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Agriculture Review 1
Test Description: Agriculture
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1) A young family in Japan is working in Tokyo while still maintaining their cultural ties to the land. The farming tied to this culture is
A
Intensive wet rice
B
grainfarming
C
Intensive non rice
D
shifting cultivation
2) According to Von Thunen, market- oriented gardens and milk producers were located in the first ring for all but which of the following reasons
A
quality of soil
B
proximity to market
C
delivery cost
D
pershibility
3) Von Thunen’s model can best be used to explain the location of which of the following types of agriculture?
A
Dairying in the Northeast United States
B
Ranching in the dry lands of North America
C
Mediterranean agriculture in Greece
D
Intensive subsistence Rice farming in Asia
4) In modifying the Von Thunen model. What ring is no longer necessary in its original place due to the invention of electricity?
A
Livestock
B
grain fallow
C
Forest
D
Perishables
5) Soil specialists must work to overcome the negative effects of ______ associated with agricultural production.
A
pesticides and fertilization
B
salinization and topsoil loss
C
fertilization and salinization
D
the Green Revolution and agribusiness
6) DDT is an example of a ____ that has had negative effects all the way through the food chain.
A
bacteria
B
pesticide
C
GMO
D
fungicide
7) __ is a common cause of decreasing farmland in rapidly growing urban areas
A
Topsoil loss
B
Urban Sprawl
C
Agribusiness
D
Industrializatoin
8) In arid climates, like southern California and the Middle East, _______ can cause the soil to become salty and infertile.
A
topsoil loss
B
salinization
C
erosion
D
saltation
9) Agribusiness has had all of the following effects on agriculture EXCEPT
A
the farm in no longer the center of agricultural activity,
B
TNCs often control agricultural activity abroad
C
family farmers, through increasing technology, are producing goods for the global economy
D
agriculture has become a multileverl process of production, processing, markerting, and consumption
10) ____is/are widespread in semiarid climates throughout the world.
A
rice paddies
B
slash and burn agriculture
C
ranching
D
dairying
11) According to von Thunen, the regional geography of agriculture is determined by
A
material inputs
B
landarea
C
climate
D
rent
12) Ranching is a good example of which type of agricultural system?
A
controlled agriculture)
B
extensive commercial cultivation
C
capital-intensive agriculture
D
intensive susbsistence cultivation
13) Which of the following was NOT a location of independent plant and animal domestication?
A
California
B
india
C
Peru
D
Iraq
14) The Green Revolution greatly increased crop production in some countries
A
as a replacement for deindustrialization
B
without adverse side effects
C
by encouraging the cultivation of local crop varieties
D
with some adverse side effects
15) Slash-and-Burn agriculture is
A
not sustainable
B
typical for tropical forests
C
practiced in high mountain regions
D
always completely sustainable
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