Unit 6 Questions
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The overgrazing of pasture areas in arid climates has caused which problem?
a. Desertification
d. Soil erosion
b. Mass starvation
e. Soil loss
c. Global warming
2. Which of the following regions produces the least amount of wheat?
a. France
d. Ukraine
b. United States
e. Greece
c. Canada
3. In which of the following areas has desertification had the strongest negative impact on food production?
a. eastern China
d. Peru
b. Mexico
e. India
c. the African Sahel
4. Grain raised in the United States is used today primarily as
a. an export to foreign countries
d. raw materials for various industries
b. a source of fuel
e. livestock feed
c. human food
5. The clearing of rain forests for agriculture frequently results in
a. long-term productive farmland
d. an increase in the size of the ozone hole
b. a shift to animal raising
e. better managed commercial forests
c. large scale immigration
6. The first agriculturalists were
a. European entrepreneurs
d. commercial farmers
b. also ranchers
e. most likely males
c. also hunter-gatherers
7. Agriculture practiced in California differs from forms practiced in other Mediterranean agricultural regions
because in California
a. grapes are grown for wine production
d. wheat is grown in winter as a cover crop
b. farms rely on local labor
e. farms use more irrigation
c. farms are smaller
8. Which area of the world was the first to domesticate cattle, sheep and goats?
a. Northern China
d. Northeastern India
b. Northeastern Africa
e. Northwestern South America
c. Central America
9. Why is the traditional classification of agriculture as a primary economic activity a problem when considering
the geography of agriculture?
a. Traditional methods of farming are
d. Agricultural employment is such a small
dissappearing.
fraction of the labor force in industrialized
countries that agriculture can no longer be
thought of as a primary economic activity.
b. Unlike mining, forestry, and other primary e. Modern farmers use machinery.
activities, agriculture has not been affected
by industrialization.
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c. Modern farmers are engaged in
production, research, marketing and some
manufacturing of their products.
A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in which of the following regions?
a. China
d. Southeast Asia
b. the Middle East
e. the United States Midwest
c. Western Europe
All of the following are modern states existing in land postulated to be agricultural hearths EXCEPT
a. India
d. Ethiopia
b. England
e. China
c. Iraq
During the first half of the twentieth century, which of the following facilitated the transportation of beef over
long distances to global markets?
a. Airplanes
d. High-speed railroads
b. Commercial canning
e. Refrigerated ships
c. Irradiation of food
___________ is (are) widespread in semiarid climates throughout the world.
a. Dairying
d. Tropical plantations
b. Ranching
e. Rice paddies
c. Slash-and-burn agriculture
The land survey system that makes use of natural features to mark irregular parcels of land is called
a. the township and range survey system
d. the long-lot survey system
b. the metes and bounds approach
e. primogeniture
c. rectangular survey system
The Industrial Revolution transformed Western agriculture
a. with biotechnology
d. through mechanization and the creation of
new markets
b. by eliminating plant hybidization
e. through technological and religious
change
c. by eliminating agricultural pests
The Green Revolution has had the least impact on people who live in
a. southeast Asia
d. China
b. India
e. the Philipines
c. Sub-Saharan Africa
Which of the following was NOT a location of independent plant and animal domestication?
a. China
d. Iraq
b. California
e. India
c. Peru
Which of the following export-oriented cash crops is often grown in formerly European colonial regions?
a. Corn
d. Sorghum
b. Millet
e. Wheat
c. Rubber
The modern global geography of agriculture is determined by
a. soil
d. all of the above
b. cultural traditions
e. Only (A) and (B)
c. climate
Which type of agriculture is most likely to be found on the Bolivian plateau?
a. Pastoralism
d. Slash and burn
b. Mediterranean
e. Plantation
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c. Truck
Agribusiness has had all of the following effects on agriculture, EXCEPT
a. TNCs often control agricultural activity
d. agriculture has become a multilevel
abroad
process of production, processing,
marketing, and consumption.
b. family farmers, through increasing
e. Some corporations essentially dictate
technology, are producing most of the
agricultural production in other countries
goods for the global economy.
besides their own.
c. the farm is no longer the center of
agricultural activity
Which of the following best explains the concept of “shifting cultivation”?
