April 8 and April 9, 2014

AP Human Geography Agenda

Agriculture and Rural Land Use

Agriculture and Rural Land Use – At the end of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Identify and mark on maps the major agricultural producing regions of the world.

2. Analyze and categorize the major historical agricultural revolutions.

3. Explain what the geographical and human factors are that affect the production of certain agricultural products in certain regions.

4. Explain how the production of food products determines where and how people live.

5. Explain how different types of agricultural production affect the local and global environments—using specific examples, and differentiating between types of commercial and subsistence agriculture.

6. Compare the quality of life of various human communities based on where they live in relation to food production.

By the end of today, we will

  1. Begin to assess and understand the 4th Agricultural Revolution

Part I: Do now – What do I remember? (5 minutes): Individual

Why would the Green Revolution cause a wider socieo-economic gap?

Part II: At any time you could be taking a map quiz or a group review quiz -

Part III: Continue Discussion of 4th Agricultural Revolution (40 minutes): Reading and Videos

We will go over the PPT and answers. We will then delve a bit more into GMOs

Part IV: Food, Inc (rest of class): Video

Let’s watch this gross stuff . . .

Part V: Do Later – what did I learn (end of class): Individual

How has agribusiness changed the way that American farm?

UpComing Events:

4/4 and 4/7: Green Revolution and Agribusiness

4/8 and 4/9: GMO day

4/10 and 4/11: Test on Agriculture

IF YOU LEARN ONLY 7 THINGS IN THIS UNIT (Agriculture):

  1. Many of the world’s crop products are dictated by the climate of the region where they are grown.
  2. There were 4 Agricultural Revolutions that changed history. The first was the transition from hunting and gathering to planting and sustaining. The second increased productivity of farming through mechanization and access to markets due to better transportation. The third was the Green revolution whose intent was to increase food production in marginalized areas. The fourth and current revolution is the use of GMOs.
  3. Von Tunen’s model focuses on transportation. The distance and the weight of crops as well as their distance to market affect which ones are grown.
  4. There are 2 primary methods of farming in the world. Subsistence farming involves producing agricultural products for use by the farm family. Commercial farming involves the sale of agricultural products by the farm.
  5. Many of the settlement patterns in the US have been based on the agricultural possibilities of the areas.
  6. Modern agriculture is becoming more industrialized and more specialized than ever. The loss of the family farm is a direct result of the rise of feedlots and mega-farms used to produce enormous quantities of agricultural commodities.
  7. To compete with agribusiness in the US, many family farms are turning to sustainable methods of production, organic agriculture and catering to the local food movement.

This Day in History

1513 Ponce de León claimed Florida for Spain.

1913 The17th Amendment was ratified, requiring the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislators.

1935 TheWorks Progress Administration (WPA) was approved by Congress to help alleviate joblessness during the Great Depression.

1946 TheLeague of Nations assembled for the last time.

1973 ArtistPablo Picasso died.

1974 Henry "Hank" Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career, breaking Babe Ruth's record.

1986 ActorClint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.

1992 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe announced that he had AIDS.

INTERFAITH CONFLICTS

Place / Interfaith Boundary / Conflict
China (Tibet) / Tibetan Buddhism and
Atheism / The atheist Chinese government id destroying Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, and overall trying to suppress the religion.
Nigeria / Islam and Christianity / Islam prevails in the northern region while Christianity and local religions prevail in the South. Lead to power based tensions for government control
India / Hinduism and Sikhism / Sikhs in the NW state of Punjab demand autonomy from the Hindu-controlled government of India
India and Pakistan / Hinduism and Islam / Pakistan was established as a Muslim state in 1948. Pakistan and India are fighting over territory called Jammu and Kashmir
Former Yugoslavia / Christianity and Islam / In the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s, Serb leader Slobadan Milosevic tried to kill or evict the Muslim population in Bosnia and the other Serbian controlled lands in the region
Central African Republic / Muslim and Christianity / With its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into sustained violence along religious lines and spilling beyond the country’s borders, further destabilizing the whole region
Burma/Myanmar / Buddhism and Islam / Though Muslims nationwide have been targeted, members of one particular ethnic group, the Rohingya, have borne the brunt of the violence. Many Buddhists view the Rohingya Muslims, who live along the border with Bangladesh, as illegal immigrants, even though many have been in Myanmar for generations.

INTRAFAITH CONFLICTS

Place / Intrafaith Boundary / Conflict
Iraq / Islam: Sunni and Shiite / After the fall of the largely Sunni government controlled by Saddam Hussein, both Sunnis and Shiites are warring for control of the newly forming political landscape
US / Christian: Fundamentalism and moderate Christianity / Christians have conflicted in the US over political-cultural issues such as homosexuality, evolution, and abortion. In some cases, violent tactics have been used
Northern Ireland / Christian: Protestant and Catholic / British Colonialism deposited large numbers of Protestants in traditionally Catholic Northern Ireland. Has caused violent conflicts between the 2 groups in the regions