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Agricultural Origins & Diffusions (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

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11 mark

Who was likely to be the first to domesticate animals? 

  • Indigenous people in Australia

  • South American explorers

  • Christopher Columbus and other European explorers

  • Hunters in central Asia

  • Southwest Asian agriculturalists

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21 mark

 Which of the following is not considered one of the main agricultural hearths?

  • Ethiopia

  • Northern Peru

  • Northern China

  • Southern Mexico

  • North-west Asia

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31 mark

When plants and animals were initially domesticated, this was known as:

  • The Green Revolution

  • The Second Agricultural Revolution

  • The Fertile Cresent

  • The Industrial Revolution

  • The Neolithic Revolution

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41 mark

The Columbian Exchange refers to the voyages taken by 

  • McCormick Reaper

  • Christopher Columbus

  • Marco Polo

  • Walter Raleigh

  • Francis Drake

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51 mark

A network of trade routes connecting China to the Western Roman Empire is known as

  • The Silk Road

  • The Columbian Exchange

  • The Fertile Crescent 

  • The Trans-Saharan Trade Route

  • The Spice Route

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61 mark

The origin of crops or agricultural practices is called

  • Ranches

  • Swiddens

  • Hearths

  • Monocultures

  • Shifting cultivation

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71 mark

Some crops and animals were domesticated separately across many regions, without connections between people. This is known as 

  • Interdependence

  • Independent innovation

  • Diffusion

  • Domestication

  • The Neolithic Revolution

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81 mark

A machine which helped farmers to increase their yield was named

  • Cotton gin

  • Steam engine

  • McCormick Reaper

  • Seed Drill

  • Plow

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91 mark

Which of the following was not a result of the Second Agricultural Revolution?

  • Food surplus

  • Improved productivity 

  • Better agricultural technology

  • Urbanization

  • More people working in agriculture

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101 mark

Crop rotation is

  • The sequence planting of different crops on a plot of land to let the soil rejuvenate 

  • Purposeful planting of crops to improve production 

  • Growing crops on the side of a hill in a step format

  • The use of a machine to plant seeds at an equal depth

  • The separation of cotton fiber from the seed

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111 mark

How did the Second Agricultural Revolution lead to urbanization?

  • Agricultural productivity increased, so more people remained as farmers in rural areas

  • Increased technology in agriculture required more workers to use the technology.

  • Population growth from food surplus and increased agricultural technology, meant more people could work in factories.

  • People lived longer so urban populations remained high.

  • Urbanization did not occur until much later

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121 mark

How did the Enclosure Movement change agriculture?

  • Increased the size of farms and boosted production efficiency, moving to commercialised agriculture.

  • Reduced farm size, encouraging subsistence farming. 

  • Increased use of chemicals, mechanization and high-yield varieties. 

  • It indicated the places where the agricultural revolution began and spread outwards.

  • Allowed the spread of plants and animals around the world.

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131 mark

Which other revolution did the Second Agricultural Revolution coincide with?

  • The Green Revolution

  • The Industrial Revolution 

  • Early diffusion from hearths

  • The American Revolution

  • Scientific-technical Revolution

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141 mark

At what time did the Green Revolution occur?

  • 1960s and 1970s

  • 1950s

  • 1980s and 1990s

  • 2000s

  • Before the 20th century

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151 mark

The practice of growing two types of crops on one plot of land is known as

  • Hybridization

  • Irrigation

  • Soil salinization

  • Double cropping

  • Crop rotation

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161 mark

Which of the following was a negative impact of the Green Revolution?

  • Lower death rates

  • Lower food prices

  • Increased soil salinization

  • Less dependency on food imports

  • Higher crop variety 

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171 mark

How was irrigation beneficial during the Green Revolution?

  • Irrigation allowed crops to be grown in places that were much drier, increasing crop yields. 

  • The adaptation of genetics allowed crops to produce higher yields and become resistant to pests and diseases.

  • Improved outputs through mechanized agricultural technologies, improving efficiency and productivity.

  • Irrigation was one of the root causes of agricultural diffusion, allowing agriculture to spread out from global hearths.

  • It was vital to ensure fires didn’t spread during slash-and-burn

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