a. moving fields from year to year in order to d. planting one major crop on a large area of
find good soil
land
b. using fertilizers to improve soil
e. planting different crops in the same field
to replenish the soils nutrients.
c. moving animals from higher elevations in
the summer to lower elevations in the
winter
One difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture is that with commercial agriculture
a. less machinery is used
d. farm sizes grow smaller
b. more people work in the primary sector of e. more extensive use is made of feritilizers
the economy
c. crop yields are smaller
What type of survey pattern of farming would be found in the Louisiana or Mississippi Delta region of the
United States?
a. Nucleated format
d. Dispersed village
b. Metes and bounds
e. Long lots
c. Township and range
Which of the following includes the world’s earliest centers of plant domestication?
a. Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle
d. Australia, New Zealand, China
East
b. British Isles, Scandinavia, United States
e. Russia, China, Latin America
c. Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South
Africa
All of the following are associated with the second agricultural revolution EXCEPT
a. recombinant DNA splicing
d. the industrial revolution
b. improved food storage capacity
e. the enclosure movement
c. the invention of barbed wire
In which of the following areas was wheat most probably domesticated earliest?
a. Southeastern Turkey
d. The plateau of central Mexico
b. Southern Italy
e. Eastern China
c. Northern Libya
In what zone of von Thunen’s model would the fruit production method of farming best fit?
a. Commercial Grain
d. Market gardening
b. Livestock ranching
e. Livestock fattening
c. Dairy
Which of the following accurately describes the evolution of food production from the earliest development to
the latest?
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a. seed agriculturem, the Columbian
d. the Columbian exchange, vegetative
Exchange, vegetative agriculture.
planting, seed agriculture
b. seed agriculture, vegitative planting, the
e. vegetative agriculture, seed agriculture,
Columbian exchange
the Colombian Exchange
c. vegetative planting, the Columbian
exchange, seed planting
Which area of the world would most likely lead the others in the production of wheat?
a. Central Brazil
d. Interior Australia
b. Central Africa
e. Ukraine or Eastern Europe
c. Southeast Asia
Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for
the market is called
a. subsistence agriculture
d. shifting-field agriculture
b. sedentary cultivation
e. plantation farming
c. hunting and gathering
Maize or Corn originated in which agricultural hearth?
a. Northern Europe
d. Southern Mexico
b. Northern Peru
e. Southwest Asia and Northern India
c. Northeastern North America
In which of the following countries is terracing LEAST likely to be used by farming groups to create
additional space and minimize erosion on steep slopes?
a. Greece
d. Peru
b. Niger
e. The Phillipines
c. Nepal
A farmer in China is statistically most likey to be a(n)
a. intensive subsistence farmer
d. nomadic herder
b. hunter and gatherer
e. extensive subsistence farmer
c. shifting cultivator
Ranching is a good example of which type of agricultural system?
a. Capital-intensive agriculture
d. Intensive subsistence cultivation
b. Controlled agriculture
e. Labor-intensive agriculture
c. Extensive commercial cultivation
Which of the following problems is most associated with the African Sahel?
a. Desertification
d. Flooding
b. Deforestation
e. Water pollution
c. Air pollution
A farmer who produces only enough food for the immediate family is practicing
a. subsistence agriculture
d. seed agriculture
b. shifting cultivation
e. vegetative planting
c. intensive agriculture
Which statement accurately describes the recent trend(s) in agriculture in the United States?
a. The number of family-owned farms
d. The cost of converting a conventional
continues to increase.
farm into a farm growning certified
organic crops is relatively quick and easy.
b. The total revenue of agricultural sales is
e. Sustainable farms make up only a small
becoming more concentrated in fewer
percentage of total agricultural sales and
large corporate farms.
their numbers are declining.
c. The average size of farms is decreasing.
