APHUG Chapter 11 Study Guide
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| 316641474 | Bio- genetically engineering now allows the growing of new strains in more acid regions of the Plains States to meet the demand what industry? | Bio-diesel fuel | |
| 316641475 | Organic food is found in what areas | all areas | |
| 316641476 | Demand for organic food is greatest in what regions? | core regions | |
| 316641477 | What is not an example of a primary economic activity? | corn flake production | |
| 316641478 | Guatemala's agricultural sector produces 22.7% of the country's GDP and employs what percent of the labor force? | 50% | |
| 316641479 | The ratio of percent of labor force to percent of GDP in the agricultural sector of Canada indicates that Canada's agricultural sector is ......... intensive? | machine | |
| 316641480 | Hunter-gatherers living in the vicinity of the Pacific Ocean specialized in what? | salmon fishing | |
| 316641481 | According to Carl Sauer, the earliest plant domestication was ...........? | probably involved planting root crops | |
| 316641482 | Where do most scholars believe that seed cultivation occurred? | the Fertile Crescent | |
| 316641483 | According to Spencer and Thomas, each agricultural hearth was associated with a local grouping of plants. For example, taro, yams, and bananas are associated with the ........ hearth. | Southeast Asian | |
| 316641484 | Organic food in the United States now constitutes what percent of the total food production. | 2% | |
| 316641485 | Corn of the American "Corn Belt" originated where? | Central America | |
| 316641486 | Where were goats domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Zagros Mountain region? | the Fertile Crescent | |
| 316641487 | Cattle were domesticated in and came to be an important cultural feature of where? | South Asia | |
| 316641488 | Of the 148 species of large herbivore...... have been domesticated and all of these were domesticated over 4,500 years ago. | 14 | |
| 316641489 | What is not an example of a hunting and gathering group that still existed in the early 2000s? | the Bantu of Southern AFrica | |
| 316641490 | Shifting Cultivaton | A form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after short periods of crop production | |
| 316641491 | Milpa agriculture involves the ....... method of clearing fields. | burning | |
| 316641492 | About how many people practice shifting cultivation in the world today? | between 150 million and 200 million | |
| 316641493 | In areas of shifting cultivation the population cannot have what? | a high density | |
| 316641494 | What would colonial powers make subsistence farmers do? | grow cash crops in addition to food crops the farmer needed to survive | |
| 316641495 | Before the intervention of Europeans, the societies practicing subsistence framing were quite equal because what? | land was held in communial ownership | |
| 316641496 | The Second Agricultural Revolution can generally be traced to Europe within what time frame? | seventeenth and eighteenth century | |
| 316641497 | What commodity would be found closest to the market town in von Thunen's model? | milk | |
| 316641498 | In von Thunen's model there was a concentric circle of forest around the city because of what? | it would provide lumber and firewood | |
| 316641499 | Geographer Lee Liu studying the spatial patterns of agriculture in parts of China, found soils in intensively used fields near villages that were what? | fertile and productive | |
| 316641500 | By 1992, the most widely grown crop variety on Earth was a product of the GReen Revolution called IR36, which was a variety of what? | rice | |
| 316641501 | In the 1940's, American philanthropists funded research on what crop? | corn (maize) | |
| 316641502 | The average size of a family farm in China is how many acres? | .5 | |
| 316641503 | Town-and-range system | the rectangular land division scheme in the United States adopted after the American Revolution | |
| 316641504 | THe basic unit of the township-and-range system, the section, has an area of what? | 1 square mile | |
| 316641505 | What is the most prevalent rural residential pattern in the world's agricultural areas? | nucleated | |
| 316641506 | The form of villages still existing in many rural landscapes that are reminders of a turbulent past is what? | walled | |
| 316641507 | The Spanish invaders of Middle America, centuries ago ,laid out villages and towns in what form? | grid form | |
| 316641508 | In villages everywhere, what is social stratification reflected by? | the range and quality of village houses. | |
| 316641509 | The functional differentiation of farm villages world-wide are to what? | Western cultures | |
| 316641510 | Poorer countries, producing such cash as sugar, are what? | are at the mercy of the purchasing countries that set the prices | |
| 316641511 | 25% of the world sugar production takes place outside of the tropical plantation region and is produced from what? | sugar beets | |
| 316641512 | Much of the cotton purchased by the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Japan is grown where? | the United States | |
| 316641513 | Where were rubber trees first tapped? | in northern South America's Amazon Basin | |
| 316641514 | The colonial powers transplanted rubber trees to where from Brazil? | Southeast Asia | |
| 316641515 | Today 70% of coffee production is in where? | Middle and South America | |
| 316641516 | Fair trade coffee buyers certify what % of the retail price of their coffee goes to the coffee growers. | 40% | |
| 316641517 | What agricultural activities is widespread in the northern eastern U.S. and northwestern Europe? | dairying | |
| 316641518 | What countries are fairly small areas of wheat population still have major export trade? | Argentina and Australia | |
| 316641519 | What country is the world's leading exporter of rice? | the United States | |
| 316641520 | Rice cultivation in Southeast Asia is largely a ....... activity. | subsistence | |
| 316641521 | The form of agriculture that refers to a particular climate is ........ | Mediterranean | |
| 316641522 | What area does not have a Mediterranean-type climate? | southern Florida | |
| 316641523 | In recent years, many wooded areas in ...... have been deforested to provide beef for hamburgers for fast-food chains in the United States. | Central and South America | |
| 316641524 | Hunters and gatherers cannot live in permanent settlements. True or False. | False | |
| 316641525 | Agriculture started in one location and then diffused all over the world. True or False. | False | |
| 316641526 | Animals were domesticated in different regions of the world at different times. True or False. | True | |
| 316641527 | FArmers of the Nile Valley practice shifting cultivation. True or False | False | |
| 316641528 | Shifting cultivation involves shifting crops in small permanent fields. True or False | False | |
| 316641529 | Destruction of subsistence farming communities can cause a breakdown in the culture of the people. True or False. | True | |
| 316641530 | IR8 rice, a genetic cross of Chinese and indonesian strains, was an early result of the Third Agricultural Revolution. True or False | True | |
| 316641531 | Because of the Green Revolution, today most famine results from political instability rather than failure of crop production. True or False | True | |
| 316641532 | The expansion of crop production for export in Latin America has increasingly marginalized subsistence farmers. True or False | True | |
| 316641533 | The U.S. township-and-range land division scheme was devised in the 1950's. True or False. | False | |
| 316641534 | As societies become more complex, functional differences are seen in buildings. | True | |
| 316641535 | Cattle ranching in North and South America shows a Thunian pattern lying in the peripheral areas with consumption in the cities. | True | |
| 316641536 | Even after the end of colonialism, many plantations in the world are still owned by Europeans or Americans. True or False | True | |
| 316641537 | Very few of Southeast Asia's rice farmers are subsistence farmers. True or False. | False | |
| 316641538 | Wine production is a feature characteristic of Mediterranean agriculture around the world. True or False. | True |