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Chapter 10 Notes and Quiz

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A regions climate is determined by movement of air, the movement of water currents, latitude, and ______________.
Elevation
Describe hunting and gathering
This form of subsistence is still practice, hunter gatherers live in small groups, it is a form of nomadism, all humans obtained their food this way before the invention of agriculture
About how many hunters and gatherers are there today in the world?
250,000. Mostly found in sub-Saharan Africa , Asia, and some in Australia.
When did the first agricultural or neolithic revolution begin?
Around 8000 B.C.E. It started about 10,000 years ago.
What happened during the first agricultural revolution?
People moved from non-agriculturally based hunting and gathering societies to more agriculturally based ones through the gradual understanding of seeds, watering, and plant care.
The cultivation of plants by cutting stems and dividing roots is...
Vegetative planting
The first group to integrate seed agriculture with domestication of herd animals was probably in
Southwest Asia
The most important distinction for dividing the world into agricultural regions is...
Weather the product is consumed on or off the farm
Professor of geography at the University of California-Berkeley who started the field of cultural ecology and began the study of hearths of vegetative planting seed agriculture was...
Carl Sauer
Subsistence farming means
Growing only enough food for family or local use
What percentage of people in an undeveloped countrie work in farming?
50%
Is Mediterranean agriculture a form of subsistence agriculture?
No. Subsistence agriculture include Pastoral Nomadism, shifting cultivation, intensive subsistence.
Where would you be least likely to find subsistence Farms?
North America and Europe
Shifting cultivation is primarily practiced in climate region A, which is characterized by
High temperatures and abundant rainfall
Pastoral Nomadism is most commonly found in climate region B which is
Dry and arid
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