____ 39. Biotechnology, or the process of using living organisms to produce or change plant or animal products, is an
integral part of which agricultural revolution?
a. Third agricultural revolution
d. Second agricultural revolution
b. Open-lot system
e. Plantation agriculture
c. First agricultural revolution
____ 40. The Tuareg people of the Sahara and their animals seasonally migrate to the higher lands in the summer and
the valleys in the winter. This is an example of
a. dairy farming
d. livestock ranching
b. transhumance
e. livestock fattening
c. pastoral nomadism
____ 41. Which of the follwoing phrases would best fin the Second Agricultural Revolution?
a. The Second Agricultural Revolution
d. The Second Agricultural Revolution
allowed farmers to redesign crops to grow
prompted farmers to develop new crops.
in nonnative climates.
b. The Second Agricultural Revolution
e. The Second Agricultural Revolution saw
meant more profits for farmers due to less
the beginning of seed agriculture.
human capital being needed.
c. The Second Agricultural Revolution
brought mechanization into the farming
process.
____ 42. Increasing global food production by expanding the amount of land under cultivation is limited by the fact
that
a. governments are unwilling to give up
d. most of the world’s arable land is already
public lands
under cultivation
b. few young people want to be farmers
e. global warming has put many previously
cultivated areas under water
c. technology is lacking in many countries
____ 43. Which of the following is an example of the earliest type of plant cultivation?
a. creating hybrids of wild plants by grafting d. using fertilizer from animal droppings to
the top of one plant on to the base of
increase the potency of the soil
another.
b. cross pollinating certain species of plant in e. dividing taro roots to clone the original
order to produce more food or make it
plant
more disease resistance
c. using corn seeds to plant across a wide
area
____ 44. Which crop, grown in the Philippines, started the Third Agricultural Revolution?
a. Manioc
d. Sorghum
b. Corn
e. Rice
c. Wheat
____ 45. Which probably arose first in human history?
a. Seed agriculture
d. Pastoral nomadism
b. Slash-and-burn farming
e. Hunting and gathering
c. Shifting cultivation
____ 46. Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding agriculture and the United States economy?
a. Wheat production in the United States has d. United States food exports have declined
remained stagnant since the start of the
steadily since World War II
20th century.
b. The number of farms in the U.S. has
decreased in the last 50 years.
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e. Farming is now an outsourced process in
the United States, where nearly all
foodstuffs are imported from foreign
farms.
c. Agriculture is no longer an important
piece of the U.S. economy.
Which of the following may NOT be categorized as a primary economic activity?
a. forestry
d. raising animals
b. fishing
e. refining petroleum into gasoline
c. agriculture
The use of large amounts of land to grow food to feed only the farmer’s family is
a. extensive subsistence agriculture.
d. extensive commercial farming.
b. intensive commercial agriculture.
e. intensive subsistence agriculture.
c. ranching.
Geographer Esther Bosrup would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
a. Population growth will outpace the growth d. Population growth is unrelated to the food
of food supply.
supply.
b. Subsistence farmes exist in isolation rather e. The food supply is adapted by farmers to
than in community.
meet the changing population.
c. Farmers cannot affect the level of food
supply.
Which of the following crops is least likely to be planted on a plantation?
a. Bananas
d. Corn
b. Coffee
e. Rubber
c. Sugar Cane
According to the Von Thunen model of rural land use, which of the following agricultural products would be
most likely produced furthest from its London marketplace?
a. Wool and hides
d. Feed grains
b. Butter, chees and eggs
e. Fruits and vegetables
c. Wheat and flour
Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following in modern agriculture?
a. The development of high yield grains and d. The end of famine in the world
the expansion of cultivated areas.
b. The construction of new irrigation systems e. An increase in the circulation of
and a reduction in the use of fertilizers
investment capital to help the poorest
farmers
c. the loss of prime agricultural land and
smaller yields from grain crops
Which of the following was NOT a commodity first raised in the Americas and traded to the Eastern
Hemisphere during the Columbian Exchange?
a. maize (corn)
d. wheat
b. beans
e. squash
c. potatoes
In arid climates, like southern California and the Middle East, ___________ can cause the soil to become
salty and infertile.
a. topsoil loss
d. saltation
b. salinization
e. droughts
c. erosion
____ 55. The process of growing crops in subsistence areas for sale in more developed countries is what type of
farming?
