APHUG Unit 5

A farmer who produces only enough food for the immediate family is practicing

• shifting cultivation

• intensive farming

• vegetative planding

• subsistence farming

Dairy farmers locate near urban areas because

• it is expensive to transport product to market.

• land costs are high.

• milk has an unlimited shelf life.

• of agglomeration pressures.

Both shifting agriculturalists and commercial farmers practice crop rotation, but commercial farmers

• make less use of fertilizers.

• do not raise livestock.

• are less likely to allow fields to remain fallow (dormant).

• do not feed their crops to animals.

Which of the following does NOT characterize modern industrial agriculture?

• specialized crops

• agreements with buyer-processors

• prices met by needs of individual farmers

• global exchange

Increasing food production by expanding the amount of land under cultivation is limited by the fact that

• technology is lacking in many less developed countries

• most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation

• few young people want to be farmers

• global warming has put many previously cultivated areas under water

Deforestation has resulted in

• more farmland in some places but more desertification in others

• more farmland in some places but less desertification in others

• less farmland in some places but more desertification in others

• less farmland in some places and less desertification in others

The primary factor in vonThuen's model for choosing commercial farm products is

• land price

• market location

• climate

• labor cost

The Green Revolution technology has resulted in which of the following modern agriculture?

• the development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas

• the construction of new irrigation systems and a reduction in the use of fertilizers

• an increase in the circulation of investment capital to help the poorest farmers

• the end of famine in the world

Which describes a change in agriculture that shows the clearest impact of the development of argibusiness?

• the small-scale farming sector

• the number of farmers involved in sustainable agriculture has increased dramatically

• the use of organic farming methods has increased greatly

• the networks for production and distribution have become more efficients

Which of the following types of agriculture is most likely to produce a dispersed settlement pattern?

• livestock farming

• Mediterranean farming

• dairy farming

• truck farming