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Unit 5: Agriculture
Unit 5 Agriculture
Question | Answer |
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What is agriculture? | Is growing crops or raising animals for the use of humans. |
What is Cultivation? | The act of preparing land to farm on |
What is Domestication? | Making a plant or animal to keep in one area, such as a farm. |
How was life before the agricultural revolution? | Hunting and gathering |
How did the agricultural revolution begin? | We started farming and domesticating pants and animals to our environment. |
What is Subsistence Agriculture? | The making of food that is mainly for the farmer's family. |
What is Commercial Agriculture? | The selling of food that is produced on your farm. |
Who is Carl Suer? | He creating the theory on how the agricultural revolution started. |
What is the the only animal that was given from the new world to the old world? | Turkeys |
What are the 5 major crop hearths? | Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, East Asia, and South West Asia |
What is ones of the reasons agriculture is so different in developing countries, than in developed countries? | Developing countries may not have all the machinery and money to have bigger farms. This making it more expensive to farm. |
What was the first agricultural revolution? | |
What was the second agricultural revolution? | 1800's; the use of machinery and refrigerators |
Who was Esther Boserup? |