• What country serves as
a gateway between
Africa and the Middle
East?
Warmup
• Overgrazing, deforestation, and agricultural
mismanagement are all significant causes of
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Crop failure
Nationalism
Urban growth
Topsoil loss
Salinization
A COUPLE OF NOTES
• Gattaca tomorrow @4:00
• Bring back your class registration signed by
your parents by Friday
• School trip student/parents meeting today at
6:00 in B119
• Notes 11-1 due Monday (2 pages)
Take out your test answer sheets
• Circle the numbers of the 5 most missed
questions
• Box the numbers of the 5 least missed
questions
1
The Green Revolution included which of the
following?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Irrigation projects
Increased use of biocides
The development of “miracle seeds”
Hybridization of methods
All of the above
2
3 - This group probably discovered
agriculture.
4
5 - Government money to help
farmers if there is under- or overproduction.
6 - Too much irrigation can lead to
______________.
7
8 - Fully define the Green
Revolution
• The invention and rapid diffusion of more
productive agricultural techniques during the
1970s and 1980s.
• These techniques involved higher-yield (high
production) seeds and chemical fertilizers.
9
_____________ agriculture is practiced mainly
in stage 2 countries, while _____________
agriculture is practiced in stage 4 countries.
A. Traditional…communal
B. Commercial…subsistence
C. Tertiary…secondary
D. Subsistence…commercial
E. Traditional…subsistence
10
11 - How people lived before
agriculture.
12 - Caused the first mechanization
of agriculture.
13 - Negative Effects of the GR
• Decreased crop variations.
• Requires heavy machinery, therefore
excluding many poor farmers.
• Many new crops are resistant to traditional
pesticides.
• LDC farmers enter a cycle of dependence on
multinational corporations like Monsanto.
• Does not address economic inequality.
13 - Positive Effects of the GR
• More food = more people who can be fed.
• New crops are more responsive to irrigation
and to petrochemical fertilizers.
• Postpones the predictions of Thomas Malthus.
• Reduction in poverty in many regions,
particularly Asia.
14
Von Thunen
15
16
17 - According to Von Thunen, the
most important factor for
agricultural location
18
• What topic we discussed this chapter has to
do with biotechnology?
• Bio - ?
19 - Tyson is an example
of_________________.
20
• Slash-and-burn agriculture
21
Physical Geography
Human Geography
22
Secondary
activities
Primary
activities
23
• Slash-and-burn agriculture
24 - Most of these are located in
__________________.
25
26
27 – How could this be bad?
28 - Seasonal migration between
highlands and lowlands
29
• This effect makes possible the diffusion of
ideas and technology around the world.
30 - Type of agriculture in which
people are impressed by the size of
your goat/sheep/camel/alpaca herd.