APHG Unit 5

Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
Want to retake the Unit 5 Exam? Here's how:
- Write down your score (number correct/28, not percentage), then review the exam on AP Classroom and write in a complete sentence the reason you missed every incorrect answer. This can not be typed. It must be hand written. See me if you have a specific question about any of them if you still don't understand why you were wrong.
- Turn this in directly to me and we will schedule a retake.
- Whatever you make on the retake will be averaged with your original grade, and that will replace it in the gradebook.
***Starting this quarter, unexcused late work will be worth no more than 50%***
5.1 Introduction to Agriculture
- Intensive: market (commercial) gardening, plantation, mixed crop/livestock
- Extensive: shifting cultivation, nomadic herding, ranching
5.2 Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods
- Rural settlement patterns are classified as clustered, dispersed, or linear
- Survey Methods PPT
5.3 Agricultural Origins and Diffusions
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud (pages 88-100, you can stop when you get to "Divine Intervention") There will be a writing assignment for this reading on February 2/3, so read it by then.
- Pizza and the Columbian Exchange activity PPT
5.4 The Second Agricultural Revolution
- The Second Agricultural Revolution, which began in the 1700s, used the advances of the Industrial Revolution to increase food supplies and support population growth. Agriculture benefited from mechanization and improved knowledge of fertilizers, soils, and selective breeding practices for plants and animals.
- New technology and increased food production in the second agricultural revolution led to better diets, longer life expectancies, and more people available for work in factories.
5.5 The Green Revolution
- The Third Agricultural Revolution, which began in the 1960s, included the Green Revolution and an agribusiness model that controlled the development, planting, processing, and selling of food products.
- The Green Revolution was characterized in agriculture by the use of high-yield seeds, increased use of chemicals, and mechanized farming.
- The Green Revolution had positive and negative consequences for both human populations and the environment.
- Create a chart titled Three Agricultural Revolutions that includes: When? Where? What changed? Impact on history? of each of the revolutions. Read this article for more information on the Green Revolution: All You Wanted to Know About the Green Revolution
5.6 Agricultural Production Regions
- How do economic forces influence agricultural practices?
- commercial or subsistence?
- intensive or extensive?
- FarmersOnly.com Project
5.7 Spatial Organization of Agriculture
- Why are large-scale commercial agricultural operations replacing small family farms?
- How do complex commodity chains link production and consumption of agricultural products?
- What are economies of scale, and how has technology increased economies of scale in the agricultural sector and the carrying capacity of the land?
5.8 Von Thunen Model
5.9 The Global System of Agriculture
- Story Map Assignment: Choose 1 of the following story maps to read, then write 3 paragraphs about it: 1st paragraph: summarize story map. 2nd paragraph: how much did you learn (give specific examples). 3rd paragraph: write your personal connection/reaction
5.10 Consequences of Agricultural Practices
- Factory Farming Activity
5.11 Challenges of Contemporary Agriculture
- Case Study: West Tennessee Whole Hog (Texas Monthly article)
- America Revealed: Food Machine (Questions)
- Food Machine Questions
- Food Desert GIS Activity
5.12 Women in Agriculture
Enrichment
- Immigration and Agriculture