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Which of the following was NOT a location of independent plant and animal domestication?
a) india
b) Iraq
c) California
d) Peru
The Green Revolution greatly increased crop production in some countries
a) with some adverse side effects
b) without adverse side effects
c) as a replacement for deindustrialization
d) by encouraging the cultivation of local crop varieties
Ranching is a good example of which type of agricultural system?
a) intensive susbsistence cultivation
b) capital-intensive agriculture
c) controlled agriculture)
d) extensive commercial cultivation
According to von Thunen, the regional geography of agriculture is determined by
a) landarea
b) rent
c) climate
d) material inputs
____is/are widespread in semiarid climates throughout the world.
a) dairying
b) ranching
c) rice paddies
d) slash and burn agriculture
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) TNCs often control agricultural activity abroad
c) the farm in no longer the center of agricultural activity,
d) agriculture has become a multileverl process of production, processing, markerting, and consumption
In arid climates, like southern California and the Middle East, _______ can cause the soil to become salty and infertile.
a) erosion
b) topsoil loss
c) saltation
d) salinization
__ is a common cause of decreasing farmland in rapidly growing urban areas
a) Urban Sprawl
b) Topsoil loss
c) Agribusiness
d) Industrializatoin
Soil specialists must work to overcome the negative effects of ______ associated with agricultural production.
a) fertilization and salinization
b) salinization and topsoil loss
c) pesticides and fertilization
d) the Green Revolution and agribusiness
DDT is an example of a ____ that has had negative effects all the way through the food chain.
a) pesticide
b) bacteria
c) fungicide
d) GMO
In modifying the Von Thunen model. What ring is no longer necessary in its original place due to the invention of electricity?
a) Perishables
b) grain fallow
c) Forest
d) Livestock
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) Mediterranean agriculture in Greece
c) Intensive subsistence Rice farming in Asia
d) Dairying in the Northeast United States
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) pershibility
c) quality of soil
d) delivery cost
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) Intensive non rice
c) shifting cultivation
d) grainfarming
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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