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Unit 5 Agriculture
Question | Answer |
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What is agriculture ? | Raising crops/animals for human use. |
What is the nature and significance of the agricultural revolution? | When people started deliberately raising crops and animals |
Cultivation | Preparing, planting, caring for, and harvesting a plant crop |
Domestication | Modifying an animal or plant with selective breeding so it becomes dependent on humans |
What is the hearth for potatoes, maize? | Latin America |
What is the hearth for rice and soybeans? | East Asia |
What are the major hearths of the world? | Latin America, Southwest Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia , Sub-Saharan Africa |
What is the hearth for wheat rye and barley? | Southwest Asia |
What is the hearth for coffee, sorghum, and cow peas? | Sub-Saharan Africa |
What is subsistence farming? | Where farmers raise crops or animals for themselves and their family to use. Usually practiced in developing countries |
What is commercial farming? | Where a farmer raises crops and animals for the purpose of selling most of them for profit |
What big change was introduced by the Second Agricultural Revolution? | The use of machinery |
The five major types of agricultural practiced in developing countries are? | Pastoral Nomadism, Shifting Cultivation, Intensive Subsistence of rice, Intensive Subsistence of other crops, and Plantation |
A form of subsistence farming based on the herding of domesticated animals. Most commonly practiced in dry areas where crops can't be grown. | Pastoral Nomadism |
Transhumance | A form of mountain nomadism in which animals are moved from lowland pastures to highland pastures in the Summer |
A form of Agriculture in which people move farming activity from one field to another. Slash and Burn agriculture and Fallow fields are two features of this method. | Shifting cultivation |
Slash and Burn agriculture | Agriculture in which fields are prepared for farming by burning brush |