AP Human Geography
Unit 5 Syllabus
Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13-17%)
Rubenstein Chapter 10: Agriculture
November 2nd
November 3rd
November 4th
November 5th
November 6th
November 9th
November 10th
November 12th
Video Guns Germs & Steel Part 1
Preview Map of Africa
Origins of Agriculture
Map of Neolithic Agricultural
Revolution
Major Agricultural Regions
Agriculture LDC’s
Power of Place Vietnam: Fertile
Dreams
Agricultural Products Research
Discuss Article
Agriculture in NC
Agricultural Products Research
Reading Quiz 10.1 – 10.3
Agriculture in MDC’s
Von Thunen’s Model
Apply Von Thunen’s Model to
Durham
Agricultural Products
Presentations
Power of Place: Northern Japan:
Protecting the Harvest
Read & Take Notes on 10.1
Read & Take Notes on 10.2
Read article: “The Future of
Traditional Agriculture” by
Donald Innis
Read & Take Notes on 10.3
Read & Take Notes Chapter 5 in
workbook
Agricultural Products Presentations
next class
Read 10.4
Current Food Articles TBD
Complete Multiple Choice in
Quiz Map of Africa
Sustainable Agriculture
Workbook
Green Revolution
Vocab & Review Questions
Read & Take Notes on 9.1
Unit 5 Exam (60/40) 2 FRQs
* 10.1 = Chapter 10, Key Issue 1
* LATE WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. Please plan accordingly.
At the end of this unit you should have:
- Read Chapter 10 in your textbook and take notes
- Read Chapter Five (Agriculture) in your workbook
- Completed the Multiple choice in your workbook
- Defined the vocabulary on the back of this sheet using your workbook
- Learned the location of examples of various types of farming
-Complete chapter review questions
Essential Questions:
1.
Where did agriculture originate?
2.
Where are agricultural regions in LDC’s?
3.
Where are agricultural regions in MDC’s?
4.
Why do farmers face economic difficulties?
5.
Why are resources reusable?
What should you know, understand and be able to do at the end of this unit?
1. Trace and analyze the origins and development of agriculture.
2. Analyze the characteristics of agricultural systems and production regions
3. Analyze models of land use and agricultural types
4. Analyze the modern commercial agricultural settings and their impact on the
environment and quality of live
V. Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13-17%)
Development and diffusion of agriculture
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Major agricultural production regions
Agricultural systems associated with major bio-climatic zones
Variations within major zones and effects of markets
Linkages and flows among regions of food production and consumption
Rural land use and settlement patterns
Models of land use, including von Thünen's model
Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types
Modern commercial agriculture: the Third Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution and the beginning of the biotechnologic revolution
Characteristics of the third revolution: blending of primary, secondary, and tertiary activities,
intensification of mechanization, and development of biotechnology
Spatial organization of industrial agriculture
Diffusion of industrial agriculture
Future food supplies and environmental impacts of agriculture - hopes and fears
Review Questions: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences and hand in on
the day of the test.
1. Explain Carl Sauer’s differentiation between vegetative planting and seed planting.
2. The Columbian Exchange is what “happening” in world agriculture? How did this lead to
the Second Agricultural Revolution?
3. What are the characteristics of the Second Agricultural Revolution? In what region of the
world did this occur? Why only there?
4. Compare and contrast the following rural settlement patterns. Explain how these patterns
relate to land use.
a. linear villages
b. cluster villages
c. dispersed settlements
5. Identify the global agricultural regions. Explain how each of the following correlates with
the region.
a. climate
b. terrain
c. culture
d. relationship to world markets
6. What are the characteristics of the Third Agricultural Revolution? Why did it become the
Green Revolution?
7. Construct a chart detailing the positive and negatives views of the Green Revolution.
8. Around the world, agribusiness is growing. Explain agribusiness.
9. What impact does agribusiness have on subsistence farming?
Agriculture Terms
For each vocabulary term write the definition and either give the significance or an
example. This should be done on index cards.
1. agribusiness
2. agriculture
3. agricultural hearths
4. biotechnology
5. cereal grain
6. Colombian Exchange
7. commercial agriculture
8. crop rotation
9. desertification
10. dispersed settlement pattern
11. double cropping
12. enclosure
13. Green Revolution
14. horticulture
15. intensive agriculture
16. intensive subsistence agriculture
17. location theory
18. long-lot survey system
19. milkshed
20. mixed crop and livestock farming
21. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
22. nomadism
23. organic agriculture
24. paddy
25. plantation farming
26. post industrial societies
27. primary sector v. quaternary sector v. secondary sector v. tertiary sector
28. primogeniture
29. ranching
30. Second Agricultural Revolution
31. seed agriculture
32. shifting cultivation (swidden agriculture)
33. slash and burn agricultural
34. subsistence agriculture
35. sustainable agriculture
36. Third Agricultural Revolution
37. truck farming
38. vegetative planting
39. “world breadbasket”