Chapter 10 Agriculture

1st to mix seed agriculture with domestication of herd animals was India, China, or Ethiopia?  

Domestication of animals was extremely successful thousands of yearsago in which AP region?  

Hunting and gathering societies are found in what kind of places in theworld?

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowlandpastures is called? 

What is the average consumption worldwide? - (In Kcal)

The first agriculturists were called what?  

After corn, the most important crop in the USA mixed crop and livestockregion is what?

What is the most widely produced grain crop in the USA?  

Ranchers & farmers are subject to 3 factors when selecting a type of agriculture crop to raise

The decline in the # of farmers can best be described as a consequenceof what factors?

Agricultural Revolution # WHAT includes the Industrial Revolution?  

Describe the most "typical" human...

What continent faces the greatest challenge in providing food for a growing population?

The rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, esp. new high-yieldseeds and fertilizers is

What is the purpose of crop rotation?  

The area surrounding a city from which the milk is supplied

Which is a question one must ask in order to decide which ring of Von Thuren to plant in?

The outer covering of a seed

Form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals iscalled? 

What is the leading source of dietary energy in Venezuela?

The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

What kind of farming means the bartering or the exchange of commodities?

Another name for “shifting cultivation” would be?

Which LDC farming is found in the tropical regions with an “A” type ofclimate

There are only ~350,000 modern day people like the Bushmen & PilaNguru. What are they called? 

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off thefarm is called? 

Which type of agriculture occupies the largest % of the world’s landarea?  

 A patch of land cleared forplanting through slashing and burning is called?  

Farmer jobs belong to what type of AP jobs?  

What is the leading source of protein in developing countries?

What does it mean by the WHITE REVOLUTION in India?  

Von Thunen's Model of Agriculture includes 2 considerations.  Which is NOT one of them?

Seed of a cereal grass

Pastoral nomadism is predominately practiced in which AP region?

Farmers make up what percentage of the USA labor force?        

Farming varies around the world because of what two factors?

Agriculture is caught up in the WHAT/blank of the economy as other industries?  

Where did the turkey originate as far as AP regions?

Which is NOT a type of LDC farming?

What is the most important reason for dividing the world intoagriculture regions?  

Type of agriculture practiced by the largest percentage of the world’speople is?  

Which 2 countries consume the most calories per day?

Agriculture in which farmers expend a lot of effort to produce maximum feasible yield from land

Only about 15 million people are nomads, but they sparsely occupy ___%of the earth's land area?

Ranching has declined in the southwestern USA primarily because of what?

Degradation of land primarily b/c of humanaction ie excessive crop planting & animal grazing is

What is the most common form of commercial agriculture in Europe?

?There are two major points that make up what the Green Revolution isabout.  What are they?

What is the primary cereal grain eaten in Europe and North America?

What are the three leading cereal grains?

Which AP region was the hearth for corn, beans, and potatoes?

According to Thomas Malthus's Model the food supply increasesarithmetically or geometrically?  

The first ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied iscalled the what?  

The Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah

The Mediterranean Climate produces 2 types of main crops.  What are they?

Which does NOT distinguish commercial agriculture from subsistence agriculture?

Mixed cropping also involves including what other type of farming?  

To increase crop yields, farmers in South China commonly practice what?

Esther Boserup believed that WHATis a positive force driving agricultural innovations?

Wheat planted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer is whichkind? 

In the early 1800s, USA ranchers abided by the open range concept alsoknown as the what?  

Why can commercial farmers produce more food than can be consumed in developed countries?

In the USA many farms are integrated into a large food productionindustry called what?

Method of planting seeds which is reproduced by sexual reproductionlike in flowers or fruit is

Where do most humans derive most of their kilocalories from?

Where did the horse originate as far as AP regions?  

What letter of the alphabet climate would you find shifting cultivation?

Which is NOT a practice of the Green Revolution?

Rice is thought to have been domesticated in what AP region more than10,000 year ago?

What are the 2 problems that dairy farmers currently face in the USA? 

What percentage of world farmers are in LDCs?  

Agricultural Revolution # WHAT includes the AgriculturalRevolution?  

The origins of agriculture cannot be documented with certainty becauseof why?

Crop rotation is found in what kind of MDC farming?

Most crops in Mediterranean lands are grown for WHAT rather than foranimal feed?

Which one of the following 3 combinations result in food variety worldwide?

Plantation farming is primarily found where?

Agricultural Revolution #WHAT is synonymous with the GreenRevolution?  

Between what 2 rivers was the domestication of animals thousands of yearsago most successful?  

How many people worldwide are undernourished based on the UN's estimate?

Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers

Boserup's Stage5 Model: multi-cropping a same plot bears few crops a year with little/no__time?

Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of thefollowing?  

The predominant form of agriculture in the US southeast is?

Geographer Derwent Whittlesey divided the world into how manyagricultural regions?  

The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers is?  

The cultivation of plants by cutting stems and dividing roots is?  

Type of LDC farming takes place in the LDCs, but real profitand owner belongs to the MDCs.

What is the leading export crop in the world?