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GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Geography
Matters!

Types and Locations of Agriculture



Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today:
Greiner pp. 324-343
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition): agriculture, hunting and gathering, first agricultural revolution, five hearths of agriculture (see map), second agricultural revolution, four-course system of crop rotation, third agricultural revolution, monoculture, green revolution, gene revolution, agro-biotech, genetically modified organisms, subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, shifting cultivation, pastoralism, transhumance, wet rice farming, intensive agriculture, smallholder agriculture, agribusiness, plantation agriculture, commercial gardening, meditteranean agriculture, factory farm, livestock ranching. clustered and dispersed rural settlements, shifting cultivation, swidden, pastoral nomadism, intensive subsistence agriculture, plantation, agriculture regions, green revolution, agribusiness, von Thunen Model
I have the following question(s) about the textbook reading:


Agriculture and Geography

What is Fair Trade Coffee?


Agricultural Origins and Revolutions
  • First Agricultural Revolution
    • Why and where did agriculture develop?
  • Second Agricultural Revolution
  • Third Agricultural Revolution
    • Green Revolution and Biotech Revolution

Types of Agriculture

  • Commercial vs. Subsistence Agriculture
  • Extensive vs. Intensive Agriculture
  • Shifting Cultivation
  • Intensive subsistence Agriculture
  • Pastoralism
    • Transhumance
  • Location of Agriculture

    • Subsistence Agriculture Regions

    • Commercial Agriculture regions

    • Von Thünen’s Model of Agricultural Location

     

     

     

     

     

     


    After Lecture

    What was the main point of today's lecture?

     

    Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short definition):

    One thing I did not fully understand today is:

     

    What did I learn today that I did not know before?

     

     

     

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