AP Human Geography Agriculture Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

Agribusiness - Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership or large corporations Agriculture Industrialization - the mechanization of the farming process to increase productivity and profits Agricultural Location Model - The model constructed by Von Thunen which shows that the center of a city is dairy and market gardening, forest, grains and field crops, and the outer ring is ranching *Von Thunen also has a formula to figure out the maximum amount a farmer could pay for using the land without losing profit Agriculture - The deliberate effort to modify a potion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain Animal Domestication - When nomads started to domesticate animals to either hunt along with them or be used for livestock Aquaculture - When people have a "fish farm" meaning that they keep a population of fish on a certain amount of land and raise them to be sold Biotechnology - The exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes Cereal Grain - A grass yielding grain for food Commercial Agriculture - Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farmCore/periphery - The idea that core countries rely on periphery countries for their raw materials or agricultural products Crop rotation - The planting of different types of crops each year to replenish the soil with nutrients used up by the previous crop Dairying - A class of agricultural enterprise, used for long-term production of milk from animals like cows, goats and sheep Desertification - Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting Double Cropping - The growing of two crops per year to double the harvest Primary - When subsistence farming using hunting and gathering techniques or pastoral nomadism are used Secondary - The industrial sectors of the economy. Uses the raw materials from Primary to make products for trading or selling Tertiary - Involve the service sectors of the economy. People are involved in selling commodities rather than producing them Quaternary - Digital services such as eBay and Amazon and cell phone services where the service isn't tangible