a. Intensive subsistence agriculture
d. Plantation agriculture
b. Slash-and-burn farming
e. Shifting cultivation
c. Commercial agriculture
____ 56. Farming in the United States, in particular, has experienced what pattern?
a. Debt-for-nature swap
d. More sustainable yields
b. Tragedy of the commons
e. Movement to agricultural industrialization
c. More work with intertillage practices
____ 57. Which of the following does NOT characterize modern industrial agriculture?
a. global exchange
d. participation by farmers in less developed
countries.
b. signing agreements with buyer-processors e. specialized crops
c. prices met by individual needs of farmers
____ 58. What is the process called of splitting existing plants into two and replanting both parts to propogate crops?
a. Vegetative planting
d. Subsistence agriculture
b. Plantation agriculture
e. Seed agriculture
c. Aquaculture
____ 59. Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they
a. were agile climbers on the hillsides of the d. traveled long distances from their home
fertile crescent
base
b. were engaged in collecting plant resources e. knew how to achieve control over their
environment
c. were interested in varying the diets of
their families
____ 60. Which of the following statements accurately applies to agribusiness?
I. Agribusiness is associeated with the vertical and horizontal integration of the processes involved in the
agricultural process.
II.Agribusiness involves the increasingly global division of the agricultural production process.
III. Individual farmers do not play a role in agribusiness, only corporate conglomerates.
IV. Agribusiness is contributing to agricultural industrialization.
a. I, II and IV
d. I, II, III and IV
b. II, III and IV
e. I, III and IV
c. I and II
____ 61. Why is double-cropping or even triple-cropping important?
a. It allows subsistence farmers to produce
d. It provides consumers with more choices
more income from selling their products.
of foods to eat.
b. It gives producers profit margins to meet e. It allows farmer the freedom to rotate
demands of investors.
crops without harming the soil.
c. It allows farmers to meet the demands of
ever-increasing population.
____ 62. Nomadic Pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced
a. in the tropical regions of Africa and Asia d. in the hinterlands of Australia
b. by Native American buffalo hunters
e. by people who shift location in pursuit of
rain clouds
c. in the dry regions of Africa and Asia
____ 63. Dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by
a. an increase in the urban workforce
d. substantial increases in the amount of land
under cultivation
b. an increase in the use of energy and
e. an increase in the agricultural workforce
technology
c. global warming
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The map above shows corn production for selected U.S. states. Which conclusion can be made based on the
map?
a. Corn is a high-bulk food and therefore
d. Corn is not grown much in the West due
must be grown closer to urban centers.
to dietary preferences.
b. Corn is linked with the livestock-fattening e. Corn is a staple food in the American diet.
region of the United States.
c. Corn is not that profitable a crop due to
the influence of ethanol and other
biofuels.
In which of the following areas is livestock farming most likely to be sold in the domestic market?
a. the Middle East
d. Argentina
b. New Zealand
e. the United States
c. Uruguay
The Green Revolution greatly increased crop production in some countries
a. with some adverse side effects.
d. by encouraging the cultivation of local
crop varieties.
b. without adverse side effects.
e. as a replacement for deindustrialization.
c. by introducing organic agricultural
methods.
In which of the following countries is the largest percentage of workers employed in the primary sector?
a. Mexico
d. the United Kingdom
b. China
e. the United States
c. Nigeria
Which of the following are both forms of subsistenc farming?
a. truck farming and shifting cultivation
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d. hunting and gathering and pastoral
nomadism
e. shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism
b. dairy farming and plantation farming
c. grain farming and livestock ranching
Two independent seed agricultural hearths that originated in the Western Hemisphere were
a. southern Mexico and Peru
d. western India and northern China
b. North America and the Caribbean
e. Southern Mexico and North America
c. Peru and western Africa
Which of the following is the best example of “double cropping”?
a. planting two crops in the same field at the d. planting two crops consecutively in the
same time
same field in a single year
b. raising crops solely to feed animals on the e. planting a crop that goes along with
property
another crop grown in the area
c. alternating crops in a single field from
year to year
The seasonal movement from highlands to lowland pastures is known as
a. transhumance
d. mixed crop and livestock farming
b. slash-and-burn agriculture
e. Mediterranean agriculture
c. crop rotation
Economic activities that involve the extraction of natural resources, such as lumbering, fishing, mining, and
agriculture, are called
a. subsistence activities
d. tertiary economic activities
b. primary economic activities
e. secondary economic activities
c. organic activities
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Which of the following types of agriculture is largely practiced in the Argentinian region of the Pampas?
