Places & Regions in Global Context – Chapter 2 (pp. 55-57), Chapter 8

Guns, Germs, and Steel – Prologue, Ch 1-10

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Note: Terms in Bold Type are not found in our text and will be covered in class.

Agriculture

Hunting & Gathering

First Agricultural Revolution

Second Agricultural Revolution

Subsistence Agriculture

Vegetative Planting

Seed Agriculture

Commercial Agriculture

Shifting Cultivation

2-Field/3-Field Systems

Open-Field System

Crop Rotation

Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

Swidden

Intertillage

Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

Double Cropping

The Boserup Thesis

Tenant Farmer

Pastoralism (Pastoral Nomadism)

Transhumance

Green Revolution (Third Agricultural Revolution)

        Mechanization of Agriculture

        Chemical Farming

        Food Manufacturing

        Biotechnology

Agricultural Industrialization

Agribusiness

Food Chain (Commodity Chain)

Food Regime

Farm Crisis

Plantation

Von Thünen Model

Truck Farming

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Take a trip to your local Giant or Food Lion or Shopper’s or (for you upscale types) Ukrop’s and see if you can determine the country or state of origin of at least 10 fruits and vegetables that you and your family would commonly purchase (you can even start by checking out what you have in your refrigerator). You might have to talk to someone like the produce manager. WARNING: Be aware of those automatic, timed sprayers that seem to get Mr. L every time.

Bring the results in to class and, sometime before February 26, visit the PowerPoint on the shared drive entitled "Globalization of Agriculture." Add a symbol to the world or US map for each of your ten food items, and then add a PowerPoint slide to the end of the presentation that contains your name, your ten food items, and their countries/states of origin.

You will have a country quiz on Europe (Tuesday, February 5).

On Wednesday, February 20 you will have a matching quiz on the textbook terms found in the list above (i.e. the non-bold terms).