Prepare for AP Human Geography with these agriculture practice questions. This guide covers agricultural regions, farming types, the Green Revolution, and food production.
Q: Shifting Cultivation
Answer: Tropical ClimateExtensiveThink of the Amazon ForestNEED Rain for Crop Rotation
Q: Plantation
Answer: Tropics and SubTropicsIntensiveLatin America and Sub-SaharanCommercial Farming practiced as Subsistence
Q: Intensive Subsistence with Wet Rice Dominant
Answer: Tropical because it needs the rainReally big in ChinaIntensiveMost of it is done by hand
Q: Intensive Subsistence with Wet Rice NOT Dominant
Answer: Dry ClimateIntensiveWheat and Barley is huge with Double Cropping
Q: Pastoral Nomadism
Answer: AridExtensiveDomesticated AnimalsTranshumanceMost Productive Subsistence Farming
Q: Mixed Crops and Livestock
Answer: Warm and Cold Mid-LatitudeCombination of Crops and LivestockMaize is the most common 2: Soybeans
Q: Dairy Farming
Answer: Cold Mid-LatitudeHighly PerishableClose to the MarketIndia is the leading producer
Q: Grain Farming
Answer: Cold Mid-LatitudeFor Human ConsumptionWinter and Summer WheatWHEAT-Not perishable
Q: Livestock Ranching
Answer: Semi Arid; AridExtensiveChina-Pig | America-Beef and ChickenFree-RangeVegetation is Sparse and Soil is Poor
Q: Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming
Answer: Truck FarmingApples, Cherries, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Some Flowers
Q: Mediterranean
Answer: Winter are moist and Mild SummersFruits, Vegetables, and FlowersGrapes and Olives