Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT

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What are isolated farmsteads?
What was a major factor that impeded the the growth of North American suburbs?
Which of the following world regions has the Green Revolution had the least impact on agriculture?
Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

THE GRAND REVIEW

THIRD EDITION

Unit I: Geography: Its Nature and Perspective

Identify each type of map:

1.2.

3.4.

Match the following:

5.use of natural resources to ensure their availability in the

future

6.a computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves,

analyzes, and displays geographic data

7.a space-based global navigation satellite system

8.the physical environment, rather than social conditions,

determines culture

9.the small- or large-scale acquisition of information of an

object or phenomenon, either in recording or real time

10.environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but

culture is otherwise determined by social conditions

a.environmental determinism

b.GIS

c.GPS

d.possibilism

e.remote sensing

f.sustainability

Choose the one that does not belong:

11.a. township and range

b.clustered rural settlement

c.grid street pattern

12.a.site

b.situation

c.relative location

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Regionalization is to geography as _____	D; periodization is to history
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What are isolated farmsteads?

Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT. Physical boundaries preventing communal farm practices. Shifting cultivation is still practiced in many parts of. South America. The Green Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s involved.

What was a major factor that impeded the the growth of North American suburbs?

The poor condition of the housing.

Which of the following world regions has the Green Revolution had the least impact on agriculture?

C. The Green Revolution was not successful in China because the strain of rice produced was prone to widespread crop failures, and China dropped out of the program.

Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

What are the characteristics of shifting cultivation? Land is cleared by slashing and burning vegatation. Crops are grown in the land for only a few years until the soil is delpleted of nutrients. The land is then left fallow for many years to regain nutrients.

Isolated farmsteads in the United States evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEPT

What are isolated farmsteads?

What was a major factor that impeded the the growth of North American suburbs?

Which of the following world regions has the Green Revolution had the least impact on agriculture?

Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

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