a. fruit farming
d. dairy farming
b. grain farming
e. livestock farming
c. plantation farming
____ 74. The earliest form of agriculture was
a. seed planting
d. the Green Revolution
b. pastoralism
e. agribusiness
c. vegetative planting
____ 75. Which of the following people most likely practices intensive subsistence agriculture?
a. Nomadic herders in North Africa
d. large Dairy farmers in Switzerland
b. a Corn farmer in Iowa
e. a rice farmer in Southern China
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c. Slash and burn farmers in Amazonian
villages
The “world’s breadbasket” is located in
a. the prairies of North America
d. the coastal areas of India
b. northern China
e. Australia
c. the pampas of South America
Von Thunen emphasized which of the following factors in his model of agricultural land use?
a. Transportation cost
d. Seasonal fluctuations in prices of farm
products
b. Fertilizer cost
e. Labor cost
c. Machinery cost
Which of the following is the best example of “transhumance”?
a. Potatoes, Corn, and Tomatoes being
d. Villagers moving cattle from mountain to
introduced to Europe as a result of the
lower elevations seasonally.
Columbian Exchange.
b. Nomadic camel herders moving across
e. rice farming diffusing from China to India
North Africa.
c. Slash and burn farmers in Central Africa.
Labor-intensive intertillage is most likely to take place in areas where farmers practice
a. livestock farming
d. grain farming
b. pastoral nomadism
e. shifting cultivation
c. dairy farming
_____________ is a common cause of decreasing farmland in rapidly growing urban areas.
a. Loss of material inputs
d. Industrialization
b. Topsoil loss
e. Agribusiness
c. Urban sprawl
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The house shown above is most likely located in which of the following regions?
a. Central Africa
d. Northeastern Europe
b. Southern Africa
e. South Asia
c. Southeast Asia
____ 82. Slash-and-burn agriculture is
a. not sustainable
d. a relatively new invention
b. practiced in high, mountainous regions
e. typical for tropical forests
c. always completely sustainable
____ 83. Both shifting agriculturalists and commercial farmers practice crop rotation, but commercial farmers
a. are less likely to allow fields to remain
d. make less use of fertilizers
fallow
b. do not feed crops to their animals
e. do not distribute their workload evenly
over the year
c. do not raise livestock
____ 84. Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT
a. agricultural private enterprise
d. government land policy
b. political stability
e. colonization by individual pioneer
families
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c. physical barriers preventing communal
farming practices
DDT is an example of a ___________________ that has had negative effects all the way through the food
chain.
a. bacteria
d. fungicide
b. genetically modified organism
e. herbicide
c. pesticide
According to von Thunen, which of the following activities would take place in the outer most ring around a
market center?
a. animal grazing
d. dairy farming
b. forestry
e. raising field crops
c. market gardening
Which of the following statements best describes the impact of improvements in transportation systems on
agriculture?
a. Cuisines have become more regionalized. d. Subsistence farmers are given great
advantage
b. Local markets have become more
e. Individual farms have become more
important for dairy farmers.
diversified.
c. Corporate farms have gained a greater
advantage over family farms.
All of the following are assumptions in the classical von Thunen rural land use model EXCEPT
a. The land was flat throughout the rural
d. Transportation costs are unrelated to
plain.
distance.
b. More extensive land uses will develop
e. Rural land is equally productive regarless
farther from the city than intensive
of proximity to central city.
farming practices
c. There is only one marketplace
The majority of the world’s population that is involved in agriculture is involved in what type of agriculture?
a. Subsitence farming
d. Plantation agriculture
b. Mediterranean agriculture
e. Pastoral nomadism
c. Shifting cultivation
What is the primary difference between livestock ranching and livestock fattening?
a. Livestock fattening requires more human d. Livestock ranching requires more capital
labor than livestock ranching.
investment for feed products.
b. Livestock ranching has more profit per
e. Livestock fattening requires less feed per
head of cattle than livestock fattening.
head of cattle than livestock ranching.
c. Livestock ranching requires more space
than livestock fattening.
