Transcript Unit Five Jeopardy Game

Unit Five Review:
Agriculture
Origins of
Agriculture
Commercial
vs.
Subsistence
Agriculture in
LDCs
Agriculture
Economics
Agriculture in
MDCs
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Origins of Agriculture – 100
Question:
What is the deliberate modification of Earth’s
surface through cultivation of plants and rearing
of animals to obtain sustenance or economic
gain?
Answer:
Agriculture
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Origins of Agriculture – 200
Question:
How did all humans probably obtain the food they
needed for survival before the invention of
agriculture?
Answer:
Hunting and Gathering
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Origins of Agriculture – 300
Question:
Which type of cultivation is practiced by most
farmers today?
Answer:
Seed Agriculture
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Origins of Agriculture – 400
Question:
What is the green area on
the map known as and
why?
Answer:
The Fertile Crescent,
The earliest civilizations
grew here because of the
fertile soil along its rivers
and the Mediterranean
Sea.
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Origins of Agriculture – 500
Question:
List two distinctly different reasons why it is believed that
vegetative planting originated in Southeast Asia.
Answer:
The region’s diversity of climate and topography
encouraged plants suitable for dividing.
Also, the people obtained food primarily by fishing rather
than by hunting and gathering, so they may have been
more sedentary and therefore able to devote more
attention to growing plants.
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 100
Question:
A higher percentage of workers engage in agriculture in which type of
country?
Answer:
Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 200
Question:
What does this map tell you about the number of farmers in the
darkest red countries and why?
Answer:
There are fewer farmers because machines can do more work reducing
the need for laborers.
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 300
Question:
Production of food primarily for consumption by
the farmer’s family.
Answer:
Subsistence Agriculture
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 400
Question:
What percentage of the United States’ laborers are
farmers?
Answer:
2 percent
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Commercial vs. Subsistence – 500
Question:
Name four of the five principal features that distinguish
commercial from subsistence agriculture.
Answer:
purpose of farming
percentage of farmers in the labor force
use of machinery
farm size
relationship of farming to other businesses
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Agriculture in LDCs – 100
Question:
What does fallow mean?
Answer:
When farmers grow crops on a clear field for only
a few years until the soil nutrients are depleted.
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Agriculture in LDCs – 200
Question:
The term applied to agriculture where farmers
must work a great deal more to subsist on a
small parcel of land, using all available space.
Answer:
Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
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Agriculture in LDCs – 300
Question:
What is swidden?
Answer:
The area of land that farmers clear for planting by
slashing vegetation and burning the debris.
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Agriculture in LDCs – 400
Question:
Inaccurate name given by Europeans and North
Americans to the flooded field in which wet rice
is planted.
Answer:
Paddy
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Agriculture in LDCs – 500
Question:
The seasonal migration of livestock between
mountains and lowland pasture areas.
Answer:
Transhumance
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Agriculture Economics – 100
Question:
Found in more developed countries; production of
food primarily for sale off the farm.
Answer:
Commercial Agriculture
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Agriculture Economics – 200
Question:
A system of big business commercial farming
found in the United States and other relatively
developed countries.
Answer:
Agribusiness
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Agriculture Economics – 300
Question:
Process in semiarid regions where human actions
are causing land to deteriorate to a desert-like
condition.
Answer:
Desertification
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Agriculture Economics – 400
Question:
List two major reasons why commercial agriculture is facing
overproduction today.
Answer:
A dramatic increase in the capacity of the land to produce food.
The market for most products is already saturated.
Low population growth in more developed countries.
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Agriculture Economics – 500
Question:
When addressing Von Thunen’s model, what two
major costs must be taken into account?
Answer:
Cost of land and transportation
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Agriculture in MDCs – 100
Question:
The ring surrounding a city from which dairy
products can be supplied without spoiling.
Answer:
Milkshed
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Agriculture in MDCs – 200
Question:
Commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive
area.
Answer:
Livestock Ranching
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Agriculture in MDCs – 300
Question:
What is a plantation?
Answer:
A large farm that specializes in one or two crops.
Plantations are usually owned by people in more
developed countries, but placed in less
developed countries.
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Agriculture in MDCs – 400
Question:
A form of agriculture that takes place where sea
winds provide moisture for the crops, and with
moderate winter temperatures. Also, this form of
agriculture takes place in hilly, mountainous
regions. The two primary cash crops in this form
of agriculture are olives and grapes.
Answer:
Mediterranean Agriculture
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Agriculture in MDCs – 500
Question:
Commercial gardening and fruit farming taking its
name from its original meaning, to barter.
Answer:
Truck Farming or Market Gardening
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? – 100
Question:
The invention and rapid diffusion of more
productive agricultural techniques during the
1970s and 1980s.
Answer:
Green Revolution
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? – 200
Question:
A form of agriculture based on herding
domesticated animals and practiced widely in
northern Africa.
Answer:
Pastoral Nomadism
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? – 300
Question:
The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
Answer:
Horticulture
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? – 400
Question:
The first person to observe that rapidly increasing
population will cause overpopulation and not
enough resources for all of the people.
Answer:
Thomas Malthus
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? – 500
Question:
Explain the Boserup Thesis.
Answer:
Population increase necessitates increased inputs
of labor and technology to compensate for
reductions in the natural yields of swidden
farming.
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