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AP agriculture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| climates | tropical -subtropical -dry -mediterranean -warm mid latitude -cold mid latitude |
| tropical | coffee sugr pineapple |
| subtropial | rice cotton tobacco |
| dry | cattle goats horses |
| mediterranean | grapes olives leaves |
| warm mid latitude | fruits rice vegetables |
| cold mid latitude | wheat barley livestock |
| genetically modified organism | organism whose Genome is altered to promote specific traits that allow for increased population in livestock production |
| commercial agriculture | form of agr where farmers grow crops and raise livestock for profit to sell to customers |
| subsistence AG | farmers grow food for survival and for family consumption |
| intensive the inputs and relies | farming method that expands a great deal to produce as much yield as possible rely on high levels of inputs and energy input- fertilizers, pesticides, human and animal labor |
| extensive examples, where its from, what they use | uses low input of labor per unit of land area uses natural resources ex- ranching, nomadic herding often found in low population areas |
| bid rent theory | explains how land value determines how a former will use the land |
| wheat | cereal crop uses in bread pasta, crackers, breadcrumbs, flours, cereals |
| staple crops | wheat, rice and maize |
| us wheat belt | part of the great plains region in the US fertile soil four seasons |
| commodity chain ex | ll of the different activities and processes that go into a product production,distribution, and sale of the product |
| agribusiness | large scale system that includes production, processing, distribution of agriculture products and equipment |
| combine | a large machine that combines these harvesting tasks into one process, saving time and labor |
| grain elevators | buildings that store grain for farmers in order to wait until grain prices rise and they can sell high |
| economies of scale | as a company grows it is able to reuse the average cost to produce its product family farms struggle to compete with larger industrial farms |
| Bengal famine | India's worst food disaster four million people died fear that population was growing faster than food |
| green revolution , key innovation | increased mechanization of agriculture in LDCs with high populations and low development innovations- irrigation, machinery, nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, hybrid seeds with high yields. |
| father of the GR | Norman borlaug developed high yield semi dwarf wheat varieties in Mexico resistance to disease saved 1 billion people from starvation |
| grain AG and problems | rice oats corn and wheat extensive, capital intensive problems-machines emit pollution less crop diversity |
| rice AG and problems | intensive and subsistence problems- climate change, water scarcity, soil degradation wet ride= unwanted floods |
| plantation | large farm that specializes in one or two crops |
| cash crops examples and practiced | produced for its commercial value rather than used by the farmer ex- cotton, cocoa, tea, coffee practiced in humid, low latitude tropical climates |
| plantation problems | child labor, fueled slavery, brutal treatment of native American |
| monoulture why | practice of growing a single crop increases the use of pesticides and fertilizers |
| coffee | made in brazil, Colombia, Vietnam industry contributes to economies of LDCs |
| banana and problems | tropical locations commercial intensive transported quickly problems- global trade impacted by trade agreements and tariffs 1993 banana trade fight between us and EU lasted 6 years |
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