Unit V Agriculture Review
A. Development and Diffusion of Agriculture. 1. Describe the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
(What was going on before it, what type of farming came first with the revolution, where did
they settle, list the major hearths, what was the Fertile Crescent and what plant dominated
production?etc…) 2. Describe the Second Agricultural Revolution AKA British Agricultural
Revolution (What was it? Where did it first take place? Around what other historical event?
What did this provide for that historical event? List different types of commercial
agriculture.Etc…) 3. Describe the Green Revolution AKA Third Agricultural Revolution(What did it
do? What was created?) 4. Large-scale commercial agriculture and agribusiness (Define
agribusiness. What crop is grown in the greatest quantity worldwide? What form of commercial
agriculture is found in developing countries? Because of terracing, what crop is grown on the
sides of terraced hills for flooding purposes? List some New World agricultural products that
came to Europe because of the Columbian Exchange.
B. Major Agricultural Production Regions. 1. Agricultural systems associated with major
bioclimatic zones (Describe Mediterranean climate zone: its location and crops grown, how does
California’s Mediterranean region differ from Europe). 2. Variations within major zones and
effects of markets (Where was coffee first domesticated, how does the equator affect climates,
how does seas and oceans affect climates) . 3. Interdependence among regions of food
production and consumption (Why has grain production since 1950 grown so much?).
C.
Rural Land Use and Settlement Patterns. 1. Models of land use. (Describe Von Thunen’s model
of the Isolated State and label the rings, what rings use the most intensive activies? . 2.
Settlement patterns associated with major agricultural types. (Define subsistence farming,
define plantation farming and what types of crops are grown, define cash crop, define slash and
burn, 3. Land use/land cover change. (Define soil salinization and where is it most likely to
occur, Define desertification and what is a prime example in the real world, Land settlement
patterns such as plots of squared off land is what,
D.
Issues in Contemporary Commercial Agriculture. 1. Biotechnology. (Define GMO,2. Spatial
organization of agriculture. (What type of farming practices are growing worldwide, what is this
doing to farmers of all types, why is commercial farming no longer a primary economic activity)
3. Environmental issues.( Limiting production and ensuring for future use is referred to as what,
4. Organic Farming and other types. (Define Crop rotation, define organic farming, define a truck
farm) 5. Global Food Distribution.(Define pastoral nomadism, define feedlots and describe their
type of land use,