Types of Agriculture Long-term Info Cards (for unit test; read description) - APHG Unit 5

use these cards with knowt’s long-term memorization feature, the “spaced repetition” mode. using the test probably won’t work well because these cards have whole key concepts on them. WHEN USING SPACED REPETITION: 1) turn off “answer with term” and turn ON “answer with definition.” 2) set the “test date” to early february (it don’t matter too much tbh) 3) when it asks you how easy it was, be honest… doing this isn’t for a hw assignment, it’s for your memorization for both the unit test AND the AP test… your honesty here reflects your performance

characteristics of intensive agriculture

requires lots of labor and money; is typically only on smaller fields near large populations

characteristics of extensive agriculture

doesn't require a lot of labor or money; typically takes place on larger plots of land

market gardening

• planting a few acres of many crops to be sold at (local) markets

• moderate climates (like SoCal) commonly in the Midwest, China, and the UK

• fruits, vegetables, flowers (as cash crops)

• intensive

truck farming

• growing one or more vegetable crops on a large scale for shipment to distant markets

• moderate climates

• mass quantities of fruits, lettuce, broccoli, apples, oranges

• intensive

plantation agriculture

• huge area dedicated for making one type of tropical/subtropical crop to be sold globally, sometimes owned by multinational corporations

• wet tropical & subtropical climates like Brazil, Singapore, and Japan

• bananas, coffee, cocoa, tea

• intensive

mixed crop/livestock agriculture

• growing cash crops to be sold, root crops for locals, as well as raising animals, sometimes doing livestock fattening

• colder, drier, climates such as those in the Middle East, Africa

• cereal grains, root crops (vegetables that grow underground, like cassava), livestock, cash crops (cotton, flax, etc)

• intensive

paddy rice agriculture

• flooding rice crops and terracing hillsides to provide the bunch of water rice needs

• in moist tropical/subtropical regions like Singapore, Southern and Eastern Asia

• rice

• intensive

grain agriculture

• using lots of machinery on large amounts of land to mass produce cereal grains

• found in dry climates and humid continental climates (think New York)

• cereal grains

• intensive/expensive

livestock fattening

• making animals gain a lot of weight by restricting their movement and feeding them a lot before sending them off to be slaughtered for food

• humid continental (like China, Midwest) and subtropical (like Japan)

• livestock to make meat

• intensive

dairy farming (dairying)

• breeding, rearing, and utilization of livestock (usually cows) to produce milk and dairy products

• most places except places where it always rains and dry zones

• cows for dairy products

• intensive

shifting cultivation

• environment-damaging act of cultivating a plot of land until it becomes less productive before leaving it & moving to a new plot of land

• always-raining tropical regions like in Central Africa and Southeast Asia

• extensive

nomadic herding (pastoralism)

• breeding and rearing domesticated herd animals by moving with them to find better conditions (usually food for the animals)

• in cold, arid regions (similar to much of Western Hemisphere)

• livestock

• extensive

livestock ranching

• using extensive plots of land to raise large herds of livestock to sell as meat, hides, or wool

• dry, semiarid regions

• cattle and sheep sold as meat

• extensive

transhumance

• seasonal herding of animals: moving to higher elevations in the summer, & lower elevations in the winter

• MDC's, semiarid regions, like China

• goats/sheep

• extensive