AP Human Geography Unit 5: Land Use and Agriculture

AP Human Geography Unit 5 Multiple Choice Questions 1. The map above shows the origin and diffusion of (A) commercial agriculture (B) vegetative planting (C) swidden agriculture (D) plantation farming (E) pastoral nomadism Vegetative planting 2. In which of the following areas is livestock most likely to be sold in the domestic market? (A) Argentina (B) the Middle East (C) the United States (D) New Zealand (E) Uruguay The United States 3. Two independent seed agriculture hearths that originated in the Western Hemisphere were (A) western India and northern China (B) North America and the Caribbean (C) southern Mexico and North America (D) southern Mexico and Peru (E) Peru and western Africa Southern Mexico and Peru 4. Which of the following may NOT be categorized as a primary activity? (A) refining petroleum into gasoline (B) agriculture (C) fishing (D) raising animals (E) forestry Refining petroleum into gasoline 5. Labor-intensive intertillage is most likely to take place in areas were farmers practice (A) pastoral nomadism (B) dairy farming (C) grain farming (D) livestock ranching (E) shifting cultivation Shifting cultivation 6. In the Mediterranean area, the most important cash crops are (A) olives and grapes (B) citrus fruits and tree nuts (C) tomatoes and lettuce (D) cotton and sugarcane (E) rubber and tobacco Olives and grapes 7. A farmer who produces only enough food for the immediate family is practicing (A) shifting cultivation (B) intensive agriculture (C) vegetative planting (D) subsistence farming (E) seed agriculture Subsistence farming 8. According to von Thünen, which of the following activities would take place in the outermost ring around a market center? (A) market gardening (B) dairy farming (C) forestry 1/4 Animal grazing (D) raising field crops (E) animal grazing 9. The land survey system that makes use of natural features to mark irregular parcels of land is called (A) the rectangular survey system (B) the metes and bounds approach (C) the long-lot survey system (D) primogeniture (E) the township and range survey system The metes and bounds approach 10. Both shifting agriculturalists and commercial farmers practice crop rotation, but commercial farmers (A) make less use of fertilizers (B) do not raise livestock (C) are less likely to allow fields to remain fallow (D) do not feed their crops to animals (E) do not distribute their workload evenly over the year Are less likely to allow fields to remain fallow 11. Which of the following are both forms of extensive subsistence farming? (A) hunting and gathering and pastoral nomadism (B) shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism (C) dairy farming and plantation farming (D) truck farming and shifting cultivation (E) grain farming and livestock ranching Shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism 12. Early hunter and gatherer societies differed from early agricultural societies in that hunter and gatherer societies were (A) less likely to be characterized by gender inequality (B) more likely to require more hours of work per person (C) more likely to practice polytheism (D) less likely to base division of labor on gender (E) more likely to have job specialization Less likely to be characterized by gender inequality 13. The Green Revolution has had the least impact on people who live in (A) Southeast Asia (B) China (C) Sub-Saharan Africa (D) India (E) the Philippines Sub-Saharan Africa 14. On the map above, the shaded area is associated with which of the following types of agriculture? (A) dairy farming (B) plantation farming (C) grain farming (D) fruit farming (E) livestock ranching Livestock ranching 15. Which of the following does NOT characterize modern industrial agriculture? (A) specialized crops (B) signing agreements with buyer-processors (C) global exchange (D) prices met by individual needs of farmers (E) participation by farmers in less developed countries Prices met by individual needs of farmers 2/4 16. Increasing global food production by expanding the amount of land under cultivation is limited by the fact that (A) technology is lacking in many less developed countries (B) most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation (C) few young people want to be farmers (D) governments are unwilling to give up public lands (E) global warming has put many previously cultivated areas under water Most of the world's arable land is already under cultivation 17. In which of the following areas was rice probably domesticated earliest? (A) Southeast Asia (B) northern China (C) Japan (D) Central America (E) Mongolia Southeast Asia 18. Refrigerated ships and railroad cars most directly benefitted the long-distance transportation to global markets of (A) wheat (B) fruit (C) rice (D) cotton (E) beef Beef 19. In which of the following areas has desertification had the strongest negative impact on food production? (A) Mexico (B) eastern China (C) the African Sahel (D) India (E) Peru The African Sahel 20. Which of the following accurately describes the evolution of food production from the earliest development to the latest? (A) seed agriculture, vegetative planting, the Columbian Exchange (B) vegetative planting, the Columbian Exchange, seed agriculture Vegetative agriculture, seed agriculture, the Columbian exchange (C) the Columbian Exchange, vegetative planting, seed agriculture (D) seed agriculture, the Columbian Exchange, vegetative agriculture (E) vegetative agriculture, seed agriculture, the Columbian Exchange 21. In what area of the United States are land parcels most likely to be rectilinear? (A) along the Pacific Coast (B) the Southeast (C) the Northeast (D) the Midwest (E) the Southwest The midwest 22. In which of the following countries is the largest percentage of workers employed in the primary sector? Nigeria (A) the United States (B) China (C) Nigeria 3/4 (D) Mexico (E) the United Kingdom 23. Which of the following was NOT a commodity first raised in the Americas and traded to the Eastern Hemisphere during the Columbian Exchange? (A) beans (B) wheat (C) squash (D) maize (corn) (E) potatoes Wheat 24. One difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture is that with commercial agriculture (A) more people work in the primary sector of the economy (B) farm sizes grow smaller (C) less machinery is used (D) crop yields are smaller (E) more extensive use is made of fertilizers More extensive use is made of fertilizers 25. The "world's breadbasket" is located in (A) the coastal areas of India (B) northern China (C) the pampas of South America (D) the prairies of North America (E) Australia The prairies of North America 4/4