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How big were the groups of hunters and gatherers in prehistory?
What is agriculture?
What is cultivation?
Explain the two types of plant cultivation. (Where did they originate? To where did they diffuse?)
What is subsistence agriculture?
What is commercial agriculture?
How has farm size altered over the years in the US? Why has it altered?
What are the types of farming in LDCs?
Explain shifting cultivation. What crops are farmed this way? What is ownership like? What is its
future?
Explain pastoral nomadism. What is it like? What animals are used? Where do the people go
generally? What is its future?
What are the two types of intensive subsistence cultivation? What is wet rice dominant? How do they
farm this way? Where do they do this type? What is wet rice not dominant? What has happened to
land ownership under the Chinese communists, and then afterwards?
What types of agriculture are practiced in MDCs?
What are the characteristics of mixed crop/livestock farming?
Explain crop rotation. What crops are used?
What is dairy farming like? Why is it close to urban areas?
What are grain farming areas like? What are the two types of wheat and when are they planted?
What is US livestock ranching like? What is it like in other countries?
What is Mediterranean agriculture like? What is truck farming? What is plantation farming?
What are the connections between climate and farming?
Who is Ester Boserup and what theories has she come up with?
Explain the 5 basic stages.
What is the connection between international trade and farming?
What is Von Thunen's model? Describe and draw the rings.
What happens if farms overproduce?
What kinds of farming policies affect the way that US farmers approach farming?