AG - Agriculture Review Lesson
Agriculture Review Lesson
Review the lesson material below. Use the following study guide, along with your key terms list, to prepare for the module test.
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- Hunting and Gathering
- Crops
- Gender roles
- Locations
- Subsistence vs Commercial Agriculture
- Locations
- % of people involved
- Purpose
- Types of farming
- Agricultural Revolutions
- First (Neolithic Revolution)
- Second Revolution with the Industrial Revolution
- Third Revolution (Green Revolution)
- Primary economic activities
- Definition
- Examples
- Other four economic sectors
- Climate and farming maps
- Koppen
- Whittlesey
- Technologies:
- Irrigation
- Reaper
- Combine
- Transportation (railroads, refrigeration, highways)
- Hearths of agriculture (both seed and vegetative)
- Intensive vs. extensive farming
- Types of Agriculture (locations, crops, methods):
- Shifting Cultivation
- Pastoral Nomadism
- Intensive Subsistence Farming (Wet Rice)
- Intensive Subsistence Farming (Not Rice)
- Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming
- Dairy Farming
- Livestock Ranching
- Grain Farming
- Mediterranean
- Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming
- Plantation Farming
- Land-use survey models
- Metes and Bounds
- Long lot
- Township and Range
- Green Revolution vs GMO
- Pros and Cons
- Environmental impact (Deforestation, desertification, climate change)
- Von Thunen's Land-use theory
- Basis and assumptions
- Main contributing factors
- Normal areas for each type of farming
- Modern issues with the theory
- Crops
- Largest produced (worldwide vs USA)
- Cultural factors
- Cash crops
- Farming
- Why are there less farms and farmers?
- Why are the numbers of acres and products not declining?
- Organic movement/Green Movement
- Sustainability
- Philosophy
- Locations
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