Traditional Agriculture Quiz

While the Netherlands is the smallest country of those given, and while Canada has the smallest amount of arable land, less than 10 percent of Egypt is arable.

Commercial agriculture uses advanced technology, and it produces more food and more income than subsistence agriculture. Both types of agriculture, however, are very important to the farmer as a means to provide for a family.

Hunting and gathering preceded agriculture. All other answers are forms of agriculture.

Under shifting cultivation, land is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years.

Shifting cultivation uses up the soil’s nutrients after a few years. The land is then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored. Families often return to the land after several years.

Shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism require frequent movement and thus take place over large areas.

The Paleolithic was the age of hunting and gathering. The Neolithic began with the invention of agriculture.

Agriculture is one of the hallmarks of civilization, and East Africa, South Asia, and Southwest Asia were some of the early centers of civilization. 

Barley originated in East Africa or South Asia.

Millet and sorghum both originated in Africa.

Rice probably came from Southeast Asia, though there is some evidence that it originated in East Asia or East Africa.

The technology for aqueducts and canals did not exist during the agricultural revolution, and buckets would not have been practical.

Terracing is a method use to farm on mountainsides. Turkey is mostly a plateau. All other states on the list are mountainous.

Semi-arid climates get just enough rain to grow grasses. The animals eat the grasses and are either slaughtered or used for milk.

Flying over the Great Plains, you will notice isolated farmsteads in rectangles. The farmers live apart from each other.

The long-lots are literally long, narrow plots of land lined up along a canal, river, or road.

New Englanders owned their land individually, though ownership was transferred upon agreement with the community. All other statements are truthful.

Dairy and horticulture come first because they spoil first and must be shipped quickly to the market.

The land will be less expensive because it is far from the market, but the further the distance, the greater the transportation costs.

Animals also need wide open space to graze. Those spaces are only available in the last ring because farmers are dispersed there.