Another review of agriculuture

Another review

True or False

• About two-thirds of the people in the world are farmers.

True

• Most of the wheat grown in the American grain region is consumed by animals

False

• While 40% of the world's population overall are farmers, only 10% of the United States' population are farmers.

False

• There is consensus among scientists that hunters/gatherers converted to agriculture because of the domestication of animals roughly 12,000 years ago

False

• Railroads and highways have had a positive impact on 20th century farming in MDCs.

True

• Subsistence agriculture is designed mainly to generate products for sale off the farm.

False

• Mediterranean farming is so named because it is practiced only on land bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

False

• Pastoral nomads primarily live in an arid climate region that stretches from Central Asia to North Africa.

True

• The green revolution has allowed agricultural production to increase at a rate equal to population growth

False

• Most people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become commercial farmers.

False

• Hunting and gathering is still practiced by isolated groups in Africa, Australia, and South America.

True

• Shifting cultivation can support large population concentrations in East and South Asia.

False

• The type of agriculture practiced on a commercial farm depends more on access to markets rather than on the suitability of land for particular crops.

False

• Developing countries are responsible for a small percentage of the world's milk production.

True

• Ranching is practiced in the dry lands of both more developed and less developed countries.

• True

• Crops grown in the mixed crop and livestock region are used primarily to feed animals.

• True

• ) Despite its location far from world markets, New Zealand is a major dairy producer.

• Answer: TRUE

• Most commercial farms in the United States are owned by large corporations rather than individual families.

• Answer: FALSE

• The one type of commercial agriculture found in developing countries rather than more developed countries is mixed crop and livestock.

• Answer: FALSE

• Vegetative planting originated in Southeast Asia.

• Answer: TRUE

Short Answer

• What is the distinctive type of agriculture practiced in the population concentrations of East and South Asia?

• Answer: intensive subsistence

• What is the most important crop grown in East Asia? Why is this crop grown extensively in the southern part of the region but not in the northern part?

• Answer: rice; milder climate

• In shifting cultivation, how do farmers clear their fields for planting?

• Answer: slash and burn

• What is the distinctive type of agriculture practiced in the dry lands of less developed countries?

• Answer: pastoral nomadism

• What is the distinctive type of agriculture practiced in the dry lands of the southwestern United States?

• Answer: livestock ranching

• What type of agriculture is dominant in the U.S. Midwest, from Ohio to Iowa?

• What are the two most important crops in this region?

• Answer: mixed crop and livestock; corn; soybeans

• What type of agriculture would you expect to find in the northeastern United States?

• Answer: dairying

• To raise money for development, what kind of crops are farmers in less developed countries encouraged to grow?

• Answer: luxury crops for export, cash crops, and items for consumption abroad (may also answer drug crops encouraged by financial incentives)

• Prior to the invention of agriculture, how did most people obtain their food?

• Answer: hunting and gathering