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Agriculture Chapter Review Questions/ Thinking Geographically

Key Issue #1

  1. What is the definition of agriculture? What is the definition of crop?
  1. How many people today still survive by hunting and gathering? Give one example and their location.
  1. What was the agricultural revolution? Why was this a major historical event?
  1. What does it mean to domesticate an animal? What animal is thought to be the 1st to be domesticated in history?
  1. What is the difference between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture? What are the three main features that distinguish the two?
  1. What is the difference in % of farmers is the labor force between developed and developing countries? WHY?
  1. What other electronics, in addition to GPS devices, might help a farmer on a very large farm? (THINK)

Key Issue #2

  1. What is a cereal grain? What are the three leading cereal grains worldwide? Where are they predominately consumed?
  1. What two countries have the highest calorie consumption per day? What is the total?
  1. What is undernourishment? The UN estimates how many people to be undernourished worldwide?

Key Issue #3

  1. For the following give:

Type of Agriculture / Definition / LDC or MDC / Characteristics / Crop/Animal
Pastoral Nomadism
Shifting Cultivation
Intensive Subsistence
Wet Rice Dominant
Intensive Subsistence Wet Rice NOT Dominant
Plantation Farming
Mixed Crop and Livestock
Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming
Dairy Farming
Grain Farming
Mediterranean Agriculture
Livestock Ranching

Key Issue #4

  1. What are the two ways, according the Ester Boserup, farmers can increases the food supply?
  1. Explain why export crops are so important for developing countries? How can this lead to LDCs being “stuck” and not being able to develop?
  1. What is an example of a product available in supermarkets in the U.S. that was exported from an LDC? (THINK)
  1. How have government policies made the food shortage in Africa worse?
  1. List where the following drug crops are predominately grown: Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana.
  1. What does most consumption of cocaine and heroin occur in developed countries? (THINK)
  1. What are the factors that the UN attributes to record food prices?
  1. What is aquaculture? How have Asian Carp impacted Chicago’s economy?
  1. What is the fundamental irony in worldwide agricultural patterns?
  1. Who is Von Thunen? What book did he write? Why is it important??? (ALWAYS ON AP EXAM!!!)
  1. Draw and Label Von Thunen’s Model
  1. What are the assumptions of the model? What does that actually mean?
  1. How is the model applicable on a global scale?
  1. If the price of wheat dropped to $200 per ton, what would be the maximum distance that the wheat could be profitably shipped?
  1. What are the four strategies to increase food distribution worldwide? Briefly explain each.
  1. What is desertification? What are the three leading causes of desertification worldwide?
  1. In the U.S. what has been responsible for the loss of prime agricultural land?
  1. What is the green revolution? What is its significance?
  1. Why are GMO’s so controversial?
  1. What are the benefits and drawbacks for sub-Saharan Africa to plant more GMO crops? (THINK)
  1. What is sustainable agriculture?
  1. What is ridge tillage? What is it used for?
  1. What is the difference between using “Round-up Ready” and sustainable agriculture?
  1. Are you willing to pay more for organically grown food? Why or Why not?