North America - Agriculture Flashcards
What is Commercial Agriculture?
A type of agriculture where a select group grows food for it to be sold.
What percentage of the North American population produces excess food?
About 2%.
What is the Green Revolution?
The application of new technology and eco-friendly processes to agriculture.
What is a Commodity Market?
A market that trades in primary rather than in manufactured products (things like sugar instead of manufactured things like plastic.
Why do Rural areas tend to have older populations?
Younger people are more likely to move from rural areas because less people for farming are needed.
What is the most successful product in the American midwest?
Corn is the most successful product in the American midwest.
What is the most successful product in the Great Plains?
Wheat is the most successful product in the Great Plains.
What is Spring Wheat?
Wheat that is planted in the winter so that it grows in the spring.
Most North American grown food is sold in what?
Commodity markets.
Commodity markets set what?
The price of food.
A process which selects desirable gene characteristics for plants, provides farmers with ________.
Hybrid seeds.
