5.1 Types of Agriculture

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What type of agriculture deals with growing crops and raising livestock to feed only the family?

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Subsistence

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Plantation farming is a type of

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commercial farming.

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Which factor plays the most crucial role in deciding which agricultural activities throughout the world?

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Climate

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Agriculture is best defined as: the hunting and gathering, the altering genetic material of plants, the cultivation of plants/domesticating animals, using technology to increase production

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the cultivation of plants/domesticating animals

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In intensive farming-

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Maximum usage of minimum land is done

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Agriculture is defined as a

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primary activity.

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All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT: dairy farming, pastoral nomadism, Livestock Ranching, Commercial Gardening, grain farming

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pastoral nomadism

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Which of the following crops is grown on the sides of terraced hills to allow flowing water to run over the plants? (Use the Image) Options: Wheat, Rice, Taro, Soybeans, Millet

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Rice

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All of the following are plantation crops EXCEPT: cotton, tea, sugarcane, rubber, wheat

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wheat

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All of the following crops are products of Mediterranean agriculture EXCEPT: olives, grapes, dates, figs, corn

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corn