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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
grainfarming
B
shifting cultivation
C
Intensive wet rice
D
Intensive non rice
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
proximity to market
B
delivery cost
C
pershibility
D
quality of soil
3) Von Thunen’s model can best be used to explain the location of which of the following types of agriculture?
A
Ranching in the dry lands of North America
B
Intensive subsistence Rice farming in Asia
C
Dairying in the Northeast United States
D
Mediterranean agriculture in Greece
4) In modifying the Von Thunen model. What ring is no longer necessary in its original place due to the invention of electricity?
A
Forest
B
grain fallow
C
Perishables
D
Livestock
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
the Green Revolution and agribusiness
D
fertilization and salinization
6) DDT is an example of a ____ that has had negative effects all the way through the food chain.
A
GMO
B
pesticide
C
bacteria
D
fungicide
7) __ is a common cause of decreasing farmland in rapidly growing urban areas
A
Topsoil loss
B
Industrializatoin
C
Urban Sprawl
D
Agribusiness
8) In arid climates, like southern California and the Middle East, _______ can cause the soil to become salty and infertile.
A
salinization
B
topsoil loss
C
erosion
D
saltation
9) Agribusiness has had all of the following effects on agriculture EXCEPT
A
family farmers, through increasing technology, are producing goods for the global economy
B
agriculture has become a multileverl process of production, processing, markerting, and consumption
C
the farm in no longer the center of agricultural activity,
D
TNCs often control agricultural activity abroad
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
rent
C
landarea
D
climate
12) Ranching is a good example of which type of agricultural system?
A
extensive commercial cultivation
B
controlled agriculture)
C
intensive susbsistence cultivation
D
capital-intensive agriculture
13) Which of the following was NOT a location of independent plant and animal domestication?
A
Iraq
B
California
C
Peru
D
india
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
always completely sustainable
B
not sustainable
C
practiced in high mountain regions
D
typical for tropical forests
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