AP Human Geography Agriculture (Rubenstein)

What type of agriculture is practiced to feed the farmer and the farmer's family?

• Commercial

• Subsistence

• Seed

• Vegetative Planting

Specifically, how do farmers clear the land for shifting cultivation?

• Using machines to cut the trees down

• Mowing the grass

• Cutting the grass

• Slashing the vegetation and burning the debris

What is the main reason that grazing is in the outermost ring of the von Thunen model?

• Its heavy weight (hard to transport far)

• Fast perishable time

• Needs lots of space

Farmers in MDCs grow (more/less) food than needed while farmers in LDCs grow (more/less) food than needed.  (Separate the two terms with a semicolon (;) and a space)

Hunters and gatherers lived in small groups.

• True

• False

A region with a humid low-latitude climate would have (high/low) temperatures with (abundant/scarce) rainfall.  (Separate the two terms with a semicolon (;) and a space)

_______________ is the process of deteriorating the land to a desertlike condition.

Farmers in MDCs use what for power?  (Check all that apply)

• Human

• Animal

• Machinery

• Hand tools

What is the main reason that logging is in the second ring of the von Thunen model?

• Its heavy weight (hard to transport far)

• Fast perishable time

• Needs lots of space

There are still hunters and gatherers in the world today.

• True

• False

Farmers in MDCs grow (one/many) crop(s) over a wide area.  Farmers in LDCs grow (one/many) crop(s) over a wide area.  (Separate the two terms with a semicolon (;) and a space)

In mixed crop and livestock farming, which crop is grown to be sold to people as oil but mostly to be fed to animals?

The connection between farming and food-production jobs (such as processing, packaging, storing, distributing, retailing, tractor manufacturing, fertilizer production, and seed distribution) is called __________________________.

Whittlesey sorted out agricultural practices based upon ________________, because it determined what kind of crop can be grown and whether or not animals are raised.

The primary differences between agriculture practices in the world are between those of what two types of regions/countries?

• Africa and Asia

• Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• Land and oceans

• MDCs and LDCs

What is the land cleared by slash-and-burn agriculture called?

What is the most important crop of intensive subsistence farming with wet rice NOT dominant?

What grass do grain farmers grow the most?

• Corn

• Oats

• Wheat

• Barley

What is the main reason that dairy farms are in the first ring of the von Thunen model?

• Its heavy weight (hard to transport far)

• Fast perishable time

• Needs lots of space

Wet rice is first planted on (dry/wet) land and then transferred to (dry/wet) land to promote growth.  (Separate the two terms with a semicolon (;) and a space)

What is the area surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied called?

The ______________  ________________ is the invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970s and 1980s.

The process of obtaining two harvests per year from the same field is called ____________________.

What animal is raised in ranching in the United States?

What is the present-day machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans in one operation called?

When was seed agriculture starting to become widely practiced in the Western Hemisphere?

• When agriculture diffused from the hearth in Mexico

• When agriculture diffused from the hearth in South America

• When the Europeans brought agriculture with them from Europe

• When the hearth of seed agriculture rose up in the United States

How were humans surviving before the agricultural revolution? (Check all that apply)

• Growing crops

• Hunting animals

• Planting seeds

• Raising animals

• Gathering crops

Back then, ranching was (over a wide area/in a fixed location).  Now, ranching is (over a wide area/in a fixed location).  (Separate the two terms with a semicolon (;) and a space)

_____________ agriculture is the practice that preserves and enhances environmental quality.

The __________ hunted game or fished and the ______________ collected berries, nuts, and roots.  (Options- men, women) Write the right answers in the correct order separated by a semicolon (;).

What did people in Southeast Asia do before they started practicing vegetative planting?

The Kayapo people of the Amazon plant their crops in what shape?

• Rectangle

• Square

• Circle

• Oval

• Triangle

Which country is the largest commercial producer of grain?

• United States

• Canada

• Australia

• China

• India

There are ____________ percentages of the populations in MDCs that work directly with farming and _____________ percentages of the population of LDCs that work directly with farming.  (Place a semicolon (;) and a space between the two terms)  (Options-high/low)

The most distinctive characteristic of fixed crop and livestock farming is that it integrates ________________________.

• Different kinds of crops

• Crops and livestock

• Different kinds of livestock

• Crop rotation

What are four strategies to increase food supply?

1. (Increase/Decrease) the amount of land devoted to agriculture.
2. (Increase/Decrease) the productivity of land used for agriculture.
3. Identify new ________ sources.
4. (Increase/Decrease) exports from other countries.

(Separate each term with one before/after it with a semicolon (;) and a space)

What does "cultivate" mean?

• To grow

• To care for

• To make money

• To harvest

• To raise animals

In what kind of a region is shifting cultivation practiced?

• Humid Low-Latitude

• Dry

• Warm Mid-Latitude

• Cold Mid-Latitude

• Polar

• Undifferentiated Highlands

On dairy farms, what is grown by farmers and sold to the market?  (Check all that apply)

• Milk

• Butter

• Cheese

• Cows

What are the two most important cash crops grown in regions that practice Mediterranean agriculture?  (Separate the two terms with a semicolon (;) and a space)

How many agricultural regions did Whittlesey identify, excluding the region where agriculture was nonexistent?  (As a number or word)

Who developed the two types of cultivation? You can either have:

1. First and last name OR
2. The last name only

Who made the most widely used map that shows regional distribution of subsistence and commercial agriculture?  (First and last name OR last name only)

Farmers in LDCs use what for power?  (Check all that apply)

• Human

• Animal

• Machinery

• Hand tools

In which two European countries is ranching common?  (Check two)

• France

• Portugal

• Spain

• Germany

• Russia

____________  _____________ is the system of planting crops on ridge tops.

Farmers in MDCs grow crops and raise animals to sell directly to ____________________.  (Check all that apply)

• Consumers

• Food-processing companies

• Markets

• Stores

Commercial gardening and fruit farming, also known as truck farming, produce what crops for consumers?  (Check all that apply)

• Cereal Grains

• Fruits

• Vegetables

• Flowers

• Rice