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Slash-and-Burn agriculture is
a) typical for rainforests
b) always completely sustainable
c) a relatively new invention
d) practiced in high mountain regions

Slash-and-burn agriculture is often used by farmers who live in areas that have (1 point)
a) very high elevations, such as in mountain ranges in South America and South Asia
b) soil that lacks sufficient amounts of nitrogen to grow food crops quickly
c) a climate of rain through the year, such as an arid or dessert region
d) a combination of climate and physical features that result in crops growing very slowly

____is/are widespread in semiarid climates throughout the world.
a) ranching
b) rice patties
c) tropical plantations
d) slash and burn

The form of agriculture that refers to a particular climate is
a) dairy
b) Mediterranean
c) shifting cultivation
d) livestock rancing

Rice cultivation in Southeast Asia is largely a ________________ activity.
a) part-time
b) mechanized
c) commercial
d) subsistence

Ranching is a good example of which type of agricultural system?
a) capital-intensive agriculture
b) extensive commercial cultivation
c) labor-intensive agriculture
d) intensive susbsistence cultivation

In recent years, many wooded areas in ___________ have been deforested to provide beef for hamburgers for fast-food chains in the United States.
a) East and South Asia
b) West Africa
c) East Africa
d) Central and South America

Poorer countries, producing such cash crops as sugar,
a) cooperate with each other to determine global prices and demand
b) plant less in order to drive up the prices.
c) are at the mercy of the purchasing countries that set the prices.
d) set the market price themselves.

A form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after short periods of crop production is
a) shifting cultivation.
b) nomadic herding.
c) subsistence wheat cultivation.
d) subsistence rice cultivation.

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) Grain farming
b) Intensive non rice
c) Intensive wet rice
d) Shifting cultivation

Colonial powers would make subsistence farmers
a) grow cash crops only.
b) farm on plantations in addition to farming their own land.
c) grow cash crops in addition to food crops the farmer needed to survive.
d) buy commercial fertilizer at fixed prices.

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