5.1 - 5.12 AP HUG

Agriculture practiced in California differs from forms practiced in other Mediterranean agricultural regions because in California

farms use more irrigation

Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

Multicropping

In reading the landscape of the image, a geographer will most likely describe the land-survey pattern shown as typical of which of the following locations?

A rural agricultural region in the United States

Which of the following terms identifies the type of land survey system shown in the satellite image?

Township and range

Technologies invented during which of the following periods explain how farmland was divided and cultivated as shown in the satellite image?

Second Agricultural Revolution, when land-surveying technology and mechanical plows were developed.

Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT

physical barriers preventing communal farm practices

Land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear because

the federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth century imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape

Corn (maize) was first domesticated in

Central Mexico

In which of the following areas was wheat most probably domesticated earliest?

Southeastern Turkey

Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication?

Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East

Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and the Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their

intensive agriculture based on irrigation

Dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by

an increase in the use of energy and technology

Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following in modern agriculture?

The development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas

Which of the following best explains a neo-Malthusian perspective on the Green Revolution?

The Green Revolution represents a jump in agricultural technology, but population will still grow faster than our ability to produce food will over the long run.

Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called

subsistence agriculture

Which of the following best explains the importance of climate to agricultural practices?

Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China.

With the exception of Hawaii, the map shows the pattern of production for coffee beans by country.

If the map was reproduced at the subnational state or provincial scale, as Hawaii is on the map, what changes in pattern would be expected in other parts of the world?

The states in northern Mexico and northern India would not show any production.

Which of the following forms of agriculture would best be described as extensive farming?

Cattle ranching and wheat farming

Which of the following is the best example of extensive land use in agriculture?

A sheep ranch

In which of the following countries is terracing LEAST likely to be used by farming groups to create additional space and minimize erosion on steep slopes?

Niger

Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called

subsistence agriculture

Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?

Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city in the midwestern United States

Which of the following best explains why farmers would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the same field?

Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.

Subsistence agriculture is most common in which of the following regions?

Amazon Basin

Why have many family farms in North America been replaced by agribusiness farms since the 1980s?

Agribusiness farms have the resources to take advantage of economies of scale.

Which of the following statements best describes the impact of improvements in transportation systems on agriculture?

Corporate farms have gained a greater advantage over family farms.

Which of the following activities is most likely to be found in the outermost zone of von Thünen's model of agricultural land use?

Extensive grain or stock raising

According to the von Thünen model, which of the following economic factors determine the pattern of land use shown on the diagram?

Costs of labor, transport, and land rent

Which of the following best explains why the New England region, located in the northeastern United States, would specialize in market gardening agriculture rather than other types of agriculture, such as grain farming?

Several large cities on the East Coast provide a growing market and shorter distances for transporting market gardening products.

Compared to North American ranchers, commercial ranchers in the Pampas of  Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil  are more likely to

raise livestock primarily for export

In North America, which of the following frequently consumed items is most likely to be supplied by a trans-national corporation?

Coffee

Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they

were engaged in collecting plant resources

Which of the following explains the significance of the similarities between Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in terms of the percent of women working agriculture?

In the subsistence-based rural economies in these regions, female farmers produce much of the food that their families need for survival.

All of the following statements about the geography of meat production in the United States and Canada are true EXCEPT

Consumer demand for organic foods has significantly decreased the amount of meat produced by most agribusiness firms .

Genetic engineering of agricultural crops has primarily increased the productivity of modern farming by

increasing plants’ drought resistance and resistance to pests

The chickens shown in the image are an example of value-added agriculture used by small family-run farms to compete with large agribusiness poultry and egg farms.

Which of the following types of value-added products best describes the kind of agriculture shown in the image?

Free-range

The two images represent two different methods of raising livestock in the United States. Which of the following statements most accurately compares these two agricultural practices?

Responses

Feedlots can minimize costs associated with livestock production because feedlots do not use as much space as cattle ranching.

Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced

in the dry regions of Africa and Asia