agriculture wooooo Flashcards
The Second Agricultural Revolution occurred at roughly the same time as the
A) American Civil War
B) Industrial Revolution
C) Green
Revolution
D) Boxer Rebellion
E) California Gold Rush
Answer: (B)
The Third Agricultural Revolution is also known as the
A) Green Revolution
B) Industrial Revolution
C) Genetic
Revolution
D) Rice Revolution
E) Plantation Revolution
Answer: (A)
Locations farthest from large bodies of water
A) experience the most natural disasters
B) have the most
extreme climates
C) are most suitable for large-scale
agriculture
D) need more water to irrigate crops
E) tend to
have the highest population density
Answer: (B)
Dogs, pigs, and chickens were first domesticated in
A) Western Africa
B) Central America
C) North America
D) Southeast Asia
E) Northern India
Answer: (D)
All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture except
A) dairy farming
B) specialized fruit production
C)
cattle ranching
D) grain farming
E) pastoral nomadism
Answer: (E)
A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing
A) subsistence agriculture
B) commercial farming
C) crop
rotation
D) slash-and-burn agriculture
E) shifting cultivation
Answer: (C)