Download AP HUG Agricultural Geography Test Review Sheet

AP HUG Agricultural Geography
Test Review Sheet
know the maps
Geographers – know the major ideas of each
1. Borlaug
2. Boserup
3. Koppen
4. Sauer
5. von Thunen
6. Whittlesey
questions
1. What are the basic characteristics of subsistence agricultural?
2. What are the basic characteristics of commercial agricultural?
3. What are the most widely produced grains (global scale)?
4. Where in the world would the agricultural systems be found?
subsistence agricultural, shifting cultivation, pastoral nomadism, truck
farming, Mediterranean agriculture, plantation agriculture
5. Which invention is largely responsible for limiting cattle ranching?
6. What cultural factors might limit the production of:
beef? pork? wine? krill?
7. What are the positive and negative results of the Green Revolution?
8. What are the differences between dairy farming, mixed crop and livestock
ranching, livestock fattening and grain agriculture?
9. In which areas (countries/regions) are the following agricultural products most
predominant?
corn (maize), wet rice, livestock ranching, grapes and olives, wheat
10. What is the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the
economy?
11. How did the townships and rural land in the northwest and Midwest develop as a
grid pattern?
12. How do government subsidies affect agricultural production and prices?
chronology
What are the major characteristics of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Agricultural Revolutions?
Place in correct chronological order:
hunter/gatherer, sustainable/organic agriculture, green revolution, vegetative
planting, seed planting
basic vocabulary
1. organic/sustainable agriculture
2. agribusiness
3. industrial agriculture
4. GMOs/GM
5. aquaculture