AGRICULTURAL

Question 1

HUNTING, GATHERING, AND FISHING

Answer 1

• First Tools Clubs
• Bone and Stone Developed Spears
• Trapped Fish
• Cyclical Movements

Question 2

FIRST AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

Answer 2

10,000 Years Ago —> Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Planting Crops and Domesticating Animals

Note: Enabled People to Settle Down

Question 3

NEW WORLD’S GREAT CONTRIBUTION

Answer 3

Wheat, Rice, Barley, Oats, Coffee, Sugar Cane, Citrus Fruits, Melons, Kentucky Bluegrass

Question 4

ANIMAL DOMESTICATION

Answer 4

advantages include their use as beasts of burden, as a source of meat, and as providers of milk

Question 5

SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE

Answer 5

growing only enough food to survive

Note: Land Often Communally Owned

Question 6

SHIFTING CULTIVATION

Answer 6

the process of clearing and burning a plot, farming it for a few years, then moving on and allowing it to regenerate

Note: Also Called “Swidden” or “Slash-and-Burn” Agriculture

Question 7

SECOND AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

Answer 7

18th to 20th Century —> Population and Agricultural Yields Increased

surpluses fed thousands of people working in factories over fields

Question 8

GREAT BRITAIN’S ENCLOSURE ACT

Answer 8

encouraged field consolidation into large single-owner holdings

Question 9

SEED DRILL

Answer 9

a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while dragged by a tractor

Question 10

MECHANIZATION

Answer 10

• Mechanical Reaper Increased Yields by 10 Times
• Advances in Breeding Livestock
• Railroads Moved Crops
• Introduction of Milking Machines

Question 11

THIRD AGRICULTURAL (GREEN) REVOLUTION

Answer 11

20th Century —> Genetically Modifying Seeds and Changing Land-Use Techniques Increase Yields

used biotechnology to create disease-resistant, fast-growing, high-yield seeds, as well as fertilizers and pesticides

Question 12

MONOCROPPING

Answer 12

makes farms vulnerable to changes in climate or the infestation of pests