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Agriculture Flashcards

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Define agriculture

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

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How many agricultural revolutions are there

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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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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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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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What is the agricultural density

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of farmers divided by total land

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1650-1900s (mechanization)

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2nd agricultural revolution

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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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Secondary economic activity

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Manufacturing

  • toys
  • ships
  • processed foods
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Tertiary economic activity

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Provide service to a product

  • lawyers
  • doctors
  • teachers
  • salespeople
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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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Monoculture

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Single crop

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Double crop
2 crops in same field
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Triple cropping
3 crops same field
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Types of planned farme
Collectives | Communes
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Usually owned and run by MDCs
Plantation agriculture
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Types of luxury crops
Sugar Cocao Coffee Tea
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Other than luxury crops, types of plantation agriculture
Bananas Pineapples Palm oil Rubber
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State owned farms
Collectives (planned farming)
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Community farming
Communes( planned farms)
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3 factors that influence what grows where
1. Climate 2. Culture 3. Economics
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Capital intensive + extensive land use
MDC wheat and corn farms
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Capital intensive + intensive land use
Livestock factory farming
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Labor intensive and extensive land use
Nomadic farming, free range cattle
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Labor intensive and intensive land use
Tea plantations Fruit farms Rice
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Zones of Von Thünen
Zone 1 - dairy, market gardening(farmers market) Zone 2- forests(no longer exists) Zone 3- field crops (grains/corn/etc) Zone4 - livestock farming
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Advantages of organic farming
- 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
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Disadvantages of organic farming
- global switch could take decades | - more difficult than just using chemicals (have to manage a whole ecosystem)
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Primary and secondary economic activities are both
LDCs Periphery Semi periphery
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What three elements are needed for hunter gatherer societies to progress agriculture
1. Fire 2. Tools 3. Able to alter environment
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Plants were domesticated __________ years ago
14,000
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Animals were domesticated________ years ago
8,000
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Primary growing region of wheat
Europe
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Primary growing region of rice
Asia
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Primary growing region of sorghum
Africa
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Primary growing region of potatoes
USA
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What's the impact of animals domestication
- erased work burden for early farmers - animal waste fertilized crops - animals pulled plows
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Advantages and disadvantages of shifting cultivation
Disadvantage: only worms in areas w low pop density a tropical area and LDC Advantage: lets land sit and rest
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Disadvantage of slash and burn
Deforestation
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Advantages of slash and burn
Replenishes soil in natural way
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Agribusiness
Having food poor nations grow luxury crops on plantation agriculture
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Principles behind Von Thünens model of agriculture
- 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
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Negative impacts of green revolution
``` Reduced genetic diversity Soil contamination Rural impoverishment Soil erosion Water shortages ```
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IR36
Hybrid rice that grows in 110 days and is pest resistant
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IR8
Hybrid rice that has a stronger stem w bigger head of grain
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Rectangular survey systems
Checkerboards across agricultural fields
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Township and range system
Designed to facilitate movement of non natives evenly across farmlands of US Interior the system imposed a rigid grid like pattern on the land
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Longlot survey system
Divided land into narrow parcels stretching from rivers roads or canals
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Primogeniture
Germanic system in which all land passes to eldest son
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Various village patterns
1. Dispersed settlement - individual farm houses lying far apart 2. Nucleated settlement when houses are grouped together in tiny clusters
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Large areas of humid cold climate w no dry season
Dairy
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Large areas of arid climate
Livestock ranching
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Large areas of humid equatorial climates
Plantations
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Large areas of humid temps w no dry season
Grains Corn Soy
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Coca source of cocaine is grown in
Columbia Peru Bolivia
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Heroin and opium grown in
SE AND SW Asia
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Over 90% of illegal opium production worldwide comes from
Afghanistan and myanmar
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How have the rural landscape and environment been changed by agribusiness?
- overfishing - land clearing - deforestation - soil erosion - desertification - growth of organic farming
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3 places where dairy farming occurs
Midwest USA North East Coast USA NW Europe
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3 places where Mediterranean agriculture occurs
California North Africa Europe near france and spain
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3 places where livestock ranching occur
N America Mexico S America

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