Algal Blooms
ab 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
what is causing algal blooms
fertilizer and waste getting into waterways
Factory Farms Polluting rivers and spreading disease to neighboring towns.
p 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effects
increased exposure to toxic chemicals
c 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
antibiotic-resistant bacteria/ diseases
a 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
what caused antibiotic-resistant bacteria/ diseases
an overuse of antibiotics in factorie farms
Banana plants are being destroyed
d 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
why are banana plants being destroyed
A fungi diseases is spreading because of mono cropping.
mono cropping
only planting one strain or type of plant
an increase in methane is worsening global warming.
m 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
what is causing an increase in methane that is worsening global warming
livestock burping and gassing.
beef production is increasing our global water footprint
b 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
farmers have to leave their fields behind because of salt
f 3rd Agricultural Revolution environmental effect
why is salt causing farmers to leave their fields
because of an increased salt concentration in the soil from the water.
the second agricultural revolution brought knowledge of
fertilizers and sselective breeding
when/where did the second agricultural revolution begin
1600's europe
the second agricultural revolution brought
better crops from the americas
what crops were in the americas
potatoes and corn
the second agricultural revolution brought new technology from
the industrial revolution
enclosure act
larger, more productive, farms
- more specialization
- cheaper food
what is fallow land
land left unused to recover nutrients
enclosure act was bad because there were
less jobs
seed drills
controlled where seeds were placed so the crops grew correctly.
- more efficient planting
- less waste
four-crop rotation system
- no more fallow land
- more food
- farmers planted more
- lower prices
economic effects of the second agricultural revolution
- more food so lower prices
- new machines so more efficient
- less jobs
what are some features of a good map
- a key/legend
- title
- a source with a date
- context
contextualization
describing what was going on before an event occured that is relevant to understanding the event itself.
what is accurate on a Mercator map
- countries/ continents shape
- direction
the second agricultural revolution brought knowledge of
fertilizers and selective breeding
what parts of the mercator map are too big
Greenland and Antartica
what is correct on an equal area projection map
the size
what is wrong on an equal area projection map
the shape
what continent did the human race begin in
africa
what was the neolithic revolution
when farming was created
fertile
capable of reproducing
what four continents was farming invented in
North America, Asia, South America, Africa
what is the first place farming began called
mesopotamia or the fertile crecent
what year did farming begin
8,000 BC
what are the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers in Egypt around Mesopotamia
farming led
more food
farming - more food -
staying in one place and free time
farming- more food- staying in one place and free time-
civilization and advances
specialization
increased division of labor
what was the top of the hierarchy of early agricultural civilizations
religious leaders
initialy life was harder, there was
more work and a lower life expectancy
distance decay
the further away from something you are the less you interact with it
space-time compression
the more connected we become the less distance decay matters