APHG UNIT 5 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Agribusiness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different
steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
Agricultural Production in the United States - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Truck and fruit farming exists in the
relatively mild climates of central California and the southeast coast.
Range livestock dominates agricultural production in the western region of the country.
The midwest states including Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and parts of Kansas and South Dakota
produce feed grains and livestock and are collectively known as the "Corn Belt".
Mixed farming with crop specialties, such as cotton, dominate agricultural production in the southeast.
Wheat and small grains are common in the states and parts of states in the Midwest that do not
concentrate in corn production.
Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Defined as the growing of crops or tending of livestock for
subsistence purposes and/or for sale or exchange.
Aquaculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Basically fish farming, involving breeding of fish in freshwater
ponds, lakes, or canals or in estuaries or bays that have been fenced off.
Biomass - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Alternative energy source that involves converting a variety of
biological materials- crops, vegetation, and human and animal waste- into fuel for automobile and
engines.
Biopharming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A particular form of biotechnology in which genes from other life
forms (e.g., plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, or humans) are inserted into a host plant.
Biotechnology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Includes all technological improvements on biological systems to
either make or enhance specific agricultural goods or food products.
Capital-Intensive vs. Labor-Intensive Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Capital-intensive methods use
mechanical goods, including machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of
agricultural goods, a process requiring very little human labor.
, Labor-intensive goods use human hands in large abundance to produce a given amount of output.
Commercial Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Involves food production primarily for sale from a
farm. Often involves sale of farm goods to food-processing companies rather than directly to consumers.
Commercial Grain Farming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Includes wheat and corn; especially prevalent in
American Great Plains, southern Russia, and increasingly in China.
Large portion of output goes toward feeding livestock.
In general, meat generates more profit than grain at market, thus many farmers choose to convert grain
into meat by feeding it to livestock.
Commercial Livestock Production - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Two major forms include livestock ranching
and dairying. Livestock ranching is widespread throughout much of Australia, western North America,
South America, southern Africa, and western Asia. Dairying is especially prevalent in northern Europe
and the northern United States.
Crop Rotation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A farming method that involves rotating the sequence of crops
planted in a particular field to avoid depleting nutrients in the soil as different crops use different
nutrients in the growing process. Through rotation, the soil can be replenished without the use of
synthetic fertilizers.
Deforestation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In rapidly growing developing countries, the need for fuel-wood
is increasing quite dramatically, leading to deforestation. In Central and South America millions of
hectares converted to pasture on an annual basis, primarily for beef cattle destined for American meat
market.
Desertification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When marginal lands, typically on the fringes of the desert, such
as the Sahel Region south of the Sahara Desert in Africa, are overcultivated or overgrazed, the soil gets
stripped of any existing vegetation and becomes increasingly desert-like.
Economic Systems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In subsistence economies, goods and services created for
use by producer and his or her family. In commercial (market) economies, producers produce goods and
services with the goal of making a profit. In planned economies, government determines both supply
and price of goods and services produced by citizens of that country.
Agribusiness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different
steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
Agricultural Production in the United States - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Truck and fruit farming exists in the
relatively mild climates of central California and the southeast coast.
Range livestock dominates agricultural production in the western region of the country.
The midwest states including Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and parts of Kansas and South Dakota
produce feed grains and livestock and are collectively known as the "Corn Belt".
Mixed farming with crop specialties, such as cotton, dominate agricultural production in the southeast.
Wheat and small grains are common in the states and parts of states in the Midwest that do not
concentrate in corn production.
Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Defined as the growing of crops or tending of livestock for
subsistence purposes and/or for sale or exchange.
Aquaculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Basically fish farming, involving breeding of fish in freshwater
ponds, lakes, or canals or in estuaries or bays that have been fenced off.
Biomass - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Alternative energy source that involves converting a variety of
biological materials- crops, vegetation, and human and animal waste- into fuel for automobile and
engines.
Biopharming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A particular form of biotechnology in which genes from other life
forms (e.g., plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, or humans) are inserted into a host plant.
Biotechnology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Includes all technological improvements on biological systems to
either make or enhance specific agricultural goods or food products.
Capital-Intensive vs. Labor-Intensive Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Capital-intensive methods use
mechanical goods, including machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of
agricultural goods, a process requiring very little human labor.
, Labor-intensive goods use human hands in large abundance to produce a given amount of output.
Commercial Agriculture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Involves food production primarily for sale from a
farm. Often involves sale of farm goods to food-processing companies rather than directly to consumers.
Commercial Grain Farming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Includes wheat and corn; especially prevalent in
American Great Plains, southern Russia, and increasingly in China.
Large portion of output goes toward feeding livestock.
In general, meat generates more profit than grain at market, thus many farmers choose to convert grain
into meat by feeding it to livestock.
Commercial Livestock Production - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Two major forms include livestock ranching
and dairying. Livestock ranching is widespread throughout much of Australia, western North America,
South America, southern Africa, and western Asia. Dairying is especially prevalent in northern Europe
and the northern United States.
Crop Rotation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A farming method that involves rotating the sequence of crops
planted in a particular field to avoid depleting nutrients in the soil as different crops use different
nutrients in the growing process. Through rotation, the soil can be replenished without the use of
synthetic fertilizers.
Deforestation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In rapidly growing developing countries, the need for fuel-wood
is increasing quite dramatically, leading to deforestation. In Central and South America millions of
hectares converted to pasture on an annual basis, primarily for beef cattle destined for American meat
market.
Desertification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When marginal lands, typically on the fringes of the desert, such
as the Sahel Region south of the Sahara Desert in Africa, are overcultivated or overgrazed, the soil gets
stripped of any existing vegetation and becomes increasingly desert-like.
Economic Systems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In subsistence economies, goods and services created for
use by producer and his or her family. In commercial (market) economies, producers produce goods and
services with the goal of making a profit. In planned economies, government determines both supply
and price of goods and services produced by citizens of that country.
