Agriculture KI 3&4

The cultivation of a single crop in a given area is called...

• Double Cropping

• Share Cropping

• Intensive Subsistence

• Monoculture

This agricultural practice is also known as slash and burn farming and takes up about 1/4 of the worlds land area.

• Intensive Subsistence

• Shifting Cultivation

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Plantation Farming

This agricultural practice involves herding animals in dry parts of developing countries. These animals include sheep, goats, and camels.

• Ranching

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Mixed Crop and Livestock

• Intensive Subsistence

"Wet Rice" farming is a form of this type of agriculture practiced in developing countries. It is the most common form of agriculture in the world.

• Intensive Subsistence

• Shifting Cultivation

• Plantation Farming

• Commercial Agriculture

This form of agriculture involves the production of aquatic organisms under controlled conditions throughout part or all of their lifecycle.

• Agribusiness

• Desertification

• Aquaculture

• Wet Rice Farming

This form of agriculture involves growing one or two crops on thousands of acres of land. It is typically done in developing countries by corporations controlled by US or European entities.

• Commercial Agriculture

• Intensive Subsistence

• Plantation Farming

• Shifting Cultivation

Common in the Midwest region of the United States, this form of agriculture involves growing crops for the purpose of feeding livestock.

• Mixed Crop and Livestock

• Grain Farming

• Dairy Farming

• Intensive Subsistence

What is this image describing?

• The Von Thunen Model

• Commercial Agriculture

• Subsistence Farming

• Urbanization

Because of the risk of spoiling, dairy farms have to be located close to the area in which they are selling products. This region is called the...

• Milk Zone

• Dairy Area

• Milkshed

• Spoil Center

Overuse of land can cause ______ making it almost impossible to grow on again.

• extinction

• exhaustion

• desertification

• waste