try and replenish soil nutrients
double cropping
slash and burn
crop rotation
transhumance
obtaining two harvests per year from one field, usually found in places that have warm winters (China and Taiwan)
shifting cultivation
crop rotation
double cropping
share cropping
subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals
plantation
intensive subsistence
pastoral nomadism
horticulture
Which of the following is not commercial farming?
Pastoral nomadism
Agribusiness
Mediterranean
Livestock and Cattle Ranching
The Green Revolution has had the least impact on people who live in
Southeast Asia
China
Sub-Saharan Africa
India
The rectangular land division scheme in the US adopted after the American Revolution is called
Franklin's system
township-and-range system
metes and bounds system
long-lot system
Found along roads and rivers
clustered settlement pattern
dispersed settlement pattern
linear settlement pattern
Establishing property lines by using distances and physical boundaries (rivers, streams, mountains, etc.)
long lot
metes and bounds
township and range
