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Agricultural Production Regions (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

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11 mark
Diagram illustrating agricultural land use zones around a market, showing vegetables and dairying, mixed farming, grains, and ranching based on distance.

According to the Bid Rent Theory, what kind of agriculture might you find closer to the city?

  • Extensive

  • Alternative

  • Organic

  • Intensive

  • Nomadic

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21 mark

Planting one crop in one field at one time is known as

  • Monocropping

  • Monoculture

  • Crop rotation

  • Intercropping

  • Slash and burn

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31 mark

Where is subsistence farming not likely to be found? 

  • Tropical regions

  • Europe

  • Arid regions

  • Equatorial regions

  • Less developed regions

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41 mark

Where is ranching commonly found?

  • Midwestern US

  • New Zealand

  • Latin America

  • California

  • Argentinian Pampas

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51 mark

Which of the following is an example of plantation agriculture?

  • Cocoa

  • Citrus

  • Milk products

  • Flowers

  • Wheat

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61 mark

Economies of scale refers to

  • The system of commercial agriculture linking industries like transportation or distribution

  • How liable products are to decay

  • The distribution of agricultural practices across the earth’s surface

  • The decrease in costs of production, caused by the increase in the production of an item 

  • The maximum amount of people an area of land can support

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71 mark

Which of the following is a characteristic of subsistence agriculture?

  • Using high-tech machinery

  • Large farm size

  • Capital-intensive

  • Using high-yield varieties

  • Labor intensive

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81 mark

The improvement of technology in the agricultural sector has vastly increased the land’s carrying capacity. This means that 

  • The environment can support increasing populations sustainably without degrading the land

  • The land is degrading at a faster pace, endangering future food security.

  • Income rises as production increases.

  • The networks that connect production and consumption are vastly improved.

  • Technology causes less damage to the land than manual labor.

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91 mark

The model describing the pattern of agricultural land use was created by

  • Ernest Burgess

  • Johann Heinrich von Thünen

  • Homer Hoyt

  • Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman

  • Harm de Blij

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101 mark

Von Thünen’s Model is less accurate today. Which of the following is not a reason for the reduced relevance?

  • Transport is more efficient

  • Refrigeration technology has improved

  • Firewood is not a vital fuel source

  • Speciality farming exists

  • Dairy farming is less common

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111 mark

According to the Von Thunen Model, why is ‘Forest’ located closer to the city?

  • Wood was a vital fuel source.

  • Wood was incredibly heavy

  • Wood was easy to transport.

  • Wood needed to reach the market quickly due to perishability.

  • Wood was located in the wilderness.

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121 mark

The fourth ring in the Von Thunen Model is

  • Forests

  • Grains and other crops

  • Ranching and Livestock

  • Dairy farming

  • City/urban center

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131 mark

Which of the following is not a type of transport infrastructure?

  • Trucking

  • Shipping

  • Roads

  • Tariffs

  • Air freight

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141 mark

Export-oriented agriculture is

  • When the production of goods is focused on the sale in the global market

  • The reliance on exported goods for the economy

  • The systems facilitating the movement of agricultural products

  • The taxes placed on imported and exported goods

  • The way crops and animals were domesticated separately across many regions, without connections between people

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151 mark

Taxes on imported goods are known as

  • Tariffs

  • Trade

  • Safety standards

  • Exports

  • Air freight

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161 mark

Which of the following is not an example of a luxury crop?

  • Coffee

  • Cocoa

  • Rice

  • Tobacco

  • Tea

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171 mark

The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy is an example of what? 

  • A Fair Trade Agreement

  • A Farm Bill

  • Agroecology

  • Free Trade Agreement

  • Agribusiness

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