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Agriculture
AP Human Geo: Argiculture unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define Argiculture | the deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenence or economic gain |
| Define the 1st agricultural revolution | when humans first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
| What crop hearths are in Southwest Asia? | Barley, olives, wheat, and lentils |
| What crop hearths are in East Asia? | Rice and millet |
| What crop hearths are in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Sroghum, yams, millet, and rice |
| What crop hearths are in Latin America? | Beans, cotton, potato, and maize |
| What animal hearths are in Southwest Asia? | Cattle, goats, pigs, sheeps, and dogs |
| What animal hearths are in Central Asia? | Horses |
| Define root crops | crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants |
| Define seed crops | plants that are reproduce by cultivating seeds |
| Define subsistence agriculture | production of food primarily for consumption by the farmers family (Mainly developing countries) |
| Define commercial agriculture | production of food primarily for sale off of the farm (Mainly for developed countries) |
| Define cereal grain | a grass that yields grain for food |
| Define food security | when people have physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutricious food sufficient for an active and healty lifestyle |
| Where do people within developed countries get their protein? | Meat products (beef, pork, and poultry) |
| Where do people within developing countries get their protein? | cereal grain |
| Define undernourishment | dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life |
| Define extensive subsistence ag. | large area of land, minimum labor input. Both product per land area and population densities are low |
| What are two farming examples of extensive subsistence ag.? | Pastoral nomadism and shifting cultivation |
| Define intensive subsistence ag. | cultivation of small parcels of land, great amounts of labor per acre. yields per unite area and population densities are high |
| What are two farming examples of intensive subsistence ag.? | Wet rice dominant and non-rice dominant |
| Define extensive commercial ag. | low amounts of labor per unit land area and is practical further from markets on less expensive lands |
| What are two farming examples of extensive commercial ag.? | Grain and ranching |
| Define intensive commercial ag. | practiced in areas where large amounts of captial (machinery/fertilizer) and labor per unit of land are used smaller areas of land but higher yield/land area of product |
| What are farming examples of intensive commercial ag.? (5) | Mixed crop and livestock, dairying, mediterranean, market gardening, and plantation |
| Intensive or Extensive? High input of capital labor, fertilizer, machinery, etc. | intensive |
| Intensive or Extensive? Small inputs of labor, capital and fertilizers relative to the area of cropland | extensive |
| Intensive or Extensive? Practiced in densely populated areas where the population is high but ag. land is limited and expensive | intensive |
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