1. Chapter 10: Key Issue 1
Where Did Agriculture Originate?
1. Please refer to the map on page 336-337 of your textbook that deals with the world’s agricultural regions.
Please copy the map key and then color the map below accordingly.
Little or no agriculture Commercial Agriculture
Subsistence Agriculture More Developed Countries
Less Developed Countries Mixed crop and livestock
Shifting cultivation
Dairy
Intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant
Grain
Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant
Livestock ranching
Pastoral nomadism Mediterranean
Commercial gardening
Less Developed Countries
Plantation
2. Describe how early humans obtained food. List examples of contemporary people who continue this practice.
3. Explain and make notes about the two earliest forms of agriculture that cultural geographer Carl Sauer
identified.
vegetative agriculture seed agriculture
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2. 4. The biggest difference between agriculture in MDCs and LDCs is the type of farming that is practiced. In
More Developed Countries, most of the farming is commercial agriculture, while in Less Developed Countries
most of the farming is subsistence agriculture. Complete the chart below summarizing the main differences
between the two.
subsistence agriculture (in LDCs) commercial agriculture (in MDCs)
purpose of farming
percentage of
farmers in the
labor force
use of machinery
farm size
relationship of
farming to other
businesses
5. What did Derwent Whittlesey create in 1936 that is still used extensively toady?
6. Summarize the conclusions that Whittlesey came to in his studies about climate and agriculture.
7. Refer to the climate zone and agricultural maps (p.336-337) and identify any anomalies in the relationship
between climate and type of agricultural practices, or in the type of agriculture and the designation of
countries in the MDC or LDC classification, eg: plantation farming (characteristic of LDCs) in Australia (a
MDC).
Fold the page at the dotted line and then glue this part of the page
into your notebook.