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rubenstein ch. 10 Test

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What type of agriculture exists in Southern Europe, North Africa, California, Central Chile and Southwestern South Africa?
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Name 2 policies the US gov't uses to discourage farmers from producing too much food.
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What is the purpose of commercial farming?
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Before the invention of agriculture, how did people provide for themselves?
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What is the term of cultivation of 2 crops per year?
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Due to overgrazing, what are semiarid lands subject to?
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Name 2 areas where hunter and gatherers still live.
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In Europe, what method did farmers emply to maintain soil fertility?
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What are 2 hallmarks of slash and burn agriculture?
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What continent benefitted the least from the Green Revolution?
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What 2 crops are grown the most in mixed crop and livestock agriculture regions?
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What is the seasonal practice of moving livestock between mountains and lowlands called?
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According to Von Thumen, how is land used in the ring closest to the market?
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What is the reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that results from sexual fertilization called?
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What type of agriculture consists of producing only enough food for your family to consume?
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What type of farming produces the products demanded by consumers in MDC's?
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What are 2 basic principles of sustainable agriculture?
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What type of farming has spread to New England which consists of growing expensive vegetables and nursery plants?
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What is the system of commercial farming and other MDCs called?
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Most commercial fasrms in the United States are family owned. True or False?
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Subsistence
B.
corn adn soybeans
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limited use of chemicals and integration of crops and livestock.
D.
crop rotation
E.
True
F.
truck farming / commercial gardening
G.
shifting cultivation, fields only used a couple of years, fields are slashed and then burned
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by hunting and gathering
I.
seed agriculture
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They encourage planting fallow crops. and they pay farmers when prices are low.
K.
desertification
L.
Arctic, interior of Africa and interior of Australia
M.
Mediterranean
N.
Specialty farming
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double cropping
P.
Africa
Q.
transhumence
R.
Agribusiness
S.
to sell crops for money
T.
perishable products like dairy and horticulture
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Where did vegetative planting most likely begin?
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What is the ring surrounding the city from which milk can be supplied without spiling called?
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What is the practice of growing crops of ridgetops called?
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What type of activity takes place on some of the most isolated places on earth?
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The mapping of agriculture regions closely relates to what other phenomena?
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According to the Von Thumen model, how is the third ring used?
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What percent of people in MDC's are directly involved in farming?
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Who created a theory to explain how population growth influences the distribution of types of susistence farming?
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Name 3 plantation agricultural products.
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What are the primary spring wheat belt in the United States?

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