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Unit 5 Test Review ~ Development & Agriculture

1. Ranching is practiced in a climate region most similar to that of which other type of agriculture?

2. On what does the type of agriculture practiced on a commercial farm depend?

3. What is the principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach?

4. Other than corn, what is the most important crop in the U.S. mixed crop and livestock region?

5. What are the more developed regions?

6. Which type of agriculture occupies the largest percentage of the world's land area?

7. Where are hunting and gathering societies found?

8. What is the principal asset of the Four Dragons to promote development?

9. From where did seed agriculture probably reach Europe?

10. What problems do farmers in more developed and less developed countries share?

11. In what does the relatively large size of the average North American farm result?

12. Processing of computer information is an example of which sector of the economy?

13. What do correlating economic, social, and demographic indicators of development show?

14. Describes hunting and gathering?

15. Compared to LDCs, MDCs have higher rates of what educational characteristics?

16. Which type of agriculture is found primarily in LDCs?

17. What is a typical practice for growing rice in Asia?

18. Why are development prospects limited in Sub-Saharan Africa?

19. What is agribusiness?

20. Through what do LDCs generate funds to promote development?

21. Where are petroleum reserves in the Middle East primarily clustered?

22. In what ways are commercial agriculture is distinguished from subsistence agriculture?

23. What are traditional barriers to international investment?

24. Of what are China, the United States, Russia, and India the leading producers?

25. How has Saudi Arabia successfully employed the international trade alternative?

26. What is the less developed region with the highest percentage of people living in urban areas?

27. Why has ranching declined in the Southwestern U.S.?

28. According to the international trade approach to development, what should country do?

29. What is the difference in per capita GDP between the more developed and less developed regions?

30. Today, through what do European countries obtain raw materials?

31. Japan's principal asset for promoting development was an abundant supply of __________.

32. What is the value of a product minus the costs of raw materials and energy?

33. In general, the farther a dairy farm is from a large urban area the lower the percentage of output devoted to fresh milk. This occurs primarily because _______________________________________________.

34. The different areas of the world where Mediterranean agriculture predominates share similar _________.

35. In the Eastern Hemisphere, where did seed agriculture probably originate?

36. To separate husks from seeds, Asian farmers beat the heads on the ground, a practice known as ______?

37. Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of what?

38. What does the large percentage of population involved in agriculture in China indicate?

39. Per capita GDP is a good indicator of what?

40. What is the predominant form of agriculture in the Southeastern U.S.?

41. Where did vegetative planting probably originate?

42. In recent years, what have countries such as India embraced?

43. Compared to MDCs, LDCs have a higher percentage of workers in which sector of the economy?

44. According to von Thunen's model, a commercial farmer is concerned with which costs?

45. In contrast to the international trade approach, the self-sufficiency approach to development spreads investment through which sectors of the economy?

46. What is the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures?

47. On what does agricultural output in South Asia each year primarily depend?

48. The biggest problem faced by LDCs in financing development is inability to _____________________.

49. What hinders the international trade strategy for developing countries?

50. The major asset of the Eastern European region is abundant reserves of many raw materials.

51. When does shifting cultivation cause environmental damage?

52. What is the more developed region that displays the highest level of cultural homogeneity?

53. Unlike other forms of commercial agriculture, where are plantations primarily found?

54. What is a major health care problem for people in Africa and Asia?

55. Which type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?

56. Why was population traditionally low in Southeast Asia?

57. What are the indicators of a country's level of development?

58. Where is the highest level of development within Latin America found?

59. To finance development, LDCs borrow money from whom?

60. Give several reasons why unique agricultural practices arise in particular regions.

61. Compared to MDCs, LDCs typically have what characteristics?

62. Under communism, by what was Eastern Europe characterized?

63. 1st group to integrate seed agriculture w/ domestication of herd animals was probably in which region?

64. Pastoral nomadism is most commonly found in which climate region?

65. Subsistence agriculture is most commonly found in which climate region?

66. What are the characteristics of shifting cultivation?

67. Where are important agricultural hearths?

68. On a north polar projection, where do LDCs appear to be located?

69. What have self-sufficiency policies encouraged?

70. What is least likely to be produced in Mediterranean agriculture?

71. In MDCs, in what sector is employment increasing?

72. Of what do tertiary sector jobs involve?

73. People are more productive in MDCs because they have access to more _________________?

74. To increase crop yields, what do farmers in southeastern China commonly practice?

75. The biggest problem in promoting development through the international trade alternative is _________

___________________________.

76. The largest proportion of farmers in Asia practice intensive subsistence.

77. Give some examples of primary sector activities:

- secondary sector activities:

- tertiary sector activities:

- quaternary sector activities:

78. Shifting cultivation is most commonly found in which climate region?

79. During the twentieth century, what declined in MDCs?

80. What is the value of total output of goods and services in a year in a country?

81. What is the most important distinction for dividing the world into agricultural regions?

82. What is the cultivation of plants by cutting stems and dividing roots?

83. In LDCs, consumer goods such as telephones, televisions, and motor vehicles are owned by __________

_________________________.

84. According to the von Thumlautunen model, market-oriented gardens and milk producers were located in the first ring for what reasons?

85. Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture criticized for what reasons?

86. By what is Western Europe distinguished from Anglo-America?

87. Since the 1949 Communist victory in the civil war, the Chinese people have been subjected to increasing amounts of what?

88. By what are pastoral nomads distinguished from other forms of subsistence farmers?

89. What is the most important reason why most people in North China grow crops other than wet rice?

90. Anglo-America is the most important exporting region for what?

91. According to Rostow's development model, when does the process of development begin?

92. Von Thumlautunen's model is best used to explain the location of what?

93. Compared to shifting cultivation, intensive subsistence agriculture is characterized by what?

94. A good bottle of wine is most likely to come from what country?

95. The Middle East shows promise of becoming more developed primarily because of what characteristic?

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