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Agriculture Flashcards

1
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Define agriculture

A

The intentional growing, planting, raising, of plants and animals for feed, food, fiber(cotton/wool), fuel

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2
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How many agricultural revolutions are there

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3

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3
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Domestication of plants and animals

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1st agricultural revolution

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4
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Where are the hearths of the 1st agricultural revolution

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Fertile Crescent

  • huang he river
  • indus river valley
  • ethiopian highlands
  • andes mountains
  • meso america
  • SE Asia
  • W Africa
  • Nile River Valley
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5
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What are the 5 big helpful domesticated animals

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  1. Horses
  2. Cattle
  3. Pigs
  4. Sheep
  5. Goats
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6
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What is the agricultural density

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of farmers divided by total land

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7
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1650-1900s (mechanization)

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2nd agricultural revolution

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8
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Describe the 2nd agricultural revolution

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  • crop rotation (nitrogen cycle)
  • selective breeding
  • natural fertilizers
  • seed drill
  • plows tractors threshers reapers
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9
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Primary economic activity

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Taking things out of the ground

- farming, mining, fishing, foresting, hunting and gathering

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10
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Secondary economic activity

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Manufacturing

  • toys
  • ships
  • processed foods
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11
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Tertiary economic activity

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Provide service to a product

  • lawyers
  • doctors
  • teachers
  • salespeople
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12
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Quaternary economic activity

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Subset of tertiary

-info, money, exchange

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13
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Quinary economic activity

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Subset of tertiary

-research

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14
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Tertiary quaternary and quinary are all part of ____

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Core

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15
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3rd agricultural revolution

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Genetics/GMOs

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16
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Green revolution

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Aka 3rd agricultural revolution

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17
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What was the goal of the 3rd agricultural revolution

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Higher yields

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18
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1940s or 1960s through current day

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3rd agricultural revolution

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19
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During the 3rd agricultural revolution how did they obtain higher yields?

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  • extend ecumene
  • resistant to pesticides
  • grow faster IR36(rice that grows in 110 days)
  • plants w improved nutrition
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20
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Farming to survive

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Substinence farming

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21
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Cash crops

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Commercial farming

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22
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Types of Substinence farming

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Mixed farming
Nomadism
Transhumance
Shifting cultivation(slash and burn)

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23
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Types of commercial farming

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Monoculture 
Double cropping
Triple cropping
Agribusiness 
Plantation agriculture
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24
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Monoculture

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Single crop

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25
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Double crop

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2 crops in same field

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26
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Triple cropping

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3 crops same field

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27
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Types of planned farme

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Collectives

Communes

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28
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Usually owned and run by MDCs

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Plantation agriculture

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29
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Types of luxury crops

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Sugar
Cocao
Coffee
Tea

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30
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Other than luxury crops, types of plantation agriculture

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Bananas
Pineapples
Palm oil
Rubber

31
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State owned farms

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Collectives (planned farming)

32
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Community farming

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Communes( planned farms)

33
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3 factors that influence what grows where

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  1. Climate
  2. Culture
  3. Economics
34
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Capital intensive + extensive land use

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MDC wheat and corn farms

35
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Capital intensive + intensive land use

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Livestock factory farming

36
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Labor intensive and extensive land use

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Nomadic farming, free range cattle

37
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Labor intensive and intensive land use

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Tea plantations
Fruit farms
Rice

38
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Zones of Von Thünen

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Zone 1 - dairy, market gardening(farmers market)
Zone 2- forests(no longer exists)
Zone 3- field crops (grains/corn/etc)
Zone4 - livestock farming

39
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Advantages of organic farming

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  • less pollution
  • Fewer abused animals
  • Less carcinogenic residue on vegetables
  • in food poor nations the yield gap disappears
  • according to Halbergs tests doesn’t dramatically raise food prices
  • external costs 1/3 of conventional farming
  • better for the soil
  • less nitrogen run off
40
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Disadvantages of organic farming

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  • global switch could take decades

- more difficult than just using chemicals (have to manage a whole ecosystem)

41
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Primary and secondary economic activities are both

A

LDCs
Periphery
Semi periphery

42
Q

What three elements are needed for hunter gatherer societies to progress agriculture

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  1. Fire
  2. Tools
  3. Able to alter environment
43
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Plants were domesticated __________ years ago

A

14,000

44
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Animals were domesticated________ years ago

A

8,000

45
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Primary growing region of wheat

A

Europe

46
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Primary growing region of rice

A

Asia

47
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Primary growing region of sorghum

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Africa

48
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Primary growing region of potatoes

A

USA

49
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What’s the impact of animals domestication

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  • erased work burden for early farmers
  • animal waste fertilized crops
  • animals pulled plows
50
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Advantages and disadvantages of shifting cultivation

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Disadvantage: only worms in areas w low pop density a tropical area and LDC

Advantage: lets land sit and rest

51
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Disadvantage of slash and burn

A

Deforestation

52
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Advantages of slash and burn

A

Replenishes soil in natural way

53
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Agribusiness

A

Having food poor nations grow luxury crops on plantation agriculture

54
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Principles behind Von Thünens model of agriculture

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  • nearest to town, commodities that are perishable command higher prices
  • greater the distance to the market, the higher the transport costs that had to be added to cost of producing a crop or commodity
55
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Negative impacts of green revolution

A 
Reduced genetic diversity 
Soil contamination 
Rural impoverishment 
Soil erosion
Water shortages
56
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IR36

A

Hybrid rice that grows in 110 days and is pest resistant

57
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IR8

A

Hybrid rice that has a stronger stem w bigger head of grain

58
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Rectangular survey systems

A

Checkerboards across agricultural fields

59
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Township and range system

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Designed to facilitate movement of non natives evenly across farmlands of US Interior the system imposed a rigid grid like pattern on the land

60
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Longlot survey system

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Divided land into narrow parcels stretching from rivers roads or canals

61
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Primogeniture

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Germanic system in which all land passes to eldest son

62
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Various village patterns

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  1. Dispersed settlement - individual farm houses lying far apart
  2. Nucleated settlement when houses are grouped together in tiny clusters
63
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Large areas of humid cold climate w no dry season

A

Dairy

64
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Large areas of arid climate

A

Livestock ranching

65
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Large areas of humid equatorial climates

A

Plantations

66
Q

Large areas of humid temps w no dry season

A

Grains
Corn
Soy

67
Q

Coca source of cocaine is grown in

A

Columbia
Peru
Bolivia

68
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Heroin and opium grown in

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SE AND SW Asia

69
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Over 90% of illegal opium production worldwide comes from

A

Afghanistan and myanmar

70
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How have the rural landscape and environment been changed by agribusiness?

A
  • overfishing
  • land clearing
  • deforestation
  • soil erosion
  • desertification
  • growth of organic farming
71
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3 places where dairy farming occurs

A

Midwest USA
North East Coast USA
NW Europe

72
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3 places where Mediterranean agriculture occurs

A

California
North Africa
Europe near france and spain

73
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3 places where livestock ranching occur

A

N America
Mexico
S America

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