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A food assemblage that included olives, pita bread, cheese, figs, lamb, and wine is most associated with which of the following?
Greece
According to Carl Sauer, which of the following is true about plant domestication?
It first occurred in diversified habits with a variety of species
Which of the following included the world’s earliest centers of plant domestication?
Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle east
Which of the following explains why multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arose across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River Valley, and Southeast Asia?
Domestication of plants and animals evolved in each hearth independently of one another as societies in each area learned and applied the process to local plants and animals.
Traditionally the ganges valley and the nile valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their
Intensive agriculture based on irrigation
The township and range land survey system in the United States contributed to which of the following?
A dispersed rural settlement pattern
On the map the shaded area is most associated with which of the following types of agriculture?
Livestock ranching
What kind of agriculture is primarily practiced in the dark shaded areas on the map?
Mediterranean
Which of the following forms of agriculture would best be described as extensive farming?
Cattle ranching and wheat farming
Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following except?
Physical boundaries preventing communal farm practices
Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
Multicropping
Land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear because..
The federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth century imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape
Which of the following is the essential requirement of lowland rice production?
Abundant water
In reading the landscape of the image a geographer will most likely describe the land survey pattern shown as typical of which of the following locations?
A rural agriculture region in the United States
Which of the following terms identifies the type of land survey system shown in the satellite image?
Township and range
Technologies invented during which of the following periods explain how farmland was divided and cultivated as shown in the satellite image?
Second Agricultural Revolution, when land-surveying technology and mechanical plows were developed
Which of the following best describes the pattern of coffee bean production on a global scale?
Within tropical latitudes
Which of the following explains the limitations on the map shown for identifying the agricultural production regions of coffee beans?
It may not show the foothills and upland areas where coffee is grown
If the map was produced at the subnational state or provincial scale as Hawaii is on the map, what changes in pattern would be expected in other parts of the world.
The states in northern Mexico and northern India would not show any production
Sheep production in New Zealand and poultry production in Arkansas produce food animals for human consumption. Which of the following best describes the differences in the agricultural practices and land use for?
Sheep production is an example of extensive agriculture requiring large pastures, whereas poultry production is an example of intensive agriculture often practiced indoors
Explain how patterns of world trade may affect a developing country that exports sugarcane
It could lead to instability and economic failure if there trade is cut off resulting in the not making money.
