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Human Geo Unit 6

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    Agriculture
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  • How did the 1st Agricultural Revolution affect human development?
    Invented farming AND cities
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  • What form of farming would be negatively affected by falling cash crop prices?
    Plantation farming
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  • What form of agriculture has been largely ended by the rise of agribusinesses?
    Intensive subsistence farming / Family farms
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  • What causes the various different farming practices around the world to exist?
    The climate / environment
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  • What has become the main reason why people lack access to healthy food in the 21st century?
    Food prices going up
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  • What are the negative effects of shifting cultivation / slash & burn farming?
    Deforestation
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  • What regions of the world import the most food?
    African countries; Eastern Hemisphere
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  • What regions of the world export the most food?
    USA; Western Hemisphere
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  • How do agricultural subsidies affect farmers?
    Pay farmers and help control crop prices
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  • How can deforestation from shifting cultivation harm humans?
    Hurts the environment, soil erosion, lack of shelter
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  • What kind of tools would you expect to find a person practicing intensive subsistence farming using?
    Hand tools, animal pulled plow
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  • What form of agriculture has led to a great increase in fish supply without harming wild fish populations?
    Aquaculture
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  • What agricultural crop type would you expect to find being grown in areas near the Equator?
    Plantation cash crops
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  • Why are overgrazing and deforestation so unsustainable in semi-arid (dry) regions?
    The grass doesn’t grow back → desertification
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  • How have GMO affected the supply of grain crops around the world?
    It has increased yield (production)
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  • Why did von Thunen develop his agricultural model?
    To lower transportation costs
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