Agriculture odd one out
Identify the odd one out in each of the terms given below and suggest a reason why it is
the odd one out.
For example:
Agribusiness
Subsistence
agriculture
Cash crops
Commercial
farming
Reason: Cash crops are grown commercially as a form of agribusiness, for
profit. Subsistence farming is farming at a self-sufficiency level; the farmers
only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.
Student task – Find the odd one out
Hill sheep farming
Pastoral
Dairy farming
Arable
High yield
varieties
Climate
Labour
Planting
Fertilizer
Crops
Reason:
Fertilizer
Reason:
Ploughing
Reason:
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Labour
Profit
Animals
Crops
Labour
Reinvested profit
Stock
Pastoral
Mixed
Nomadic
Low yields per
hectare
Extensive farming
Intensive farming
Salinisation
Double cropping
Soil erosion
Reason:
Seeds
Reason: Arable
Reason: Low input of
labour
Reason: Eutrophication
Reason:
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Hedgerow
removal
Overuse of
fertilizer
Extensive
agriculture
Wetlands drained
Low yields per
hectare
Organic farming
No insecticides
Subsistence
agriculture
Amazon tropical
rainforest
UK
Soil fertility
Plantations
Monoculture
Rice
High yield
varieties
Green Revolution
Reason: Intensive
agriculture
Reason: Shifting
cultivation
Reason: Cash crop
Reason: Labour intensive
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Answers
Hill sheep farming
Pastoral
Dairy farming
Arable
Reason:
Hill sheep farming and dairy farming are both types of pastoral farming. Arable farming is the
cultivation of crops.
Fertilizer
Climate
High yield varieties
Labour
Reason:
High yield varieties are an output. Fertilizers, climate and labour are three inputs into the farming
system.
Ploughing
Planting
Fertilizer
Crops
Reason:
Crops are an output from the farming system. Ploughing, planting and fertilizer are all inputs.
Profit
Labour
Animals
Crops
Reason:
Labour is an input into the farming system whereas profit, animal and crops are all outputs.
Seeds
Reinvested profit
Labour
Stock
Reason:
Labour is an input to the farming system. The other three terms are part of the feedback within the
system.
Arable
Pastoral
Mixed
Nomadic
Reason:
Farms can be classified by produce, as arable, pastoral or mixed. Nomadic farming is a
classification based on permanence.
Low input of labour
Low yields per
hectare
Extensive farming
Intensive farming
Reason:
Extensive farms are commonly large, and have low inputs of labour giving low yields per hectare
i.e. the opposite of intensive farms.
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Eutrophication
Salinisation
Double cropping
Soil erosion
Reason:
Eutrophication, salinisation and soil erosion are environmental problems created by inappropriate
farming methods, possibly by double cropping marginal land in successive years.
Hedgerow removal
Extensive
agriculture
Overuse of fertilizer
Wetlands drained
Reason:
Hedgerow removal, fertilizer overuse and the draining of wetlands are associated with intensive
methods of farming in MEDCs.
Intensive
agriculture
Low yields per
hectare
Organic farming
No insecticides
Reason:
Organic farming is associated with low yields per hectare and no use of insecticides. Intensive
farming is the opposite of this.
Shifting cultivation
Subsistence
agriculture
Amazon tropical
rainforest
UK
Reason:
Shifting cultivation is a form of subsistence agriculture common in areas of the Amazon tropical
rainforest.
Cash crop
Plantations
Soil fertility
Monoculture
Reason:
An example of monoculture is bananas commonly grown as a cash crop on plantations.
Labour intensive
Rice
High yield varieties
Green Revolution
Reason:
Capital intensive methods e.g. high yield varieties of rice were introduced in the ‘Green Revolution’
in the 1960s. This is the opposite of labour intensive methods.
Extension activity
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Students can use notes to create their own ‘Agriculture odd one out’ activity. This
can then be shared with other students in the class.
Student could add another agriculture key word or phrase to the existing table but
continue preserving the correct odd one out.
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