This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Society > Human Agriculture – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Human Agriculture Quiz 5 (14 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Major world powers and the countries that contain much of the wealth of the planet are known as A) Site. B) Core. C) Complementarity. D) Periphery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Core. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Rubber, tea, coffee, cocoa, and palm oil is raised in A) Areas of shifting cultivation. B) High latitude zones. C) Market gardens. D) Intensive plantation agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intensive plantation agriculture. 5. Who is the first Human Geographer? He came up with the concept of the Cultural landscape A) Carl Sauer. B) Colin Renfrew. C) Derwent Whittlesay. D) James Rubenstien. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carl Sauer. 6. The earliest known domesticated wheat, barley, and rice crops are thought to have originated in Asia about A) 10, 000 years ago. B) 1.1 million years ago. C) 1, 000 years ago. D) 10 million years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10, 000 years ago. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. In which of the following countries is the largest percentage of workers employed in the primary sector? A) The U.S. B) China. C) Nigeria. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nigeria. 10. Subsidies can include all of the following EXCEPT: A) Crop insurance. B) Financial aid. C) Tax breaks. D) Sustenance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sustenance. 11. 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. 12. The purpose of ..... is to maintain the fertility of the fields. A) Crop rotation. B) Double cropping. C) Transhumance. D) Pastoral nomadism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crop rotation. 13. According to geographer Carl Sauer (who believed something slightly different than others), agriculture probably first originated in A) The Fertile Crescent. B) Southeast Asia. C) South America. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Southeast Asia. 14. During the New Stone Age, people learned to polish stones to make tools like A) Hammers and axes. B) Saws and drills. C) Knives and screw drivers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saws and drills. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesHuman Agriculture Quiz 1Human Agriculture Quiz 2Human Agriculture Quiz 3Human Agriculture Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books