| GEO1OO - Earth, The Human Home | Dr. Rodrick A. Hay |
| Test Review #3 | Fall 2004 |
The following is an outline of topics covered in class. All material covered in class, whether presented here
or not, is fair game for the test. Textbook material from Chapter #8 Agriculture and Food Production, and
Chapter #9 The Politics of Territory and Space will be used on the test.
Review all bolded words in the Chapters
Chapter #8 - Agriculture and Food Production
Agriculture historically human's number one activity
Types of Agriculture, know major crops, location and whether they are subsistence (sub) or commercial
(com)
Shifting agriculture - inter-tillage, subsistence, cycle 4-5yrs use, 10-20yrs fallow, more calories provides
than expended when compared to hightech.
Rice paddy farming - rice, sub and com, high output
Peasant grain, root and livestock farming - colder areas unsuitable for farming, sub.
Mediterranean agriculture - winter wheat and barley, historically sub, vine and tree (grape
and olive), sheep and goats
Nomadic herding - desert steppe and savannas, sub,
Plantation ag - tropics/subtropics, Indonesia, commercial, mechanization/labor problems
Market gardening (truck farms) - com, developed countries, fruits and vegetables, quick transport to market
Commercial livestock fattennig - feedlots, com, NOT efficient.
Commercial grain farming - com, wheat, large scale single crop, AGRIbusiness, suitcase farms
Commercial Dairying - com, close to market-fluid products (milk), far from market-cheese, butter.
Livestock ranching - individual vs. nomadic tribe, com, Argentina, western US
Plant domestication
vegetative reproduction, seed, nature
bigger is better (beefalo and corn on the cob)
Carl Sauer - placed early domestication in SE Asia, Current "burned rice" theory places "rice" origin in
China
Von Thunen - Estate landlord designing the Isolated State Model
Chapter #9 - The Politics of Territory and Space
Political Geography - study of borders, includes balance of power, jurisdictions and spatial structures based
on physical and cultural variables
State - (political structure) self governed group occupying a defined territory, States
characteristics or aspects - has borders, has a central government, collects taxes, enforces laws, regulates
production
Nation - (people) group united by a common culture
Nation State - culture region organized to function politically
Characteristics that effect Unity
Size - too large, too small (not enough resources)
Shapes - elongated (Chile), compact (Hungary), perforated (South Africa), fragmented (Japan)
Cultural regions - voting behavior, follows natural cleavages, gerrymandering tries
Borders - natural (physical), ethnic and geometric
Political Landscapes
Physical representation of borders - Great Wall, clear cutting forest (Sweden and Norway)
Physical representation of 'states' - Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Eiffel Tower
Folk fortress - natural physical boundaries providing natural defenses
Heartland Theory - Halford MacKinder, Eurasia heartland would take over rimland and
dominate the world