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Unit 5: Agriculture
Rowe´s 5th period
Question | Answer |
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What is growing a crop and rasing livestock for human use called? | agriculture |
When people began deliberately raising plants and animals | agricultural revolution |
What hearth grows maize, peppers, squash, cassava, and potato? | Latin America |
Where are yams, coffee, sorghum, and cow-pea grown? | Sub-Saharan Africa |
What hearth grows barley, oats, and emmer wheat? | Southwest Asia |
Where are rice and soybeans grown? | East Asia |
Mango, taro, and coconut are from which hearth? | Southeast Asia |
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. |
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 |
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 |
How does wealth connect with the geographic distribution of agricultural practices? | it expands choices through machinery, irrigation, etc.... |
How does culture connect with the geographic distribution of agricultural practices? | food taboos and preferences based on custom, religion, etc. |
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 |
What is mountain nomadism in which animals are moved from lowland pastures to highland pastures in the summer? | transhumance |
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 |
What is cleared land called? | swidden |