Unit 5 - 2

Question 1

Plants again, harvesting crop two or three times per year on the same piece of land

Answer 1

Double cropping

Question 2

When farmers grow two or more crop simultaneously on the same field

Answer 2

Intercropping

Question 3

Only one crop is grown or one type of animal is raised per season on a piece of land

Answer 3

Monoculture

Question 4

Confined spaces in which cattle and hogs have limited movement

Answer 4

Feedlots

Question 5

Corporations are operating in many countries

Answer 5

Transnational corporation

Question 6

Process used by corporations together resources, transform them into goods, and then transport them to consumers

Answer 6

Commodity chain

Question 7

An increase in efficiency to lower the per unit production cost resulting in greater profits. For example, consider green farmer who increases the size of his or her farm by purchasing an additional quarter section are using the existing machinery on the floor. More fission is a farmer can successfully plan harvest the additional acreage without the purchase of a new equipment.

Answer 7

Economics of scale

Question 8

A key component an economic geography deals with white people choose certain locations for various types of economic activity, factory stores, restaurants, or agriculture

Answer 8

Location theory

Question 9

an economy where money that each person made is documented and recorded and given a tax determined by the amount of money one person made

Answer 9

Free market economy

Question 10

Can be used to determine the starting position for each land use relative to the market as well as where each land used would end

Answer 10

Bid rent curve

Question 11

Naturally occurring beneficial conditions that would prompt farmers to plant crops differently from those predicted by von thunen’s model

Answer 11

Comparative advantage

Question 12

All the steps required to get a product or service to customers

Answer 12

supply chains

Question 13

Not essential to human survival, but half high profit margin examples are cocoa beans, tobacco

Answer 13

Luxury crops

Question 14

Do use of economic, political, and social pressures to control farm former colonies. For example, well growing and processing coffee beans expensive the profit margin and selling brewed coffee drinks is very high most of the revenue generated from coffee remains of the transnational companies based in the wealthy country, while very little revenue, finds the way back to the coffee growers in developing countries.

Answer 14

Neocolonialism

Question 15

Public financial support to farmers to safeguard food production

Answer 15

Subsidies

Question 16

Things made to benefit a country. Example Broad Bridges tunnel, sports, electrical grid sewers telecommunications.

Answer 16

Infrastructure

Question 17

Uses expensive machinery, and other inputs

Answer 17

Capital intensive

Question 18

Large firms produce very large quantities of vegetables and fruits, and often rely on many low paid migrant, workers, attend and harvest crops

Answer 18

Labor-intensive

Question 19

Capital intensive livestock operation in which many animals are kept in close quarters and bred and fed in a controlled environment

Answer 19

Factory farming

Question 20

Type of intensive farming. Rather than raising typical for a man was in close quarters with a controlled environment fish, shellfish, or water. Plants are raising netted areas in the sea tanks are other bodies of water.

Answer 20

Aquaculture

Question 21

Farms that run as corporations

Answer 21

Agribusiness

Question 22

The ownership of other businesses involved in the steps of producing a particular good

Answer 22

Vertical integration

Question 23

And transportation networks that keep food cold throughout a trip

Answer 23

Cool chains

Question 24

Are economic model that suggested a pattern for the types of products at farmers would produce a different position relative to the market, where they sold their goods

Answer 24

Von Thunen model

Question 25

Produces perishable items such as tomatoes and strawberries, and includes dairy farming

Answer 25

Von Thunen zone one

Question 26

Includes forests, such as wood and building material

Answer 26

Von thunen zone 2

Question 27

Includes crops, such as wheat and corn, and non-perishable vegetables

Answer 27

Von Thunen zone three

Question 28

Includes livestock and cattle

Answer 28

Von Thunen zone four

Question 29

Farming was an economic activity farmers were in business to make a profit. There was one market were farmers so their products there was one transportation system. The market was situated in the center of an isotropic plain

Answer 29

Von Thunen model assumptions

Question 30

Government policies can interfere with a free market economy, and affect farmers decisions simply to provide enough food for his or family not profit is a goal for many farmers, modern agriculture systems have met multiple markets, planes trains and trucks have changed distance considerations for farmers differences in land formation, soil fertility and climate exist in agriculture reasons, making isotropic planes in common

Answer 30

Five criticisms of Von thunen model

Question 31

Connections among regions of the world

Answer 31

Interdependence

Question 32

Most of the revenue done from the farming, goes to the transnational corporations, instead of going to the workers

Answer 32

Ways rich countries exploit, poor

Question 33

Mini consumers have become more aware of the disparity between a higher incomes of those in developed countries, manage trade in the low incomes of producers in developing countries

Answer 33

Fair trade

Question 34

Direct trade that will eliminate the intermediary transactions directly between the producer in the importer insure more money to the producer, fair price paid promptly to the farmers by importers. Also, the producer must pay workers a fair price. Decent conditions are provided for the labor, such as fair and safe, working environment, and no use of child or forced labor. Environmental sustainability that required farmers to use environmentally safe practices and produce prohibited genetically modified organisms. Respect for local culture through shared agricultural techniques with farmers.

Answer 34

Fair trade movement principles

Question 35

Focused on rapid, economic growth, improve living conditions, and raise income for Ghanaians

Answer 35

Ghana vision, 2020

Question 36

There is usually a distance decay between proximity to the urban market in the value of the land. Meaning of the closer the land is to an urban center the more valuable it is.

Answer 36

Bid rent theory