AP Human Geography Unit 5 Exam Questions with Correct Solutions New Version (Already Passed)
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AP Human Geography Unit 5
AP Human Geography Unit 5 Exam Questions with Correct Solutions New Version (Already Passed)
Adaptive Strategies - Answers Describes a society's system of economic production
-helps explain some of the differences between societies that are influenced by economy.
Agrarian - Answers People or ...
AP Human Geography Unit 5 Exam Questions with Correct Solutions New Version 2024-2025 (Already
Passed)
Adaptive Strategies - Answers Describes a society's system of economic production
-helps explain some of the differences between societies that are influenced by economy.
Agrarian - Answers People or societies that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest ext.
-Where agrarian people and societies are located is not generally near cities ext. but these types of
people are essential to the way that we live and our ability to live in cities.
Agribusiness - Answers Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the
food-proccessing industry, usually throughownership by large corporations.
-It influences how things are grown and what people eat.
Agricultural Industrialization - Answers The use of machinery in agriculture, like tractors etc
-Makes it a lot faster for mfarmers to yield crop.
Agricultural landscape - Answers The land that we farm on and what we choose to put were on our
fields.
-Effects how much yield one gets from their plants.
Agricultural location model - Answers a model designed by Von Thunen, that depending on the cost of
transportation and the value of hte product, different types of farming are conducted at different
distances from a city. Site or human factors were not considered in this model.
-when deciding whree to locate a farm, a farmermust take into consideration how much it costs to
ransport their product. Location of farm affects what a farmer will produce (if in rural area farmer is less
likely to grow highly perishable and bulky products)
Agricultural origins - Answers Through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and
began to domesticate them and use for there own use. Carl Sauer points out vegetativve planting likely
was roginated in SE Asia and seed agriculture originated in W. India, N. China and Ethiopia.
-Without the development of agriculture we would still ahve a relatively small and likely uneducated
population
Agriculture - Answers The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation
of crops and hte raising of livestock for subsistence or economic gain.
It has influenced the growth of areas and human society.
, Animal Domestication - Answers Domestication of animals for selling or using by products.
-Helped us obtain meat with out having to go out and kill our food right before dinner.
Aquaculture - Answers The cultivation of aquatic organisms especially for food.
-Allowed us to use the sea and its abundant sources of food for our benefit.
Biorevolution - Answers The revolution of biotechnology and the use of it in societies.
-Has allowed us to revolutionize our societies
Biotechnology - Answers Using living organisms in a useful way to produce commercial products like
pest resistant crops.
-Has helped the farmers grow a more bountiful harvest through the using of pesticides etc.
Collective farm - Answers an agricultural production unit including a number of farm households or
villages working together under state control.
-a type of farming that certain countries use that influences the amount of food produced and sold
Commercial agriculture (initensive,extensive) - Answers Ariculture undertaken primarily to generate
products for sale off the ffarm. Two types: intensive(ex: terracing in South Asia) and extensive (ex:
farming in Southern MN)
Core/Periphery - Answers The areas in the world that include MDC's are called the core and the area of
the world that contains the LDC's is referred to as the periphery.
-allowed us to divide the world and describe it more easily.
Crop Rotation - Answers The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to
avoid exhausting the soil.
-Takes up large areas of land but keepsland usable for future generations.
Cultivation Regions - Answers Regions where there is agricultural activity
-Areas with agricultural activity generally are not a place where a big city would be located-affects
location sof different areas.
Dairying - Answers The farming and sale/distribution of milk and milk products.
-gets is calcium, allows for people to move to the city because there is a way of getting milk or milk
products.
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