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Agriculture: Key Issue 1
What is agriculture, and where did agriculture begin?
Fouberg pp. 311- 320
● FIELD NOTES
1. What is a Roundup Ready soybean?
2. How does the soybean work?
3. Who is Monsanto?
4. Define organic agriculture -
a. What is the most glaring or interesting recent statistic regarding organic foods?
b. Where in the world would are most organic foods sold?
c. What are the benefits of the organic movement?
5. Using the chart below, define each of the following economic activities.
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|Secondary Economic Activities | |
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|Tertiary Economic Activities | |
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|Quaternary & Quinary Economic Activities | |
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6. Using the chart below, define the following and summarize each of its characteristics.
|TERM |DEFINITION |SUMMARY OF CHARACTERISTICS |
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|HUNTING/GATHERING | | |
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|1ST AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION | | |
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|DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS | | |
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|SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE | | |
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Agriculture: Key Issue 2
How did agriculture change with industrialization?
Fouberg pp. 320-326
1. Use the chart below to summarize the characteristics of the Second Agricultural Revolution
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|New Crops | |
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|Role of the Government | |
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|New Technology | |
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|Breeding | |
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|Railroad | |
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VON THUNEN MODEL
2. Who was von Thunen?
2a. What did he discover or realize?
3. What are the 4 rings of the model that von Thunen observed in relation to the spatial distribution of agriculture activities (what is farmed in each of the sections)? Please create a diagram that also illustrates this model (be sure to color code).
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4. What did von Thunen reason in regards to transportation and cost?
5. What did geographer Lee Liu discover about spatial distribution in China? How did it vary from von Thunen?
The Third Agricultural Revolution / The Green Revolution
6. Using the chart below summarize the key information regarding the 3rd Agricultural Revolution/Green Revolution
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|Origins | |
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|Geographical Impact | |
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Regional & Local Change
7. Using the chart below list the various changes that have occurred in the areas listed below as a result of the Green Revolution
|Latin America |Subsaharan Africa |Asia |
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Subsistence Farming
8. Use the chart below to describe the impact that has been placed on subsistence farming as a result of agricultural modernization.
|Definition-Subsistence Farming |European Intervention |Modern-day Effects |
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Agriculture: Key Issue 3
What Imprint Does Agriculture Make On The Cultural Landscape?
Fouberg pp. 326-330
1. Use the chart below to distinguish the various types of land ownership based on the cadastral system.
| |Global Location / Where It Is Common |Definition |
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2. On the map below, identify the dominant land survey patterns in the United States. Use fig. 11.11 on pg. 327. Include a key.
VILLAGES
3. In the chart below, please describe the various village forms that exist in the world. Describe the type of village and where it is most commonly located.
|VILLAGE Form |Description |Common Global Location |
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|DISPERSED VILLAGE / LINEAR | | |
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|NUCLEATED SETTLEMENT / CLUSTER | | |
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|ROUND VILLAGE / RUNDLING | | |
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|WALLED VILLAGE | | |
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4. What are (at least) 2 examples of functional differentiation within villages around the world?
Agriculture: Key Issue 4
How Is Agriculture Currently Organized Geographically & How Has Agribusiness Influenced The Contemporary Geography Of Agriculture?
Fouberg pp. 330-345
The World Map of Agriculture
1. Use the charts below in order to organize information regarding the various forms of agriculture around the world.
Plantation Farming
Defined:
|Characteristics |Regions/Countries |Specific Crops |Why there / Issues Today |
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Commercial Livestock, Fruit, and Grain Agriculture
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|Characteristics |Regions/Countries |Specific Crops |Why there / Issues Today |
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Subsistence Agriculture
Defined:
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Mediterranean Agriculture
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|Characteristics |Regions/Countries |Specific Crops |Why there / Issues Today |
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Drug Agriculture
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|Characteristics |Regions/Countries |Specific Crops |Why there / Issues Today |
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2. Using the map below and figure 11.19 (pg. 337), please identify the major regions of Mexican Drug Cartel Regions of Influence. Be sure to color in the map & identify all the federation zones.
CASE STUDY: COTTON – Political Influences on Agriculture (p. 338)
3. Using the chart below break down how the growth of the cash crop cotton was politically influenced.
|Origins |Global Growth |Legacy |
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4. How has the US government become a driving force in the development of agriculture in the country?
5. How have communist governments been influential in agricultural reform in their countries?
CASE STUDY: COFFEE – Socio-Cultural Influences on Agriculture
6. Using the chart below break down how the growth of the luxury crop coffee was socio-culturally influenced.
|Origins / History |Reality of Production |Changes in Coffee Production |
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7. Which companies make fair trade coffee available?
8. How has the geography of agriculture changed due to the popularity of Tea?
AGRIBUSINESS
9. What is agribusiness & its purpose?
10. How has the geography of agriculture changed in terms of the following areas of agricultural production?
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|POULTRY PRODUCTION | |
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|HOG PRODUCTION | |
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE
11. What have been environmental impacts of commercial agriculture?
|Fish Industry |Organic Farming |
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|Large-Scale Intensive Agriculture |Rise in Fast-Food Industry |
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THE CHALLENGE OF FEEDING EVERYONE
12. What is the state of worldwide food production today?
13. What have been the changes in the following countries in regards to the loss of farmland?
|CHINA |UNITED STATES |
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14. How are farmlands in the US at risk due to the rise of new housing developments?
15. How has the rise of global food prices and food consumption put pressure on the global social landscape?
16. Why does the author say that it is “possible for many people to put farming largely out of their minds?”
17. What are food deserts?
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