| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The maximum number of people that an environment can support. | Carrying Capacity | 78%
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| The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. | Biodiversity | 74%
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| A region of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. | Fertile Crescent | 74%
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| A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms that are harmful to cultivated plants or animals. | Pesticides | 74%
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| An economic model that suggested a pattern for the types of products that farmers would produce at different positions relative to the market where they sold their goods. | Von Thunen’s Land Use Model | 74%
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| The practice of raising and harvesting fish and other forms of food that live in water. | Aquaculture | 70%
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| A rural settlement pattern where family homes and farm buildings are located close together, with farmland surrounding them. | Clustered Settlement | 70%
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| A series of laws enacted by the British Government that enabled landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use that had previously been common land used by peasant farmers. | Enclosure Acts | 70%
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| A community where there is no access to fresh, healthy, affordable food options because there is a lack of food or grocery stores or farmers markets. | Food Desert | 70%
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| Land that is capable of producing food and suitable for farming. | Arable Land | 67%
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| Plots of land used for growing food that are farmed collectively and used to benefit the whole community. | Community-Supported Agriculture | 67%
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| The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil. | Crop Rotation | 67%
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| Raising animals for the purpose of harvesting milk. | Dairy Farming | 67%
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| The removal of large tracts of forest by natural or manmade means. | Deforestation | 67%
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| A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. | Dispersed Settlement | 67%
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| Growing of grains, primarily wheat, for the consumption of people. | Grain Farming | 67%
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| Crops that are not essential to human survival but have a high profit margin. | Luxury Crops | 67%
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| Specializing in the growing of a single crop. | Monoculture | 67%
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| Food produced without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or other unnatural processes. | Organic Food | 67%
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| When soil loses its ability to support plant growth and is more easily eroded by wind or water. | Soil Degradation | 67%
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| When humans build a series of steps into the side of a hill, creating flat surfaces for the purpose of agriculture. | Terrace Farming | 67%
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| The theory that when something is in high demand (land near the market), it is going to cost more. | Bid-Rent Theory | 63%
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| A geographical theory that states that the interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases. | Distance Decay | 63%
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| The planting and harvesting of the same parcel of land twice a year. | Double Cropping | 63%
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| A crop whose genetic structure has been altered to make it more useful for human purposes. | Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) | 63%
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| The process of diverting water from its natural course or location to aid in the production of crops. | Irrigation | 63%
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| A rural survey method used by the French and in regions of North America previously dominated by the French that involves long rectangular plots of farmland along rivers that have equal access to the water. | Long Lot | 63%
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| When farmers grow food crops to feed themselves and their families. | Subsistence Agriculture | 63%
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| The global movement of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas following the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, | Columbian Exchange | 59%
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| When crops are grown for profit only and not for personal consumption. | Commercial Agriculture | 59%
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| The transition of land from fertile to arid. | Desertification | 59%
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| Agriculture that uses fewer inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used. | Extensive Farming | 59%
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| Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a fast rate. | Feedlot | 59%
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| Agriculture that involves greater inputs of capital and paid labor relative to the amount of space being used. | Intensive Farming | 59%
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| An integrated system where crops grown are used to feed the livestock on the same farm. | Mixed Crop/Livestock Farming | 59%
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| A farm on which no one lives and the planting and harvesting is performed by farmers who live nearby or by migrant workers. | Suitcase Farm | 59%
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| Use of the Earth’s resources that ensure their availability for future generations to use. | Sustainability | 59%
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| Raising plants and animals for human use. | Domestication | 56%
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| A chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility. | Fertilizer | 56%
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| A type of agriculture that produces perishable items that farmers need to get to the market quickly. | Horticulture | 56%
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| Beginning in the 1700s, the advances of the Industrial Revolution were used to increase food supplies and support population growth. | Second Agricultural Revolution | 56%
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| When soil in an arid climate has been irrigated for use as farmland and the water evaporates, leaving salt residue behind that eventually causes the land to become infertile. | Soil Salinization | 56%
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| The revolution that began in the 1960s and included the Green Revolution. It was marked by an agribusiness model and involved better and more efficient farming equipment and practices. | Third Agricultural Revolution | 56%
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| A rural survey method where land is divided using latitude and longitude. Land is divided into large squares that can be subsequently divided into smaller squares. | Township & Range | 56%
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| The integration of various steps of production in the food-processing industry. | Agribusiness | 52%
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| A process used by corporations to gather resources and transform them into goods, then transport them to customers. | Commodity Chain | 52%
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| An effort to promote higher incomes for farmers, particularly in developing countries, and to protect workers’ rights. | Fair Trade Movement | 52%
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| A settlement pattern in which farms are clustered along a road with fields behind them. | Linear Settlement | 52%
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| Growing of fruits and vegetables, primarily for the purpose of freezing and canning. | Market Gardening | 52%
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| Agriculture practiced in regions with hot dry summers and mild winters, narrow valleys, and simple vegetation systems. | Mediterranean Farming | 52%
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| The movement of herds of animals to different pastures within a territory. | Pastoral Nomadism | 52%
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| Large commercial farming specializing in one crop. | Plantation Farming | 52%
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| Farming that involves moving crops from one field to another, clearing the land by burning the vegetation. | Shifting Cultivation | 52%
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| A rural survey method where land is divided based on the features of the physical landscape and distance and direction. | Metes & Bounds | 48%
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| The origin of farming, marked by the initial domestication of plants and animals. | Neolithic (First) Agricultural Revolution | 48%
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| The development of higher yielding, disease-resistant, faster-growing varieties of grains. | Green Revolution | 44%
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| The commercial grazing of animals confined to a specific area. | Ranching | 44%
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| The practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around towns or cities. | Urban Agriculture | 37%
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