According to von Thunen, the regional geography of agriculture is determined by
a. urban marketing
d. rent
b. availability of material inputs
e. climate
c. land area
Early hunter and gatherer societies differed from early agricultural societies in that hunter and gatherer
societies were
a. more likely to practice polytheism
d. less likely to be characterized by gender
inequality
b. more likely to have job specialization
e. more likely to require more hours of work
per person
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c. less likely to base division of labor on
gender
Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
a. Production of cash crops for export
d. Sharecropping
b. Dependency on irrigation
e. Multicropping
c. Demand for wage laborers
Soil specialists must work to overcome the negative effects of _________________ associated with
agricultural production.
a. salinization and topsoil loss
d. pesticides and fertilization
b. topsoil loss and gentrification
e. fertilization and salinization
c. the Green Revolution and agribusiness
Refrigerated ships and railroad cars most directly benefitted the long-distance transportation to global markets
of
a. wheat
d. beef
b. cotton
e. rice
c. fruit
Which of the following is most likely to sell his/her/their crops/animals?
a. A rice farmer in southern China
d. A communal yam field in Kenya
b. Sheep herders in Libya
e. A wheat farmer in Canada
c. A potato farmer in Bolivia
Corn (maize) was first domesticated in
a. Central Australia
d. Central Mexico
b. Northern Argentina
e. the Canadian prarie
c. the Tibetan plateau
Which of the following is NOT a form of commercial farming?
a. Mediterranean agriculture
d. Fruit farming
b. Slash-and-burn farming
e. Livestock ranching
c. Grain farming
Three of the largest dairy regions in the United States are in the Northeast (New York and Pennsylvania), the
Upper Midwest (Wisconsin and Minnesota), and California. What explains this phenomenon?
a. There are more milk drinkers in these
d. The transportation systems are much
parts of the country than in other parts.
better in these areas.
b. The climates are more conducive to
e. Large urban centers are located in each
raising dairy cattle.
zone.
c. Industrial output is much greater due to
the crops produced in these regions.
Beef consumption is lowest in which of the following regions?
a. Romania
d. India
b. United States
e. China
c. Italy
Which of the following is not true of Commercial agriculture?
a. sells crops for a profit
d. leads to larger farm sizes
b. uses machinery for most of the work
e. exists primarily in MDCs
c. the most common form of agriculture
around the world
The effects of biotechnology
a. are positive because it allows for much
d. all of the above
greater agricultural yields.
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b. are somewhat unknown because research e. none of the above
still needs to be done.
c. are negative because its expense limits its
availability to all farmers across the globe
In the Mediterranean area, the most important cash crops are
a. rubber and tobacco
d. olives and grapes
b. tomatoes and lettuce
e. citrus fruits and tree nuts
c. cotton and sugar cane
Von Thunen’s model revolves around which of the following fundamental principles?
a. Access to transportation improves as one d. The climate in the area dictates the type of
moves closer to urban areas.
crops grown.
b. The fertility of soil decreases as one
e. The farmers in the area are all involved in
moves away from the urban area or
commercial agriculture, selling their
market.
products to a market located at the center.
c. In the village system, farmers are involved
in subsistence agriculture with an urban
area serving as a center point for culture.
Which of the following is true of hunting and gathering as an activity?
a. It does not have a gender-based division d. It has led to the depletion of natural
of labor.
resources.
b. It is limited to tropical areas.
e. It is pursued by less than one percent of
the current human population.
c. It is prevalent where resources are rich
and climate conditions not extreme.
Quarternary economic activities are those that
a. involve the production of fresh produce
d. transform raw materials into finished
for urban markets
products
b. involve the exchange of goods and the
e. extract natural resources from the
provision of services
environment
c. involve the collection, processing, and
manipulation of information.
The loss of the nutrient-rich top layer in soil is called
a. swidden
d. undernutrition
b. shifting cultivation
e. soil erosion
c. transhumance
In which of the following areas was rice probably domesticated earliest?
a. Mongolia
d. Japan
b. Southeast Asia
e. Central America
c. Northern China
The term swidden refers to a plot of land formed by what type of agriculture?
a. Transhumance
d. Open-lot system
b. Double cropping
e. Slash and burn
c. Truck Farming