Unit 5 1-10

Question 1

Climate conditions

Answer 1

How weather affects agricultural practices and products

Question 2

Tropical climate

Answer 2

Hot humid climate that produces certain plants, such as cassava, banana, sugar cane, sweet potato, papaya, rice, and maize

Question 3

Mediterranean climate

Answer 3

Dry-summer climate that produces certain fruits, vegetables, and grains such as grapes, olives, figs, dates, tomatoes, zucchini, wheat, barley, and prevails along the shores of the Mediterranean, in parts of California and Oregon, in central Chile, at South Africa’s Cape and in parts of southwestern and southern Australia

Question 4

Intensive farming practices

Answer 4

Farming that uses significant amounts of labor/money

Question 5

Market gardening

Answer 5

Small scale food production (fruits/veggies) for sale at local markets

Question 6

Plantation agriculture

Answer 6

Cash crops (cotton, coffee, sugar, tea) grown on large estates, usually for exports; a legacy of colonization

Question 7

Mixed crop/livestock systems

Answer 7

Combination of cash crops and livestock to complement land and labor demands across the year

Question 8

Extensive farming practices

Answer 8

Farming that uses smaller amount of labor/money in relation to the land area

Question 9

Shifting cultivation (slash and burn)

Answer 9

• cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings using a natural rotation system
• the forest vegetation is cleared by cutting and burning
• the result is a layer of ash that contributes to the soils fertility
• farmers move to another parcel of land when the soils become infertile

Question 10

Nomadic herding (pastoral nomadism/transhumance)

Answer 10

Seasonal migration of domesticated livestock, usually fixed territory between highlands and lowlands