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AP Human GeographyMrs. BellisariChapter 10 and 11 Study Guide for Test Terms and Ideas you should know for the testChapter 10: Agriculture and Rural Land Use Agriculture (definition) Commercial agriculture vs. Subsistence agriculture First agricultural revolution Vegetative planting Seed planting Animal domestication Examples of Agricultural hearths Agricultural diffusion Evolution of crop rotation systems Second agricultural revolution Whittlesley’s Agricultural Regions (you should know specific areas in the world where the different agricultural practices are used)Shifting cultivation (slash and burn) Intertilage Pastoral nomadism Intensive Subsistence with Wet Rice DominantDouble cropping Intensive Subsistence with Wet Rice Non-DominantPlantation Dairy FarmingMilkshedTruck farming (commercial gardening and fruit farming)Mediterranean agriculture Livestock and mixed crop farmingGrain farmingLivestock ranchingImpact of agricultural practices on the environment Desertification, deforestation Impacts of markets on production areas Linkages between production and consumers Von Thunen and Application of Von Thunen’s model Rural land use patterns Green Revolution Benefits and drawbacks of the Green Revolution – specific countries Agribusiness Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Biotechnological revolution Monoculture Globalization of agriculture Boserup’s thesis Sustainable agriculture Ridge tillage Aquaculture Organic agriculture Chapter 11- Industry and Manufacturing Industry before the Industrial Revolution (cottage) Industrial Revolution and reasons why it begins in EnglandReasons why Industrial growth in the United StatesFordism vs Post-FordismDistribution of fossil fuels and the implications New technologies and implications Alfred Weber and least cost theory Comparative costs of transportation systems Bulk gaining vs. bulk reducing industries (examples and applications) Market-orientated vs material-orientated Site factors of industrial location Situational factors of industrial location Changing geography of jobs (textiles & automobiles)Reasons for change in industrial locationJust-in-time deliveries (positives and negatives)Maquiladoras Export-processing zones (EPZ) or Special Economic Zones (SEZ)Outsourcing (examples and reasons)Industrial pollution issues(air and water pollution)Global warmingSustainable developmentRegional trading blocs (NAFTA) ................
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