AP Human Geography Chapter 10 Study Guide – Flashcards

SA:Western India, Northern China, Ethiopia, Southern Mexico, and Northern Peru. VP: Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Northwest South America. AD: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, Southwest Asia, Africa, and Mesoamerican.

A geographer, he identified 11 main agricultural regions, plus an area where agriculture was nonexistent.

Commercial agriculture is roughly defined as that part of agriculture producing output primarily for the market. Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Primary: include agriculture (both subsistence and commercial), mining, forestry, farming, grazing, hunting and gathering, fishing, and quarrying. Secondary: include metal working and smelting, automobile production, textile production, chemical and engineering industries, aerospace manufacturing, energy utilities, engineering, breweries and bottlers, construction, and shipbuilding. Tertiary: include retail and wholesale sales, transportation and distribution, entertainment (movies, television, radio, music, theater, etc.), restaurants, clerical services, media, tourism, insurance, banking, healthcare, and law. Quaternary: include government, culture, libraries, scientific research, education, and information technology.

Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corperations.

A town with buildings clustered together around a center.

An irrigated rice or paddy-field usually found in Indonesia or Malaysia.

Model of agricultural land use. Rings mean different forms of agriculture.

When houses are group together in tiny clusters.

-physical characteristics -limited knowledge of alternatives -cultural preferences -climate

A systematic approach to deciding which crop to plant where in your vegetable garden from one year to the next.

Taming of animals for use and for companionship.

A tropical or subtropical region.

A material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches.

An agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot.

Livestock ranching is the breeding, and raising of animals, these animals are usually used for meat purposes and raised in large herds. Nomadic pastoralism is a form of pastoralism where livestock are herded in order to find fresh pastures on which to graze.

Brick, mud, and stone.

-high temperature -suitable soil -availability of water -sufficient labor

Herd them, milk, hair, barter, etc.

Mediterranean: Mediterranean climate, west coast, MDC's and LDC's Truck Farming: MDC's U.S. near Urban Areas

Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods; a process that requires very little human labor.

The different types of technological advances.

-a rectangular land division scheme that was designed to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. -1785

An economic law that demonstrates the ways in which protectionism is unnecessary in free trade.

A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.

The cultivation of a single crop in a given area.

When a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested.

To produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).

The action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer.

An agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

The watering of land to make it ready for agriculture. If you want to start a strawberry farm in the desert, irrigation will be necessary.