AP Human Geography

Chapter 11 Study Guide (Part 3)

1. What type of plants are cultivated in commercial gardening?

2. Where are commercial gardening zones typically located?

3. Why is this (referring to the answer for #2)?

4. What innovations have allowed commercial gardening to go on

farther away from the market?

5. What are important crops that are produced on truck farms (list at
least 3)?

6. What do truck farms rely heavily on?

7. What does the word truck refer to in truck farming?

8. Where are most truck farms located in the U.S.?

9. What is Mediterranean agriculture in its traditional form?

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What crops are closely associated with Mediterranean
agriculture?

11.
Which of these are the most valuable commodities in
Mediterranean agriculture?

12.
Like plantation agriculture and truck farming, what
does Mediterranean agriculture rely heavily on?

13.
What types of technology and machinery are required for
commercial dairy farming (List several)?

14.
Why does commercial dairy farming require constant
vigilance?

15.
In the early days of commercial dairy farming why did most
milk have to be consumed on the actual farm?

16.

What is the milkshed?

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What major innovation has allowed dairy farms to locate farther
from the actual market where they are selling their milk and milk
products?
18.
What is the largest fluid milk producing state in the U.S.?

19.
What is the purpose of growing mixed crops and raising livestock
at the same time?

20.

Which product generates the most revenue?

21.
Mixed crop and livestock farming is most closely
associated with which parts of the world?

22.
What has led to the decline of mixed crop and livestock
farming?

23.
What two major specialization trends have emerged in the
Corn Belt of the U.S.?

24.
What constitutes cash-grain farms or commercial grain
farms?

25.

What are factory farms?

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What feature is typically associated with factory farms?

27.
28.

List the various types of grain.

What constitutes commercial grain farming?

29.
Why would commercial grain farming be considered a type
of monoculture?

30.

What has made this possible?

31.
What has this made commercial grain farming heavily
dependent on?

32.

How does livestock ranching differ from pastoralism?

33.
Historically, where have livestock ranches been located
relative to the markers where they sell their products?

34.

Why is this?

35.
How did ranchers typically transport their livestock to the
markets?

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Define extensive agriculture.
37.
What did Johann Hienrich Von Thnen observe over years of
traveling from his property to various towns in his region of Germany?

38.

What did he develop based on these observations?

39.

What does his model assume about land quality?

40.
According to Von Thnens model, what factor determines how
farmers can make the most profitable use of their land?

41.
What has Arild Angelsens research shown about the relationship
between profitable land use and deforestation?