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Agronomy Chapter 10 Practice Test
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________ model is used by geographers to explain the importance of proximity to the
market in the choice of crops to the commercial farm
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von Thünen
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B) It causes soil erosion and depletion of nutrients
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D) It consumes a lot of land to feed a small number of people
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It upsets the
ecology through the use of fertilizers
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farms in an MDC
(like the
United States) that grow the same crop is
A) the amount of crop produced in a year
B) the importance of the crop to the farmer
C) the income derived from crops
D) A and B
E) A and C - ANSE) A and C
A major practice of sustainable agriculture is
A) agribusiness
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C) the lack of integration of crops and livestock
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E) limited use of chemicals - ANSE
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B) a "green revolution" in the use of chemicals
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D) the use of pesticide-resistant seed
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careful management

According to the von Thünen model, timber production was located in the second ring
from the
city because of what factor?
A) labor intense harvesting methods
B) product weight
C) need for a vast area
D) perishability
E) delivery time - ANSB) Product weight
Afghanistan is important to the world drug trade primarily because
A) it produces about 90 percent of the world's opium
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S
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C) of the inability to grow maize
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E) of the desire of local farmers to fund terrorist organizations
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it produces
about 90 percent of the world's opum
After maize, the most important crop in the U
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mixed crop and livestock region is
A) wheat
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C) barley
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E) sugar beets
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soybeans
An important agricultural hearth is
A) South America
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C) Southeast Asia
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E) all of the above - ANSE) All of the above
Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following?
A) equipment
B) funds and land
C) labor
D) land
E) funds - ANSC
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greater use of animal power
Defenders of shifting cultivation say it is the best approach for the tropics because
A) shifting cultivation is part of the cultural diversity of folk customs in the tropics
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C) shifting cultivation destroys less tropical rain forest than permanently clearing the
land
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E) A, B, and C - ANSE) A, B, and C
Farmers in LDCs choose to grow drug crops for export primarily because of
A) their market value in MDCs
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C) their inability to grow maize
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E) their desire to fund terrorist organizations
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their market value in MDCs
Farmers in more developed and less developed countries share which of the following
problems?
A) access to fertilizers
B) inadequate income
C) lack of equipment
D) surplus production
E) the declining importance of world markets - ANSB
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A) cultural and environmental factors
B) cultural and economic factors
C) farmers' personal preference and environmental factors
D) weather and climate
E) climate change - ANSA
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B) soil quality
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D) habitat for endangered species
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B) greater resistance to climate change
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D) all of the above
E) A and C - ANSE) A and C
Geographer Derwent Whittlesey divided the world into ________ agricultural regions
(not including his area of nonexistent agriculture)
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Geographer Derwent Whittlesey divided the world into agricultural regions (not including
his area of nonexistent agriculture), ________ of which were classified as found in
MDCs and ________ as found in LDCs
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6; 5
Hunting and gathering societies
A) include about 15 percent of the world's people
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C) are characterized by large concentrations of people
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E) are responsible for most of the environmental degradation of the planet
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are
found in isolated places in the world
In Maryland, soil preservationists produced a new composite map by combining in their
GIS
A) soil quality, environmental, and economic maps
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C) dry harvest climate, wet harvest climate, climate change, and soil maps
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E) soil quality, environmental, and political maps
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soil quality, environmental,
and economic maps
In the Eastern Hemisphere, seed agriculture probably originated in which of the
following?
A) Ethiopia
B) western India
C) northern China
D) Southwest Asia
E) A, B, and C - ANSE) A, B, and C
In the United States many farms are integrated into a large food production industry
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B) commercial farming
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D) mechanized farming
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- ANSA
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S
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B) winter and harvested in spring
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D) spring and harvested in summer
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- ANSA
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B) most of Southeast Asia
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D) A and B
E) all of the above
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B) bartering with urban residents
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D) feeding the rapidly growing population
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- ANSC) Selling crops
Lima beans were domesticated in
A) Southeast Asia
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C) Ethiopia
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E) the Americas
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the Americas
Mixing crops and livestock allows farmers to
A) generate 3/4ths of their income from the sale of livestock
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C) distribute the workload of the crops and livestock evenly throughout the year
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E) none of the above
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B) generate 90 percent of their income from the sale of livestock
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D) create a system where crops provide food for livestock and the livestock provide
manure for crop fertilization
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- ANSD
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B) 20 percent of the earth's land area
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D) most of the tropical regions of the earth
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- ANSB) 20 percent of the earth's land area
Pastoral nomadism is most commonly found in which climate region?
A) humid low-latitude
B) dry
C) warm mid-latitude
D) cold mid-latitude
E) polar - ANSB
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B) They obtain grain through trade
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D) All of the above distinguish pastoral nomadism
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Pigs were domesticated in
A) Southeast Asia
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C) Ethiopia
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E) Southwest Asia - ANSE
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B) Southwest Asia
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D) northern China
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- ANSE
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pastoral nomadism
Seed agriculture probably reached Europe from
A) western India
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C) Ethiopia
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E) Southeast Asia
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Southwest Asia
Shifting cultivation is most commonly found in which climate region?
A) humid low-latitude
B) dry
C) warm mid-latitude
D) cold mid-latitude
E) highlands - ANSA
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B) low temperatures and low rainfall
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D) high temperatures and moderate rainfall
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- ANSC) high temperatures and abundant
rainfall
The ________ and ________ of hunter and gatherer migration depended on the
movement of
game and the seasonal growth of plant
A) speed and frequency
B) speed and distance
C) time and speed
D) direction and frequency
E) direction and distance - ANSD) direction and frequency
The best way to block Asian carp from moving into the Great Lakes from the Illinois
River would be the closing of locks and dams in and near Chicago; however, these
waterways are not being closed because
A) Republicans in the U
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Congress are concerned about taxes on the rich
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Louis
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D) as major transportation links for the region, they are important for Chicago's
economy
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ANSD
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B) seed agriculture
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D) vegetative planting
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- ANSD) vegetative planting
The decline in the amount of farmland can best be described as a consequence of
A) urban sprawl
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C) push/pull economic factors
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- ANSA) Urban sprawl
The decline in the number of farmers in MDCs can best be described as a consequence
of
A) push/pull economic factors, including the lack of opportunity in rural areas and
higher-paying jobs in urban areas
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C) push/pull economic factors, including greater opportunities in rural areas and lowerpaying jobs in urban areas
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E) the spread of disease and starvation in rural areas, which quickly reduced the
populations of farmers
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push/pull economic factors, including the lack of
opportunity in rural areas and higher-paying jobs in urban areas
The different areas of the world where Mediterranean agriculture predominates have
similar
A) climate
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C) broad expanses of flat land along sea coasts
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E) levels of livestock production with the mixed crop and livestock regions
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climate
The direction and frequency of hunter-gatherer migration depended on
A) the movement of game and the seasonal growth of plants
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C) the arrival of imperial armies and other invading forces
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E) mathematical processes
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the movement of game ad the seasonal growth of
plants
The earliest known domesticated squash crops are thought to have originated in the
Americas more than
A) 9,000 years ago
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C) 1
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D) 900 years ago
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- ANSA
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B) 100,000 years ago
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1 million years ago
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E) 10 million years ago
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10,000 years ago

