Food Production

Question 1

Farming

Answer 1

The cultivation of crops and rearing of animals for food and other products

It can be considered as a system

Question 2

Physical inputs of farming

Answer 2

Climate

Relief

Soil and drainage

Question 3

Human inputs of farming

Answer 3

Labour
capital
fertilizer
pesticides
seeds
energy
farm buildings

Question 4

Processes of farming

Answer 4

The farmer as a decision maker

Growing crops/ rearing animals

Question 5

Outputs of farming

Answer 5

Crops, animal products, animals, profit

Question 6

Arable farming

Answer 6

Growing crops

Question 7

Pastoral farming

Answer 7

Farming animals

Question 8

Mixed farming

Answer 8

Both growing crops and farming animals

Question 9

Monoculture farming

Answer 9

Growing only one type of crop

Question 10

Commercial farming

Answer 10

Farming in order to gain a profit

Question 11

Subsistence farming

Answer 11

Farming in order to produce food for family

Question 12

Extensive farming

Answer 12

Farm size is large in comparison with inputs of Labour or capital

Question 13

Intensive farming

Answer 13

Farms size is small in comparison with the number of people that work there or the capital

Question 14

Shifting/ nomadic

Answer 14

Farmers move from one are to another

Question 15

Sedentary

Answer 15

Farming and settlement is permanent

Question 16

Factors affecting farming

Answer 16

Relief

Soils

Rainfall

Temperature

Government aid

Question 17

How relief affects farming

Answer 17

The flatter the land, the larger and more efficient the farm

Question 18

How soils affect farming

Answer 18

The deeper and richer the soil, the more intensive the farming (arable) and the higher the outputs

Question 19

How rainfall affects farming

Answer 19

Wet areas produce good grass and are used for rearing animals while drier areas are arable (cereals)

Question 20

How temperature affects farming

Answer 20

Warmer climate has a longer growing season and produces cereals and fruit.

Colder climate concentrate more on pastoral farming

Question 21

How government aid affects farming

Answer 21

Grants for stock

Machinery and guaranteed fixed prices

Fertilizer, mechanization and better stock have increased yields and enabled more land to be farmed while the size of farms have increased and the number of people have decreased

Question 22

Why soils decline

Answer 22

Overgrazing

Over cropping

Overburning

Deforestation

Heavy machinery

Question 23

How soils can be conserved

Answer 23

Contour ploughing to stop water washing away soil

Terracing to stabilize hillsides

Strip cultivation and afforestation

Crop rotation to preserve soil fertility and structure

Reduce stock density to avoid overgrazing

Zero-tillage agriculture