Rowe´s 5th period
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| What is growing a crop and rasing livestock for human use called? | agriculture
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| When people began deliberately raising plants and animals | agricultural revolution
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| What hearth grows maize, peppers, squash, cassava, and potato? | Latin America
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| Where are yams, coffee, sorghum, and cow-pea grown? | Sub-Saharan Africa
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| What hearth grows barley, oats, and emmer wheat? | Southwest Asia
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| Where are rice and soybeans grown? | East Asia
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| Mango, taro, and coconut are from which hearth? | Southeast Asia
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| What is the main difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture? | Subsistence is production of food primarily for consumption by the farmers family, while commercial is grown to sale for money.
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| What is the key change associated with the second agricultural revolution and when did it occur? | new machinery like tractors made it easier to farm efficiently ; 1800´s
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| How does climate connect with the geographic distribution of agricultural practices? | it presents a range of choices b/c certain crops are better suited for certain climate
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| How does wealth connect with the geographic distribution of agricultural practices? | it expands choices through machinery, irrigation, etc....
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| How does culture connect with the geographic distribution of agricultural practices? | food taboos and preferences based on custom, religion, etc.
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| What is Pastoral nomad-ism? Where is it practiced and why? | It is a form of subsistence ag. that is based on the herding of domesticated animals.... practiced in dry regions where too dry to plant crops...EX: Masai in Africa
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| What is mountain nomadism in which animals are moved from lowland pastures to highland pastures in the summer? | transhumance
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| What is Shifting cultivation? | form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another (slash and burn, fallow fields) practiced mainly in tropical regions with abundant rainfall
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| What is cleared land called? | swidden
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