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AGRICULTURE- UNIT 5 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: What is a Dispersed settlement?

Answer:

Individual farms widely spaced

Question 2: What was the third layer of Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

Livestock farming

Question 3: What was the sixth layer of Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

Other resources (non-agricultural)

Question 4: What is a Long lot?

Answer:

It divides land into narrow strips back from rivers, roads, or canals.

Question 5: What is Dairy farming?

Answer:

Farming that is mechanized. Also, the product is used for human consumption.

Question 6: What is a nucleated settlement?

Answer:

Intense cultivation with homes clustered into a village

Question 7: Who was Johann Heinrich von Thunen?

Answer:

He was a German scientist.

Question 8: What are Metes and bounds?

Answer:

When land is laid out based on geographic regions (located in southern US)

Question 9: What is a Federal rectangular grid?

Answer:

Plots of land (Ex. Homestead Act)

Question 10: What was the center of Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

The central city/market

Question 11: What was the first layer of Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

Markets and feedlots

Question 12: What was the fourth layer of Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

Grain farming

Question 13: What is agriculture?

Answer:

The purposeful tending to crops and raising of livestock in order to produce food and fiber.

Question 14: What is Mediterranean farming?

Answer:

Farming style that works best with dry soil and warm weather.

Question 15: What is a Linear village?

Answer:

Follows a stream of road

Question 16: What is Township and range?

Answer:

Mileage (Ex. Northwest Ordinance)

Question 17: What is specialized fruit production?

Answer:

Orchards that can be picked by machines or migrant workers(move seasonally).

Question 18: What is a truck farm?

Answer:

They produce mostly vegetables for the market. They are picked by machine or migrant workers (move seasonally).

Question 19: What was the fifth layer of Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

Livestock grazing (ranching)

Question 20: What is a Cluster village?

Answer:

An intersection of roads

Question 21: What is livestock ranching?

Answer:

Farming livestock on a large amount of land (Ex. Great Plains)

Question 22: How applicable is Von Thunen's model today?

Answer:

Partly (Parts of a country are specialized but it doesn't create a perfect circle)

Question 23: What is mixed livestock with crop production?

Answer:

The crops that are being grown feed the livestock.Question 24: What are the differences in climate regions and agricultural regions?

Answer:

There are no differences. They seem to match up.

Question 25: How has von Thunen's model been modified?

Answer:

It now takes account climate and that a physical feature that alters the environment that not everyone can access

Question 26: What was Johann Heinrich von Thunen's model?

Answer:

It was a model of how, classically, land use was laid out.

Question 27: What is grain farming?

Answer:

Farms that only grow grains.

Question 28: What were some assumptions Von Thunen's model based around?

Answer:

The city is located centrally within an "Isolated State." Soil quality and climate are consistent.The land is completely flat and has no rivers or mountains.