Chapter 7

What defines agriculture? List examples of agriculture for food and non-food purposes.

How did people get their food before agriculture? Where in the world is this form of food production still practiced?

What is the difference between vegetative planting and seed agriculture.

Describe the hearths of each of these agricultural revolutions and the innovations that led to their occurrence:

First Agricultural Revolution

Second Agricultural Revolution

Third Agricultural Revolution

Green Revolution

Corporate/industrial agriculture

Describe arguments for and against the Green Revolution. Make a T-chart.

Describe arguments for and against corporate/industrial agriculture (agribusiness). Make a T-Chart

Define each of the following types of agriculture and describe where each is most prevalent in today’s world. You may use my videos in the Agriculture Video - I cover farming in LDC’s and MDC’s.

Subsistence agriculture

Shifting cultivation

Pastoral nomadism

Commercial agriculture

Plantation agriculture

List the regions of the world where you would likely find each of the following activities.

Dairying

Commercial grain farming

Mediterranean agriculture

Rice cultivation (for subsistence agriculture)

Shifting cultivation

Livestock ranching

Nomadic/Semi-nomadic herding

Explain the differences between each of the following modes of agricultural production.

Labor intensive v. Capital intensive

Intensive v. Extensive

Sedentary v. Nomadism

Draw and label Von Thünen’s model of agricultural land use.

List the assumptions that Von Thünen made when developing his model.

What two factors did Von Thünen say were most important to determining land use for commercial agriculture?

List at least three reasons that agricultural land use patterns today differ from Von Thünen’s model.

Describe and draw a picture of each of the following cadastral systems. Also note (a) where the system originated and (b) where in the U.S. you would be most likely to find it (refer to map in Fig. 11.10).

Township and range

Long lot

Metes and bounds