What is your first name?

What is your last name?

What is the purpose of crop rotation?

maintaining fresh products for market

maintaining price supports

maintaining the fertility of fields

responding to shifting consumer preference

reducing transportation costs

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Farmers in more developed and less developed countries share which of the following problems?

access to fertilizers

inadequate income

lack of equipment

surplus production

the declining importance of world markets

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Truck farming is a term that derives from the Middle-English word truck, meaning

cart.

mobility or movement.

subsiding as in subsistence agriculture.

bartering or exchange of commodities.

horse or horse-drawn.

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The primary factor in von Thünen's model for choosing commercial farm products is

land price.

market location.

climate.

soil character.

labor cost.

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Which of the following is NOT a strategy for increasing food supply?

expanding arable land area

ensuring sustainable land productivity for future generations

identifying new food sources

increasing tariffs on grain exports

increasing exports of surplus production

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Farming varies around the world because of ________ across space.

cultural and environmental factors

cultural and economic factors

farmers' personal preference and environmental factors

weather and climate

climate change

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A principal practice of sustainable agriculture is

agribusiness-oriented land management.

a green revolution in the use of chemicals.

the preference for livestock over crops.

the use of pesticide-resistant seed.

careful land management

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Farmers in LDCs choose to grow drug crops for export primarily because of

their market value in MDCs.

their proximity to local markets.

their inability to grow maize.

their disdain for the freedoms enjoyed by developed countries.

their desire to fund terrorist organizations.

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Use the following Map to answer the question that follows.

According to the graph on the growth in human consumption of fish, in about the year 2005, the amount of fish consumed by developing countries exceeded

80 million metric tons.

20 million metric tons.

60 million metric tons.

100 million metric tons.

70 million metric tons.

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Use the following Map to answer the question that follows.

According to map of major world fishing regions, between 10 and 20 million tons of aquatic catch are taken annually from the

northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean.

southeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean.

Antarctic section of the Atlantic Ocean.

eastern central part of the Pacific Ocean.

northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Which is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

Land is cleared by tractors or large work crews.

Debris is mulched to provide the soil with nutrients.

A new site is designated every few years.

A new site is designated every 50 years.

Swiddens not under cultivation are used for mining operations.

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In the United States many farms are integrated into a large food production industry. This is known as

commercial farming.

food processing.

mechanized farming.

mixed crop and livestock farming.

agribusiness.

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