What does agriculture mean?

Shaping the land to raise crops or livestock to be traded or eaten

Watering land to prepare it to be used for agriculture

A neighborhood where people have no access to healthy food

Which of the following is an assumption made by the Von Thünen Model?

Farmers only want to make money from their products

What does bid-rent theory tell people?

Rent will go up the closer you get to a city's business center

Growing only 1 crop or raising 1 type of animal per year

How did the Green Revolution help agriculture?

Focused on scientific methods to improve farming

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1
Which of the following is NOT a survey method used in agriculture?
Public Land Survey System
Dutch Wide Lot
French Long Lot
Metes & Bounds
2
GMOs & new fertilizers have helped farmers around the world produce more food
False
True
3
What does agriculture mean?
Developing technologies that can be used to help people
Helping people move from rural to urban areas in search of jobs
Transporting goods across a country or the world
Shaping the land to raise crops or livestock to be traded or eaten
4
Urban Farming was developed to give people in cities a way to make money
False
True
5
Which of the following is NOT a type of rural settlement?
Linear Settlement
Dispersed Settlement
Clustered Settlement
Solitary Settlement
6
Desertification & pollution are two possible consequences of bad farming practices.
True
False
7
What is irrigation?
Using fertilizer to help increase the amount of food grown
Cutting down trees in a region to open up space for agriculture
Cutting into a hill to create space to be used for agriculture
Watering land to prepare it to be used for agriculture
8
A food desert is...
A very dry region where food production is very hard to accomplish
A farm that focuses on growing crops that require a hot or dry climate
A neighborhood where people have no access to healthy food
A neighborhood where growing food is impossible due to bad soil
9
Which of the following is an assumption made by the Von Thünen Model?
Farmers only want to make money from their products
Markets are usually surrounded by tons of different landmarks
Farmers will stick with the first product they grow or raise
There are multiple markets per city for farmers to sell their goods
10
What does bid-rent theory tell people?
Pieces of land are less expensive to rent when they are empty
Rent will go down the closer you get to a city's business center
Rent will go up the closer you get to a city's business center
Properties are more likely to be bought through auctions than rented
11
When a farmer is growing enough food to make money, it is called...
Subsistence Farming
Commercial Farming
Intensive Farming
Extensive Farming
12
What is Monoculture?
Growing 2 or more crops or raising 2 or more types of animals per year
Harvesting a specific crop only 1 time per year
Harvesting a specific crop 2 or more times per year
Growing only 1 crop or raising 1 type of animal per year
13
How did the Green Revolution help agriculture?
Focused on raising 1 crop or type of animal at a time
Focused on scientific methods to improve farming
Created new machines that could be used on farms
Helped domesticate new plants and animals for the first time

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