GEO Flashcards Unit 7

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bismarck archipelago

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Mount Wilhelm

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Western Plateau

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Coral Sea

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Wedell sea

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Transantarctic mountains

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papua new guinea

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austrailia

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new zealand

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soloman islands

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vanuatu

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fiji

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tongo

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somoa

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marshall islands

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antartica

One of the 7 wonders of the world found in PERU; built as a royal estate

machu pichu

3 reasons food consumption varies

level of development, physical condition, cultural preferences

food security

physical, social, economic access to safe and nutritious food to live a healthy lifestyle.

region with largest percent of undernourished people

sub-saharan africa

the greatest challange of food security was food_____ instead of food ______

prices; supply

leading protein in developed countries

meat products

3 cereal grain; sources of protien in developing countries

wheat, maize, rice

how did humans obtain needed food before the agriculture advent?

hunted and gathered

First Agriculture Revolution

orgin of farming; hunter and gatherers, subsistence farming, tools and manual labor

first early crops in latin america

maize (corn), beans, cotton, potatoes

first area in the world to domesticate catttle, goats, sheep, and pigs

Southwest asia

subsistence farming

crops grown for consumptiom

commercial agriculture

production of cash crops to sell off the farm

5 types of agriculture found in developing countries

nomadic herding, shifting cultivation, intensive susistence wet rice dominant, ntensive susistence wet rice not dominant, plantation

6 types of agriculture found in developed countries

mixed crop/livestock, dairy, market gardening, grain, mediterranean, livestock ranching

nomatic herding is dominant in which places?

northern africa, southwest asia, central asia, east asia

shifting cultivation

extensive, subsistence, slash and burn, farmers move from field to field

crops grown in plantation farms

coffee, rubber, sugarcane, bananas, tea, coconuts, cotton, .

4 important crops in mediterranean region

olives, figs, dates, grapes

nomadic herding is_______ (intensive or extensive)

extensive

dairy farming is _____ (intensive or extensive)

intensive

Von Thunun’s model of agriculture

a model that suggests a pattern for types of products farmers produce at different places to the market they sell their goods

Von Thunun believed that decisions about agriculture was based on___

transportation costs

3 assumptions that helped shape Von Thunun’s model

a city is an isolated region where products are sold (markets), markets in middle of plains are flat and featureless, farmers are economical producers

First ring of Von Thunun’s model (after market)

dairy/market farming

which activity does Von Thunun’s model suggests needs to be the furthest away?

ranching

why was forestry located where it was?

an important resource, hard to transport

Bid rent theory sugests as farmers get closer to the market the value of the land gets_______

more expensive

What is a Food Desert?

An area (rural or urban) without the easy access to healthy food, supermarkets, and/or grocery stores.

Restaurants in food deserts may be_____

Fast food places

Whats the green revolution

Occuring in the 1950s - 1960s; development of higher yielding disease resistant, faster growing varients of grain; used fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation techniques, and machinery; for increased food supply; mostly in developing regions of the world

Practices associated with the green revolution

Fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation techniques, and machinery.

Positive Effects of Green Revolution

lower food costs, increased access to food, helps farmers make profit

Negative Effects of Green Revolution

mass use of chemicals, loss of biodiversity, pollution

Regions that Green revolution has impacted crop yields

Latin america, south asia, east asia, south east asia