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

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Rural settlement patterns

3

Green Revolution effects

4

Plantation agriculture

5

Food desert and food insecurity

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Subsistence vs commercial agriculture

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Sustainable agriculture practices

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Shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn

9

Limitations of Von Thünen

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Pastoral nomadism

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Von Thünen applied globally

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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

TWO STIMULI. Examine the two stimuli, described below. Stimulus 1 — A diagram of the von Thünen model of agricultural land use. A single central market is surrounded by four concentric rings: nearest the market, market gardening and dairying; next, forest for fuel and building material; next, an extensive belt of field crops and grain; and outermost, ranching and livestock grazing, beyond which land is left uncultivated. A second, smaller set of rings appears around a navigable river running through the diagram, distorting the pattern along the waterway. Stimulus 2 — A table titled "Share of Employment in Agriculture, Selected Countries, 2022" (Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT modeled estimates): Ethiopia 63%, India 43%, Brazil 9%, Poland 8%, United States 2%, United Kingdom 1%.

A. Identify the land use located closest to the market in the von Thünen model.

B. Describe the assumption about transportation cost on which the von Thünen model depends.

C. Using Stimulus 2, describe the relationship between a country’s level of economic development and its share of employment in agriculture.

D. Explain why the rings in the von Thünen model are distorted along the navigable river.

E. Explain one reason the von Thünen model does not fully describe contemporary agricultural land use.

F. Explain how mechanization contributes to the pattern shown in Stimulus 2.

G. Explain one environmental consequence of the commercial agriculture practiced in countries at the bottom of the table in Stimulus 2.