AP Human Geography
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Rubenstein Chapter 10 Key Issues
Food and Industry Unit
Key Issue 10 .1
1. What are the primary crop and livestock hearths?
2. What were the common ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMAN factors that contributed to the growth of
agriculture?
3. Make a timeline with crop and animal hearths, including dates and significant crop and animal
development.
4. Explain the difference between SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE and COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE.
5. Looking at the map on page 350, describe the geographical trend shown.
6. How have machines and technology been of assistance to farmers historically?
7. Looking at the map on page 351, describe the geographical trend shown.
Key Issue 10.2
1. How does diet vary based on level of development?
2. How does diet vary based on physical conditions?
3. Explain the way the use of wheat, rice, maize and other crops vary geographically.
4. How does the the source of protein vary geographically. Briefly summarize the maps on page 353.
5. What levels of dietary intake are considered optimal by the UN?
6. How does caloric intake vary geographically and by level of development? (Make a small chart that
summarizes this information)
7. Briefly summarize the information shown on map 10-13.
8. How much money do people in advanced countries spend on food? Undeveloped countries?
Compare and contrast America, France, and India.
9. What is undernourishment? What are global trends in undernourishment?
10. How and where have trends in undernourishment changed?
11. Reproduce the map, pie chart, or graph from page 355.
Key Issue 10.3
Note: It might be a good idea to make a chart to summarize the information in Questions 1-5
Example:
Ag Region
Pastoral
Nomadism
Where?
SWA, NA,
CA, EA
LD or MD
LD
Sub or Com
Sub
Climate
Dry
Crops
Some grain
Animals
Camels,
goats, sheep,
horses
Shifting
Cultivation
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What are the 11 main agricultural regions?
How do they differ in developed vs developing nations?
WHERE are the different types of agriculture practiced? (See Above)
What is the relationship between climate regions and type of agriculture?
Throwback: What’s the difference between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture?
AP Human Geography
Name: ________________
Rubenstein Chapter 10 Key Issues
Food and Industry Unit
6. How do the ideas of posibilism and environmental determinism influence type and location of
agriculture?
7. How do cultural preferences influence type and location of agriculture?
8. How widespread is pastoral nomadism?
9. How much do pastoral nomads rely on their animals? Does anything about their relationship surprise
you?
10. Compare and contrast Camels, goats, sheep and horses as used by pastoral nomads.
11. HOW do pastoral nomads migrate? (Think about transhumance and pasture)
12. What are some reasons pastoral nomadism is declining?
13. Explain shifting cultivation including:
 Steps involved
 Other terms used
 Crops
 Concentric pattern of crops
14. What are some reasons pastoral nomadism is declining?
15. What is INTENSIVE about intensive agriculture?
16. Describe wet rice farming
17. Know the terms sawah, paddy, chaff, threshing, winnowing, hull and double cropping.
18. Why isn’t wet rice dominant in some Asian regions? What do they grow instead?
19. Describe crop rotation.
20. Explain the Chinese transition toward and away from agricultural communes.
21. Explain plantation farming including:
 Purpose
 Market
 Relationship between location, workers, and management
 Crops
22. What is the MAIN difference between commercial farming and subsistence farming?
23. What is an agribusiness?
24. Describe mixed farming.
25. Describe crop rotation. Distinguish it from shifting cultivation
26. Summarize the map on page 367.
27. What is truck farming and what crops are produced?
28. What is specialty farming and what crops are produced?
29. What is a milkshed?
30. Summarize the diagram on page 368 and the map on page 369.
31. What are the greatest challenges to dairy farmers?
32. What are the most common commercial grains?
33. What is THE most common commercial grain?
34. Who grows the most wheat?
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35. What two machines contribute to large-scale grain farming?
36. What is the difference between winter wheat and spring wheat?
37. What are the three largest wheat-production regions in Anglo North America?
38. WHERE are the world’s Mediterranean climates?
39. What defines a Mediterranean climate?
40. What crops are grown in Mediterranean regions?
41. What is Horticulture? (Why is there so much horticulture in California?)
42. How does livestock ranching work?
43. Why was the Chisholm Trail so important?
44. How did “range wars” influence cattle ranching in the United States?
45. Why does ranching continue to decline in the US?
46. Would you describe ranching as intensive or extensive? Why?
47. Summarize the map on page 373, as well as the text below.
Key Issue 10.4
1. What are two reasons for increasing crop yields in developing countries?
2. According to Esther Boserup, subsistence farmers can increase yield in two ways. What are they?
3. What are the five basic stages of intensification of farmland?
4. What supplies do subsistence farmers need in order to raise productivity?
5. What do they sell to get these supplies?
6. How does this lead to an endless cycle of undernourishment?
7. How do men and women “split” responsibilities in a country like Kenya? (Do they split them
fairly?)
8. What are the three causes of Africa’s food supply struggle?
9. What are the three most popular drug crops? Where are they grown?
10. How does drug use in the developed world lead to undernourishment in the developing world?
11. What are four factors that have led to a doubling of food prices in the last 10 years?
12. Asian carp? Please explain.
13. Why has improvement in agricultural yield hurt farmers in the developing world? (p. 378)
14. What are three things the US government does to support farmers?
15. [Summarize the VonThunen model]
16. Thinking question: What are three ways the Von Thunen model mirrors the Burgess Model?
17. What are four ways to increase food supply? (p380?)
18. Summarize the map on page 380.
19. Too much water and too little water can both lead to crop failure. How?
20. What third factor also leads to a decrease in available farmland?
21. Why do we NEED aquaculture if we want to increase fish supply?
22. What happened in the 70s and 80s that forestalled predicted global famine?
23. What are two ways the green revolution contributed to increased agricultural yield?
24. What are the benefits and drawbacks for Sub-Saharan Africans of Genetically modified crops?
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25. What are the three principle practices of sustainable agriculture?
26. Who is the world leader in Organic farming?