INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE
CUMULATIVE 2025 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
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5 agricultural regions that predominate in developing countries - ANSWER✔✔-1.
pastoral nomadism
2. shifting cultivation
3. intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant
4. intensive subsistence, crops other than rice dominant
5. plantation
6 agricultural regions that predominate in developed countries - ANSWER✔✔-1. mixed
crop and livestock
2. dairying
3. grain
4. ranching
5. Mediterranean
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, 6. commercial gardening`
Derwent Whittlesey - ANSWER✔✔-in 1936, identified 11 main agricultural regions,
plus an area where agriculture was nonexistent; 11 regions are divided between 5 that
are important in developing countries and 6 that are important in developed countries
developing: pastoral nomadism, shifting cultivation, intensive subsistence/wet rice
dominant, intensive subsistence/crops other than rice dominant, plantation
developed: mixed crop and livestock, dairying, grain, ranching, Mediterranean,
commercial gardening
pastoral nomadism - ANSWER✔✔-a form of subsistence agriculture based on the
herding of domesticated animals
shifting cultivation - ANSWER✔✔-a form of subsistence agriculture in which people
shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few
years and left fallow for a relatively long period
slash-and-burn agriculture - ANSWER✔✔-another name for shifting cultivation, so
named because fields are cleared by slashing vegetation and burning the debris
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CUMULATIVE 2025 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
SOLVED ANSWERS/NEWEST UPDATE
5 agricultural regions that predominate in developing countries - ANSWER✔✔-1.
pastoral nomadism
2. shifting cultivation
3. intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant
4. intensive subsistence, crops other than rice dominant
5. plantation
6 agricultural regions that predominate in developed countries - ANSWER✔✔-1. mixed
crop and livestock
2. dairying
3. grain
4. ranching
5. Mediterranean
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, 6. commercial gardening`
Derwent Whittlesey - ANSWER✔✔-in 1936, identified 11 main agricultural regions,
plus an area where agriculture was nonexistent; 11 regions are divided between 5 that
are important in developing countries and 6 that are important in developed countries
developing: pastoral nomadism, shifting cultivation, intensive subsistence/wet rice
dominant, intensive subsistence/crops other than rice dominant, plantation
developed: mixed crop and livestock, dairying, grain, ranching, Mediterranean,
commercial gardening
pastoral nomadism - ANSWER✔✔-a form of subsistence agriculture based on the
herding of domesticated animals
shifting cultivation - ANSWER✔✔-a form of subsistence agriculture in which people
shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few
years and left fallow for a relatively long period
slash-and-burn agriculture - ANSWER✔✔-another name for shifting cultivation, so
named because fields are cleared by slashing vegetation and burning the debris
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