Unit 5 check
Unit 5 check: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
12 questions from 12 lessons in Unit 5. Answer each one, and if you miss, follow the link back to where it is taught, then try again. Your score counts first tries.
Question 1 · from 5.1 · Decide and justify
A hypothetical company wants to plant cacao trees, which need warmth and rain in every month and are killed by frost. It can buy land in Region 1, which has hot, dry summers, mild, rainy winters and a light frost in some winters, or in Region 2, which is hot with heavy rain in every month and never has frost. Where should it plant?
Which reason supports your answer?
Question 2 · from 5.2 · Sort it
Each card describes the homes in a hypothetical farming area. Tap a card, then the settlement pattern it shows.
Clustered
Dispersed
Linear
Question 3 · from 5.3 · Multiple choice
A historian reads the records of a hypothetical farm in the Americas. Which item in the records shows that they were written after the Columbian Exchange began?
Question 4 · from 5.4 · Sort it
Each card describes a scene a historian might find in a painting or record of a hypothetical farming village. Tap a card, then the period it belongs to.
Before the second agricultural revolution
After the second agricultural revolution
Setup for question 5
Hypothetical Country W's government plans to bring high yielding seeds, fertilizer and farm machines to its farming provinces, and its advisers are asked what to expect.
Question 5 · from 5.5 · Put it in order
In one province of hypothetical Country W, the largest farms adopt the Green Revolution package, and many landless workers there live on seasonal farm wages. Put these changes in order, first to last.
Setup for question 6
Hypothetical Country T has several farming regions, from lowland grain plains to remote highland valleys.
Question 6 · from 5.6 · Multiple choice
The farm families of Country T's remote Region H grow a mix of grains, beans and vegetables and eat most of what they grow. A new paved road now links Region H to a port city with a large market for farm goods. Over the next twenty years, which change in Region H is most likely?
Setup for question 7
A farm agency in a hypothetical country compares two of its counties. Neither county gained or lost farmland in 40 years.
| County North | County South | |
|---|---|---|
| Land | Flat plain, large open fields | Steep hills, small fields between woods |
| Main products | Corn and soybeans | Apples and pasture for dairy cows |
| Farmland, both years | 160,000 hectares | 90,000 hectares |
| Farms, 40 years ago | 1,600 | 1,500 |
| Farms, today | 400 | 1,100 |
Question 7 · from 5.7 · Multiple choice
Which statement best explains why the number of farms fell much faster in County North than in County South?
Setup for question 8
A planning office in hypothetical Country N mapped the main land use around City H, the country's only large market. Most of the region is flat, with similar soils.
| Zone | Distance from City H | Main land use |
|---|---|---|
| A | 0 to 15 km | Vegetables, soft fruit and dairy |
| B | 15 to 35 km | Woodland for timber and fuel |
| C | 35 to 90 km | Wheat and barley |
| D | 90 to 200 km | Cattle and sheep grazing |
| E | 170 km, a frost-free valley in the hills | Orchards of a pear that ripens only in frost-free valleys, sent to City H by refrigerated rail |
In Zone C, wheat sells in City H for $160 a tonne, costs $80 a tonne to grow, and costs $0.80 a tonne for each kilometer to carry to the city. A hectare yields 3 tonnes.
Question 8 · from 5.8 · Calculate
Using the Zone C wheat figures, at what distance from City H would a hectare of wheat stop earning any profit at all?
Setup for question 9
In Year 1, no paved road linked hypothetical Country D's highland farms to its capital's airport, and the airport had no refrigerated storage. Between Year 1 and Year 10, D paved a highway from the highlands to the airport and built refrigerated warehouses there. It also signed a trade agreement with hypothetical Country E that ended E's tariff on D's cut flowers. By Year 10, most of D's flowers are flown to E.
| Export | Year 1 | Year 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee | 360 | 450 |
| Cut flowers | 0 | 300 |
| Avocados | 10 | 150 |
| All other exports | 30 | 100 |
| Total | 400 | 1,000 |
Question 9 · from 5.9 · Multiple choice
In Year 11, Country E puts its tariff on cut flowers back in place. Nothing else changes. Which outcome is most likely?
Question 10 · from 5.10 · Sort it
Each card describes a societal effect of farming in a hypothetical place. Tap a card, then the kind of effect it shows.
Changing diets
Role of women in agricultural production
Economic purpose
Question 11 · from 5.11 · Select all
Members of a food co-op in a hypothetical town describe four changes in how they shop and eat. Which two are examples of the local-food movement? Select two.
Select 2 answers, then check.
Question 12 · from 5.12 · Sort it
Each card is a food task in a hypothetical place. Sort each one into the stage of the food system it belongs to. Tap a card, then its stage.
Food production
Food distribution
Food consumption
0 of 12 answered.