Study deck 2 for unit 5 geography

Question 1

Channeling of water to fields.

Answer 1

Irrigation

Question 2

Other occupations than farming developed, since fewer people were needed to produce food. Some early specialized jobs include priests, traders, and builders.

Answer 2

Job Specialization

Question 3

a method of farming that uses large amounts of labor and investment to increase the yield of the land.

Answer 3

Labor intensive Agriculture

Question 4

General but logical attempt to explain how an economic activity is related to the landscape where goods are produced.

Answer 4

Location Theory

Question 5

Divides land into narrow parcels that extend from rivers, roads, or canals.

Answer 5

Long-lot Survey System

Question 6

This type of ag. Exists not only in the lands that border the Med Sea, but also Cali, Central Chile, the SW South Africa, and SW Australia. They share similar physical environment: they border seas, and are on the west coasts of continents, with moisture provided by prevailing sea winds and moderate winter temp.

Answer 6

Mediterranean Agriculture

Question 7

Developed most effectively by the British and the Dutch, with private companies under charter from the gov. Carrying out the trade. Main goal of mercantilism was to benefit the mother country by trading goods to accumulate precious metals to enrich the country.

Answer 7

Mercantilism

Question 8

Approach where natural features are used to mark irregular parcels of land.

Answer 8

Metes and Bounds

Question 9

Dairy farms must be closer to their market than other products because milk spoils quickly. So a ring of milk production is formed.

Answer 9

Milkshed

Question 10

This is the most common form of commercial agriculture in the US west of the App. Mountains and in much of Europe from France to Russia. Implies, farmers grow crops and raise livestock on the same land spread with most of the crops fed to animals rather than to people. Animal products such as beef, milk, and eggs. Mixed Crop and livestock farming permits farmers to distribute the workload more evenly through the year.

Answer 10

Mixed Crop and Livestock farming

Question 11

Ability to settle was based almost entirely on successful cultivation of crops and domestication of animals. These drastic changes in human life is this. Almost certainly happened independently in different places over a large span of time.

Answer 11

Neolithic Revolution

Question 12

Practice of moving frequently from one place to another.

Answer 12

Nomadism

Question 13

Villages located quite _ together with relatively small surrounding fields.

Answer 13

Nucleated Settlement Pattern

Question 14

Crops are grown without fertilizers and pesticides, ensuring that the consumer will not suffer health effects from them.

Answer 14

Organic Agriculture

Question 15

Prairie land in Argentina

Answer 15

Pampas

Question 16

Herding of domesticated animals (subsistence), adapted to dry climates, where planting crops is impossible. Only about 15 million people are pastoral nomads, but they sparsely occupy about 20 percent of earth’s land area. Depend primarily on animals not crops to survive. Animals provide milk skins, hair for clothing/tents, Like other subsistence farmers though pastoral nomads consume mostly grain rather than meat. Grains eaten are grown by women.

Answer 16

Pastoral Nomadism

Question 17

inheritance/rule passed down thru the father’s side to the eldest son

Answer 17

Patriarchal System

Question 18

large farm that specializes in one or two crops, found in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Answer 18

Plantation Farming

Question 19

Countries where most people are no longer employed in industry.

Answer 19

Post-Industrial Societies

Question 20

Part of the economy that draws raw materials into manufactured goods. Largest low-income pre-industrial nations.

Answer 20

Primary Sector