This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Society > Human > Human Agriculture – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Human Agriculture Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Von Thunen's model can best be used to explain the location of which of the following types of agriculture? A) Shifting cultivation in the tropics of South America. B) Mediterranean agriculture in central Chile. C) Intensive subsistence in South China. D) Dairying in the Northeast United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dairying in the Northeast United States. 2. Which of the following is NOT a company that is mentioned in the Pixar movies? A) Buy N Large. B) Dinoco. C) Lightyear Tires. D) Pizza Land Pizza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pizza Land Pizza. 3. How did early humans make canoes? A) Using branches from a tree. B) Wood, clay, and bones. C) They hollowed out logs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They hollowed out logs. 4. In the US, women make up how much of farmers? A) 1/8. B) 1/5. C) 1/2. D) 1/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1/3. 5. A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing ..... A) Commercial farming. B) Crop rotation. C) Slash-and-burn agriculture. D) Shifting cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crop rotation. 6. What magazine covers the story of Darline Graf? A) Women's Farming Magazine. B) Stories of Farming Magazine. C) Farming News Magazine. D) Successful Farming Magazine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Successful Farming Magazine. 7. What change defined a shift during the Neolithic Era? A) Climate. B) People began to produce food instead of gathering it. C) Migration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People began to produce food instead of gathering it. 8. Which NFL team has never been to the Super Bowl? A) Buccaneers. B) Bills. C) Seahawks. D) Lions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lions. 9. The production of crops without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers is called ..... A) Organic Agriculture. B) Synthetic Agriculture. C) Primary economic activities. D) Seed crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organic Agriculture. 10. Which is the best example of Extensive farming practices? A) A Chinese Rice Farmer who worker 12 hours each day on their fields. B) A Brazillian cattle farmer who makes sure his cows eat organic feed. C) An American farmer in Iowa who oversees 10, 000 acres with robots and drones to help her harvest Canola. D) A European produce company CEO who has 3, 000 employees and harvests a large variety of crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An American farmer in Iowa who oversees 10, 000 acres with robots and drones to help her harvest Canola. 11. The primary factor in von Thunen's model for choosing commercial farm products is A) Labor cost. B) Soil character. C) Climate. D) Market location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Market location. 12. Which is the best example of fracking? A) A farmer drills a 500 meter pipe into his land and installs 5 wells to extract oil. B) A big corporation drills a 1 km deep pipe into the land and pumps oil. C) A transport company builds a 2, 000 mile long oil pipeline from Alaska to North Dakota. D) A contractor drills laterally from the bottom of an oil well to extend the area being accessed for oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A contractor drills laterally from the bottom of an oil well to extend the area being accessed for oil. 13. What is the name of fuel that comes from corn? A) Ethanol. B) Biodiesel. C) Diesel. D) Gasoline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethanol. 14. Because of cultural and environmental factors across space, ..... varies around the world. A) Economies. B) Farming. C) Populations. D) Subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farming. 15. In less developed countries, what percentage of agricultural production are women responsible for? A) 75% to 95%. B) 70% to 80%. C) 60% to 80%. D) 60% to 75%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 60% to 80%. 16. Small amount of farmers farming large amounts of land describes this type of agriculture A) Subsistent. B) Hunt and Gather. C) Commercial. D) Industrial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commercial. 17. Farming led to many innovations like A) The calendar. B) The plow. C) Irrigation systems. D) All of the answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the answers are correct. 18. Which of the following provides the best example of quaternary economic activity? A) An economic consultant who makes suggestions to companies as to which agricultural products to buy (coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market trends. B) An American-based facility that purchases government-subsidized corn and manufactures food additives and high fructose corn syrup. C) A public land grant college that develops a variety of rice that does not require flood irrigation and can be grown in semi-arid countries whose farmers are challenged by frequent drought. D) A subsistence farmer in Ecuador that sells some crop surplus to the market, but farms to support a family who lives on less than two dollars a day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An economic consultant who makes suggestions to companies as to which agricultural products to buy (coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market trends. 19. What is one thing that did NOT happen to Earth during the ice ages? A) Ocean levels were lower than they are now. B) Areas that are now under water were dry land then. C) All the ice melted. D) Land bridges between continents were exposed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All the ice melted. 20. Major world powers and the countries that contain much of the wealth of the planet are known as A) Core. B) Site. C) Complementarity. D) Periphery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Core. 21. Which agricultural revolution introduced Machines to farming for the first time? A) Neolithic. B) Green. C) Second. D) Third. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Second. 22. Why did people have to learn to make clothes and build shelters? A) They didn't. B) Because they wanted to. C) Because they moved to a climate that were colder than those in East Africa. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because they moved to a climate that were colder than those in East Africa. 23. Rubber, tea, coffee, cocoa, and palm oil is raised in A) High latitude zones. B) Market gardens. C) Intensive plantation agriculture. D) Areas of shifting cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intensive plantation agriculture. 24. Who is the first Human Geographer? He came up with the concept of the Cultural landscape A) Carl Sauer. B) Derwent Whittlesay. C) James Rubenstien. D) Colin Renfrew. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carl Sauer. 25. The earliest known domesticated wheat, barley, and rice crops are thought to have originated in Asia about A) 10, 000 years ago. B) 10 million years ago. C) 1.1 million years ago. D) 1, 000 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10, 000 years ago. 26. The decline in the number of farmers in MDCs can best be described as a consequence of A) Push/pull economic factors, including the lack of opportunity in rural areas and higher paying jobs in urban areas. B) Push/pull economic factors, including greater opportunities in rural areas and lower paying jobs in urban areas. C) The increase of populations in urban areas and the reduced population in rural areas. D) The spread of disease and starvation in rural areas, which reduced the populations of farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push/pull economic factors, including the lack of opportunity in rural areas and higher paying jobs in urban areas. 27. Which of the following explains the diffusion and successful cultivation of many plants and animals in new regions of the world through the Columbian Exchange? A) Diffusion of plants and animals filled the loss in many areas from a number of plant and animal extinctions. B) Navigational technology allowed ships to travel more efficiently, enabling safe transport of plants and animals to new destinations. C) The plants and animals diffused to a region with climate and geography similar to that of their point of domestication. D) The plants and animals diffused only a short distance away from their point of domestication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The plants and animals diffused to a region with climate and geography similar to that of their point of domestication. 28. In which of the following countries is the largest percentage of workers employed in the primary sector? A) The U.S. B) Nigeria. C) Mexico. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nigeria. 29. Subsidies can include all of the following EXCEPT: A) Sustenance. B) Financial aid. C) Tax breaks. D) Crop insurance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sustenance. 30. Intensive subsistence agriculture would be found in A) Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. B) Latin America and Southeast Asia. C) East Asia and South Asia. D) East Asia and Southwest Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesSociety QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesHuman Agriculture Quiz 1Human Agriculture Quiz 2Human Agriculture Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books