unit 6 study guide Flashcards
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What are intensive & extensive agriculture?
An agricultural practice known as “intensive farming” uses a lot of labor and resources compared to the amount of land it occupies. Extensive farming is a farming method that involves cultivating huge farms with comparatively smaller inputs, with machinery.
What are the rural settlement patterns? Do people live close or spread out in them?
Clustered: Farmers live in a cluster.
Dispersed: Farmers have their own land and live far from each other.
Linear: Farmers live in a line.
What crops and animals were raised in Mesopotamia?
They cultivated a wide variety of crops including beans, peas, lentils, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce and garlic, as well as fruit such as grapes, apples, melons and figs. They also milked sheep, goats and cows to make butter, and slaughtered them for meat.
Where did the Second Agricultural Revolution begins? What made it happen? How did it impact the
Industrial Revolution?
Started in the 1600’s in Great Britain, spread new tech for Agriculture to other countries and the industrial revolution “mechanized” Agriculture.
What is the Green Revolution known for?
It is known for the use fertilizers and chemicals in agriculture.
What is subsistence agriculture?
It is the type of farming for people to only use for themselves.
What are the 5 processes in the food commodity chain?
Inputs, production, processing, distribution, and consumption.
What is monocropping? What crops are commonly grown this way?
Is when you plant one crop all the time on a field, Example: CORN.
What happens in global food supply chains?
After the food items are produced on the farm, they move forward in the supply chain to handling and storage. From there, they make their way to processing and packaging, then distribution. Consumption is the final stage of the food supply chain.
What events can impact Global Food Distribution Patterns?
War, trade agreements expiring, and natural disasters.
- What makes up the Von Thunen Model of agricultural land use? What are the model’s major concepts?
How does the Bid-Rent theory connect to it?
4 rings of a state and the central city is in the middle. More closer you are to the middle the more are the housing prices/rent there is.
What are the pros and cons of GMOs?
Pros: more nutrients, pest and weather resistant.
Cons: harmful on animals and plants, unknown effects on humans, and more expensive than organic foods.
What problems are caused by the modern agricultural system?
Chemicals, and selfishness.
What sets apart organically grown crops?
They are grown with care and aren’t exposed to chemicals.
What are possible ways that people can have food insecurity?
No food available, and bad unhealthy food in ghettos or shady-towns.
