Unit 5: Agriculture & Rural Land Use
Human Geo · Unit 5 · Paper 3

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 3” 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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Von Thünen model

2

Rural settlement patterns

3

Green Revolution effects

4

Plantation agriculture

5

Food desert and food insecurity

6

Subsistence vs commercial agriculture

7

Sustainable agriculture practices

8

Shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn

9

Limitations of Von Thünen

10

Pastoral nomadism

11

Von Thünen applied globally

12

Agricultural hearths

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Agribusiness and vertical integration

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: First, Second and Third agricultural revolutions

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Monoculture and its risks

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Intensive vs extensive 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.