Aphg unit 5

Agriculture

Purposeful cultivation of plants or raising of animals to produce goods for survival. Bound to physical environment, four factors: climate, elevation, soil, and topography

Climate regions

Combination of temperature, precipitation, wind patterns, and topography produces different climate regions. Areas that have similar climate patterns generally based on their latitude and their location on coasts or continental interiors.

Mediterranean agriculture

Agricultural practice of growing hardy trees (olive, fruit, nut) and shrubs (grape vines) and raising sheep and goats. Sparse, scrubby summer growth and steep landscape.

subsistence agriculture

grow and raise a diverse range of crops and livestock for their family’s consumption. Enjoy plentiful harvest and produce more than meets their needs, may barter or sell their excess products for cash. Obtaining enough yield to feed one’s family and close community using fewer mechanical resources and more hand labor to care for the crops and livestock.

Commercial agriculture

Farmers grow crops and raise livestock for profit to sell to customers who buy these goods in a form of agriculture. The goods depend on a range of geographic and economic factors, comparative advantages of their farmland and environment, market demand for particular products, and their agricultural practices.

Bid-rent theory

Explains how land value determines how a farmer will use the land-either intensively or extensively. Land value is high, farmers will buy less land and use it intensively to produce the most agricultural yield per unit of land. Land has lower value/farther from market, farmers will buy more land and use it extensively.