Mayra

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Directions: Using the Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture reading, fill out the following chart. All explanations should be done in your
own words, no copy and paste.

FOOD & AGRICULTURE

10.1: Where did agriculture Agriculture originated in multiple hearths and
originate? di used in many directions.
Include the following term in
your explanation: (hearth )

10.1: Explain how the

agricultural revolution After the last Ice age, the ice cover receded from
originated from both: earths polar regions, resulting in a redistribution of
humans, animals, and plants.
- Environmental Factors

Soil improvements and manure were learned that they help plants
- Cultural Factors grow so they would sometimes purposely drop fruits and see what
would happen this evolved from an accident idea to a deliberate idea.

10.2: Define (may need to use

google):

- Developing countries A poor agricultural country that is seeking to become more advanced economically and
- socially.
- Developed countries A developed country, or high-income country, is a sovereign state that has a high
quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological

10.2: Describe the following :

- Subsistence farming The production of food primarily for the consumption by the
farmers family.

The production of food primarily for sale o the farm.

- Commercial farming

10.2: What 3 features

distinguish subsistence farming The percentage of farmers in the labor force, the use of machinery, and the farm size.
and commercial farming?

10.3: How do humans derive

(means get) most of their food?
Humans derive most of their food energy from cereals.

And explain what the food is

10.3: Describe the following
grain and where it is
It is the principal cereal grain, consumed in the developed in
consumed:
Europe and North America and is the most consumed in
developing countries like east, south and southwest Asia.
- WHEAT

10.3: Describe the following

The principal cereal grain is most consumed in developing
grain and where it is regions of east, south and Southeast Asia. Rice is more
consumed: sustainable in tropical climates.

- RICE

10.3: Describe the following

grain and where it is The leading crop of the world is grown for other than direct
human consumption such as animal feed and crop leading.
consumed:

- MAIZE

10.4: Describe the term “food Food security is as physical, social, and economic access
security” at all times to safe and nutritious food su cient to meet
dietary needs and food preferences for an active and
healthy life.

How many people do not have One-eighth of the worlds inhabitants do not have food
“food security”: security.

10.4: Describe the term

Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the
“undernourishment” minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and
carrying out light physical activity.

About 842 million of people in the world are

How many people are undernourished.
“undernourished” ?

10.4: Summarize, Africa’s

food supply problem?
Because of the population growth and the small land
available to support animals they have barely room for the
food planting and they have low water sources having them
to reduce the prices of small portion foods.

10.5:
Pastoral nomadism, shifting cultivation, intensive
Describe the FIVE agricultural subsistence wet rice not dominant, and plantation.
regions that predominate
(means- are strongest) in
developing countries
10.5:

Describe the SIX agricultural

regions that predominate
(means- are strongest) in
developed countries:

Mixed crop and livestock, dairy, grain, livestock ranching

Mediterranean, and commercial gardening.

Notes: