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What is Township and Range? rectangular land division What is the basic unit
and shape of that system? 1 square mile
And where did it start?
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What is primogeniture?
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What are the most important techniques that have shaped the Green Revolution?
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Where is the demand for organic foods the greatest? poor countries
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According to Carl Sauer, what was the earliest plant domestication ? involved
planting root crops
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What is shifting cultivation? form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which
fields are rotated after short periods of crop production
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According to Von Thunen which commodity is found closest to the town?
market-oriented gardens, milk producers Why? delivery cost, perishibality
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IR 36 was the most widely grown crop produced by the Green Revolution. What
is it? rice
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Growing cash crops in addition to food crops was forced on farmers in by whom?
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Why were societies practicing subsistence farming quite equal before European
intervention? communal owenership
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What is agribusiness?
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Why do some regions produce more cheese than milk? they are outside major
milksheds
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Did Agriculture start in only one location and then diffuse all over the world?
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Which 2 crops form the basis of the Green Revolution? corn and rice
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What part of the world has the most commercial farms? U.S.
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What is hunting and gathering? type of nomadism, all humans obtained food
before agriculture
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Colonial powers transported rubber trees from Brazil to what part of the world?
Southeast Asia
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How did Spanish invaders of Middle America lay out villages and towns? like a
grid
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What is the most prevalent residential pattern in the worlds agricultural areas?
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Central American and South American farmers have been doing what in order to
provide beef for export?