AP Human Geography – Chapter 11 Review – Flashcards
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Organic food is found in _____ areas
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all
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Hunter gatherers living in the vacinity of the Pacific Ocean specialized in _______________
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salmon fishing
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Demand for organic foods is greatest in ___________
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core regions
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Which commodity would be found closest to the market town in von Thunens model?
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milk
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Most scholars believe that seed cultivation occurred in the ______________
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Fertile Crescent
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According to Spencer and Thomas each agricultural hearth was associated with a local groupings of plants. Example: taro, yams, and bananas are associated with the ______________________ hearth
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Southeast Asia
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Milpa agriculture involves the ___________ method of clearing fields
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burning
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The Second Agricultural Revolution can generally be traced to Europe within what time frame?
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17th and 18th century
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Poor countries producing such cash crops as sugar are at the mercy of purchasing countries that set the prices.
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True
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25% of world sugar production... and is produced from ________________
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sugar beets
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The most prevalent rural residential pattern in the world's agricultural areas is ________________
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nucleated
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By 1992 the most widely grown crop variety on Earth wa called IR36 which was a variety of _____
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rice
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The basic unit of the township and range system, the section, has an area of ___________
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1 sq mile
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Geographer Lee Liu studying the spatial patterns of agriculture in parts of China found soils in intensely used fields near villages were _______________
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fertile and productive
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The crop is _______
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maize
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The Spanish invaders of Middle America, laid out villaged and towns in what form?
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grid
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The world's leading exporter of rice is _________
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Thailand
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Rubber trees were 1st tapped in _________________
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Amazon basn
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This form of agriculture that refers to a particular climate is _____________
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Mediterrean
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In recent years, many wooded areas in _________________ have been deforested to provide beef for hamburgers for fast food chains
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Central and South America
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Corn flake production is an example of ____________________
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Secondary economic activity
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The ratio of percent of labor force to percent of GDP in the agricultural sector of Canada indicates that Canada's agricultural sector is __________ intensive
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machine
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According to Carl Sauer, the earliest plant domestication was prompted by _____________
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root crops
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Of the 148 species of large herbivores, ___ have been domesticated
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14
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Before the intervention of Europeans the societies practicing subsistence farming were quite equal because ______________
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communal ownership
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Colonial powers would make subsistence farmers _____________________________
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cash crops in addition to food crops
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In areas of shifting cultivation the population can not have a high density
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True
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The rectangular land division scheme in the United States adopted after the American Revolution is unique and its correct name is _______________________
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township-and-range system
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In Von Thunen's model, there was a concentric circle of forests around the city because ____________
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lumber and firewood
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The form of villages still existing in many rural landscapes that are reminders of a turbulent past is ___________
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walled
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In villages everywhere, social stratification is reflected by ____________________________
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the range in quality of village houses
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Rice cultivation in South East Asia is largely a __________ activity
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subsistence
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Where are failrly areas of wheat production that still have major export trade?
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Argentina and Australia
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Much of cotton purchased by the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Japan is grown in the ______________
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United States
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Coffee was domesticated in Ethiopia. Today, 70% of production is in ___________________
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Middle and South America
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Corn of the American corn belt originated in ________________
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central America
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Biogenetically engineering now allows the growing of new strains in more arid regions of the plain states to meet the demand of the ________________ industry
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biodiesel food
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A form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after short periods of crop production is ______________________
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shifting cultivation
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The functional differentiation of farm villages world wide are to ___________________
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Western cultures
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Dairy agricultural activities is widespead in the Northeastern United States and Northwestern Europe
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True
