Unit 5: Agriculture & Rural Land Use
Human Geo · Unit 5 · Paper 2

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 2” 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

Plantation agriculture

3

Sustainable agriculture practices

4

Agricultural hearths

5

Green Revolution effects

6

Agribusiness and vertical integration

7

Limitations of Von Thünen

8

Von Thünen applied globally

9

Monoculture and its risks

10

Shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn

11

Pastoral nomadism

12

Subsistence vs commercial agriculture

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Rural settlement patterns

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Von Thünen model

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: First, Second and Third agricultural revolutions

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Food desert and food insecurity

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.