5.1 Intro To Agriculture

Question 1

Intensive agriculture

Answer 1

Crop cultivation that requires lots of labor and hard work. Adapting with the environment

Question 2

Substinence agriculture

Answer 2

Preparing consumption for your village and or family

Question 3

Commercial agriculture

Answer 3

Preparing food or products for makerkets

Question 4

Market gardening

Answer 4

Buying one to more acres of plat and growing a mixture of crops in order to sell locally

Question 5

Truck farming

Answer 5

Essentially market gardening but bigger and less diversity

Question 6

Plantation

Answer 6

Tropical areas that specialize in one crop like bananas or pineapples that sell to large global markets

Question 7

Mixed crop/livestock agriculture

Answer 7

Colder areas that focus on cereal grains (wheat) and rot crops

Question 8

Cash crop

Answer 8

Raised to make profit rather than feed the farm family like tobacco and coffee

Question 9

Paddy rice farming

Answer 9

Wet rice cultivation that includes terraced lands of wet floods in order to grow rice in large amounts

Question 10

Grain farming

Answer 10

Mechanized commercial farming that specializes in the production of cereal grains

Question 11

Livestock fattening

Answer 11

Uses feedlots to fatten livestock in order to butcher them

Question 12

Dairying

Answer 12

Uses feedlots but instead it’s butchering, uses dairy products like cheese and milk

Question 13

Extensive agriculture

Answer 13

Less work and less money

Question 14

Shifting cultivation

Answer 14

Once a farmer gets less productive on his old plot of land he will buy a plot of land that has been slashed and burned

Question 15

Splash and burn

Answer 15

When forests aren’t cut down and the ashes are used for farming plots

Question 16

Nomadic herding

Answer 16

Extensive that follows the seasonal movements of rain fall or

Mountains in summer
Plains in winter

Question 17

Livestock farming

Answer 17

Extensive that herds livestock while moving to sell as meat or hides but has a home

Question 18

List the climate types

Answer 18

Tropical
Dry
Moderate
Continental

Question 19

Elements of physical geography

Answer 19

Soil
Climate
Topography

Question 20

Extensive agricultural practices

Answer 20

Nomadic herding
Livestock ranching
Shifting cultivation

Question 21

Intensive agricultural practices

Answer 21

Market gardening
Patty rice farming
Plantations
Truck farming
Mixed crop/livestock
Grain farming
Livestock flattening
Dairy farming