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)