The first group to integrate seed agriculture with domestication of herd animals was
probably in
A) western India
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C) Ethiopia
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- ANSD
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B) northern China
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D) Southwest Asia
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- ANSD
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B) plantation agriculture
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D) shifting cultivation
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- ANSA) Intensive subsistence
The most important reason why most farmers in northeast China grow crops other than
wet rice is
A) cultural preference
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C) climate
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E) harvesting wet rice requires expensive machinery
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climate
The number of farms in the United States declined from about 6 million in 1940 to
________ in 1980
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5 million
C) 10 million
D) 1 million
E) 20,000 - ANSA
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S
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B) dairy farming
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D) commercial gardening
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- ANSD
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B) market location
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D) soil character
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- ANSB
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B) transnomadism
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D) practiced mostly in the tropics
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- ANSC
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B) truck agriculture
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D) truck farming
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- ANSD
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A) 85
B) 52
C) 15
D) 25
E) 99 - ANSA
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B) transhumance
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D) pastoral nomadism
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- ANSA
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B) "mobility" or "movement
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" D) "bartering" or "exchange of
commodities
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" - ANSD
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Unique agricultural practices arise in particular regions because of
A) physical characteristics of the land
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C) limited knowledge of alternatives
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E) all of the above - ANSE) All of the above
Unlike other forms of commercial agriculture, plantations are
A) part of agribusiness
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C) found primarily in less developed countries
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E) found primarily in more developed countries
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found primarily in less
developed countries
Vegetative planting probably originated in
A) northern China
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C) Ethiopia
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E) all of the above - ANSD) Southeast Asia
Von Thünen's model can best be used to explain the location of which of the following
types of agriculture?
A) dairying in the Northeast United States
B) ranching in the dry lands of North Africa
C) shifting cultivation in the tropics of South America
D) intensive subsistence in South China
E) mediterranean agriculture in central Chile - ANSA
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maintaining the fertility of fields
Which is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
A) Land is cleared by tractors or large work crews
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C) A new site is designated every 50 years
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E) A new site is designated every few years
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A new site is designed every few
years
Which is not a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
A) A new site is designated every few years
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C) Debris is burned to provide the soil with nutrients
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E) All of the above are characteristics
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- ANSA
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transportation improvements, scientific advances, and electronics
Which of the following is a typical practice in growing rice in Asia?
A) preparing fields with a plow drawn by oxen
B) flooding the plowed field with water
C) growing seedlings in a nursery
D) transplanting seedlings into the flooded field
E) All of these answers are correct
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All of these answers are correct
Which of the following is least likely to be produced in Mediterranean agriculture?

A) butter
B) fruits
C) grapes
D) olives
E) cereals - ANSA
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increasing tariffs on grain exports
Which of the following is the most common form of commercial agriculture in Europe?
A) mixed crop and livestock farming
B) dairy farming
C) grain farming
D) livestock ranching
E) Mediterranean agriculture - ANSA
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B) It is a form of nomadism that disappeared in the late 1900s after the fall of the Soviet
Union
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D) Hunter gatherers cannot live for long in groups of less than 100 people owing to the
necessary division of labor
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- ANSE
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B) This form of subsistence is still practiced
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D) Hunter gatherers live in small groups
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plantation
Which type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?
A) hunting and gathering
B) shifting cultivation
C) pastoral nomadism
D) intensive subsistence
E) plantation - ANSD

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