AP Human Geo Unit 5 FRQ Review

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Commercial Agriculture

Farming aimed at selling crops and livestock for profit, such as wheat, soybeans, and cattle.

Luxury Crops

Crops grown primarily for their high market value and not considered essential for basic human survival, often associated with wealth and status, like coffee and tea.

Plantation Agriculture

A type of large-scale commercial farming of one particular crop, grown for distant markets, often in tropical regions, such as coffee and sugarcane.

Columbian Exchange

The global exchange of crops, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia, initiated after Columbus's landing in 1492.

Hearths of Corn, Cacao, & Coffee

Regions known for the early cultivation of corn, cacao, and coffee, including areas in Southwest Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Mesoamerica.

Fairtrade

A movement to provide fair prices to farmers and workers in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries by improving trading conditions.

Environmental Impacts

Consequences of agricultural practices including pollution, soil depletion, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and desertification.

Global Supply Chains

A network of people, information, processes, and resources that work together to produce, handle, and distribute goods globally.