Vocab 9*3

Question 1

1st Agricultural revolution

Answer 1

When humans a long time ago went from and gatherers to settling down to farm.

Question 2

2nd Agricultural revolution

Answer 2

This has it’s roots in great britain. It came through the industrial revolution and led to the invention of agric products like cotton gin, seed drill, steel plow, grain elevators. They all increased agriculture

Question 3

3rd agricultural revolution / Green revolution

Answer 3

1970s-1980s this was when the invention of better farming methods began to spread. We saw the introducton to higher yeild seeds and better/increased use of chemical fertilizers. Science and biotechnology is key to this revolution.

Question 4

Food desert

Answer 4

An area with limmited options to affordable healthy food options especially fresh fruits and vegetables.

Question 5

Doublecropping

Answer 5

Practice of growing 2 or more crops on the same piece of land during one year.

Question 6

monocropping

Answer 6

When you grow the same crop on the same land every year. bad for the soil cause it depletes nutrients.

Question 7

Columbian Exchange

Answer 7

By christopher columbus: the spread of idea, people, diseases, crops, livestock from the old world to the new world and even through the atlantic ocean.

Question 8

Intensive agriculture

Answer 8

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

Question 9

extensive agriculture

Answer 9

more traditional it is whre they use less input and labour to a relatively large land and do get low output.

Question 10

Bid rent theory

Answer 10

The closer land is to the heart or central, the more competition for land there is and the more expensive it is.

Question 11

Von thunen model

Answer 11

It shows the influence of proximity to urban markets in the form of agriculture practiced in the land.

How close a piece a land is to the cities affect what farming is practiced there.