Exam 11: Agriculture

Most scholars believe that seed cultivation (First Agricultural Revolution)occurred in ____________

Fair trade coffee buyers certify that ____ % of the retail price of their coffee goes to the coffee growers.

Bio-genetic engineering now allows the growing of new strains in more arid regions of the Plains States to meet the demand of the ___________ industry.

Farmers of the Nile Valley practice shifting cultivation.

Demand for organic foods is greatest in ____________

Geographer Lee Liu studying the spatial patterns of agriculture in parts of China,found soils in intensively used fields near villages were ____________

Goats were domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Zagros Mountain region of ______________

According to the work of Carl Sauer,no agricultural innovations occurred in the US.

The ratio of percent of labor force to percent of GDP in the agricultural sector of Canada (3% of labor force: 2.3% of GDP)indicates that Canada's agricultural sector is ______________ intensive.

Because of the Green Revolution,today most famine results from political instability rather than failure of crop production.

The Township and Range System is to the American Plains as the lay-lot survey system is to __________

Shifting cultivation involves shifting crops (crop rotation)in small permanent fields.

Which of the following agricultural activities is widespread in the northeastern U.S.and northwestern Europe?

Many geographers consider the Green Revolution a failure.

As societies become more complex,functional differences are seen in buildings.

Very few of Southeast Asia's rice farmers are subsistence farmers.

Even after the end of colonialism,many plantations in the world are still owned by Europeans or Americans.

The most prevalent rural residential pattern in the world's agricultural areas is _____________

Which of the following fairly small areas of wheat production still have major export trade?

The service region for the domestication of hemp,eggplants and mangoes is ___________