Unit 5 Review (Agriculture and Rural Land-Use)

Question 1

Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT

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physical barriers preventing communal farm practices

Question 2

Which of the following correctly explains the placement of an agricultural product within von Thünen’s model?

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Tomatoes are grown closest to the market because they spoil quickly.

Question 3

Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced

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in the dry regions of Africa and Asia

Question 4

The process of soil salinization is most likely to occur in areas where there is

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excessive irrigation in dry-land agricultural zones

Question 5

The method of farming in woodland areas that has been practiced for centuries but poses an environmental problem is

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slash and burn agriculture

Question 6

Which of the following is an intensive agriculture practice that specializes in a single tropical crop 4 global markets?

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Plantation agriculture

Question 7

To increase agricultural productivity & increase the pest-resistance of many crops, agro-industry firms have developed

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genetically engineered foods

Question 8

Von Thünen emphasized which of the following factors in his model of agricultural land use?

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Transportation cost

Question 9

In the Third World, plantation crops like bananas, coffee, and sugar are examples of

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export-based agriculture

Question 10

Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication?

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Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East

Question 11

Which of the following activities is most likely to be found in the outermost zone of von Thünen's model?

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Extensive grain or stock raising

Question 12

Which of the following environmental problems is most associated with the African Sahel?

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Desertification

Question 13

Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and the Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their

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intensive agriculture based on irrigation

Question 14

Which plant was the dominant staple crop for the hearths of Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, & the Fertile Crescent?

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wheat

Question 15

Mediterranean agricultural products are grown in the United States primarily in

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Central and Southern California

Question 16

Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is

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subsistence agriculture

Question 17

One option for small family-owned farms to increase the market value of their crops would be

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switch to organic farming practices with no pesticides or chem. fertilizers

Question 18

Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following in modern agriculture?

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The development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas

Question 19

All of the following are true of truck farming EXCEPT:

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Labor costs are often relatively high on large-scale farming operations.

Question 20

The staple crop of the Andean culture hearth of the Inca people was

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potatoes

Question 21

In North America, which of the following items is most likely to be supplied by a trans-national corporation?

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Coffee

Question 22

Dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by

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an increase in the use of energy and technology

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