Quiz for year 11 Geography, Dairy farming unit.
Land divided into small blocks
Excellent road access
Very large farm holdings
High output per hectare
Alot of cheese products
Hilly/rocky
Lowland/plain
Central to urban development
Stoney
Sandy
Cold temperatures
Close proximity to the sea
Quad-bikes
Fertile soils
Poor acessibility
A model which is used to show how an activity operates, linking interacting phenomena to form a whole
The distribution of inter-related phenomena in space
How people view and understand their environment
A spatial unit defined by a particular phenomena
Water pollution
Effluent
Alluvial, free-draining soils
Calves
The Farmer
Ouputs which are lost from the system
Outputs which are used by the system as inputs
Reports written at each seasonal transition
The actions done by farmers to turn inputs into outputs
Their wet noses
Lower fat content, but higher output
Higher fat content, but lower output
Cheese and butter making
A change of paddock after each milking allows grass to recover before it is grazed again
Movable electric fences allow strict control of grazing
Hay is distributed to cows directly after milking
Calves are weaned off their mothers milk in portions
True
False
Native flora attempt to attract pollinators
Farmers stop fertilising their land
Excess fertiliser is washed into water-ways
Cows get parasitic infections
Use of races
Use of a feeding pad
Carp ponds
Riparian management
Manawatu and Lower Clutha
Lower Waitaki and Galatea
Canterbury and Hauraki Plains
Taieri and Southland
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