Unit 5: Agriculture & Rural Land Use
Human Geo · Unit 5 · Paper 1

Agriculture & Rural Land Use unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 16 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 5, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
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Intensive vs extensive agriculture

2

Limitations of Von Thünen

3

Agricultural hearths

4

Food desert and food insecurity

5

Agribusiness and vertical integration

6

Von Thünen model

7

Pastoral nomadism

8

Sustainable agriculture practices

9

First, Second and Third agricultural revolutions

10

Von Thünen applied globally

11

Rural settlement patterns

12

Shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Subsistence vs commercial agriculture

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Monoculture and its risks

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Green Revolution effects

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Plantation agriculture

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

Agricultural land use reflects both economic models and technological change. (A) Identify the type of agriculture Von Thünen’s model places in the ring nearest the market. (B) Explain why that activity locates nearest the market in the model. (C) Explain how refrigerated transport has weakened the predictive power of Von Thünen’s model. (D) Define the Green Revolution. (E) Using a specific region, explain one positive economic effect of the Green Revolution. (F) Explain one environmental cost associated with Green Revolution agriculture. (G) Explain how commercial agriculture in the core differs from subsistence agriculture in the periphery with respect to inputs and market orientation.