Agribusiness - AP Human Geography (2024)

a diversification of agricultural crops

a reduced need for farm laborers

a division of arable land among more individual farmers

a lack of reliance on cash crops

an increased reliance on immigrant labor

Correct answer:

a reduced need for farm laborers

Explanation:

Since the late nineteenth century, agricultural production has come to rely increasingly on mechanized means of production and farm equipment. This has greatly shifted the way crops are grown, with more cash crops grown in large monoculture plots by large corporations. Most significantly, all of these changes mean that fewer and fewer farm laborers are needed to grow the same amount of crops.

An economic consultant who makes suggestions to companies as to which agricultural products to buy (coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market trends

A public land grant college that develops a variety of rice that does not require flood irrigation and can be grown in semi-arid countries whose farmers are challenged by frequent drought

A subsistence farmer in Ecuador that sells some crop surplus to the market, but farms to support a family wholives on less than two dollars a day

An American-based facility that purchases government-subsidized corn and manufactures food additives and high fructose corn syrup

A date farmer in Jordan that sells his surplus crop to a local sugar refinery

Correct answer:

An economic consultant who makes suggestions to companies as to which agricultural products to buy (coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market trends

Explanation:

Quaternary economic activity refers mostly to information on market trends and the trade of goods. An economic consultant who recommends purchases for large companies best fits this definition.

Subsistence farmers in China selling rice and vegetables grown on their respective plots of land in a free market

A stockbroker investingin a company'sdevelopment and marketing of a pest-resistant soybean

Researchers at a public land grant college developing hybridized corn that will increase yields and grow in colder climates

A supermarket chain buying produce from large food producersand repackaging the product with recognizable brands tosell them to local consumers

An entrepreneur who buys apples from local farmers and produces apple juice for resale

Correct answer:

Researchers at a public land grant college developing hybridized corn that will increase yields and grow in colder climates

Explanation:

Quinary economic activity is defined as research and higher education. Developing seeds at a public land grant college best fits this definition, because research is being applied to increase economic activity in another sector.

An economist who informs subsistence farmers in underdeveloped countries of market patterns and which crops will be most profitable at a given time

A factory that buys fruit from local growers and manufactures juice, canned goods, and vitamin supplements

A Florida orange grower who sells his oranges to a local food processing plant every season

A private biotech research company that is genetically engineering a variety of oranges that can be grown in temperate climates

A company that finds buyers for fair trade coffee and facilitates the purchase from Guatemalan coffee farmers for a percent commission

Correct answer:

A company that finds buyers for fair trade coffee and facilitates the purchase from Guatemalan coffee farmers for a percent commission

Explanation:

Tertiary economic activity is the act of serving as an intermediary between producers and consumers to facilitate trade. Finding buyers for fair trade coffee and initiating the trade between them and consumers for a cut of the profit best fits this definition.

A freelance marketer who connects logging companies with manufacturers interested in purchasing raw timber to produce lumber and a wide range of paper products

A stockbroker who is currently investing in lumber products in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Asia

A land grant research college in Georgia that has developed an experimental tree farm in an attempt to study sustainable timber harvesting

A lumber mill in Port Angeles, WA that manufactures lumber, wood chips and various timber products from locally fallen trees

A logger in the Pacific Northwest who risks his or herlife falling trees for $25,000 a year before taxes

Correct answer:

A logger in the Pacific Northwest who risks his or herlife falling trees for $25,000 a year before taxes

Explanation:

Primary economic activity is defined as the act of directly harvesting natural resources. Logging tree stands for a living would be the best example of all provided choices.

Tea

These are all examples of luxury crops

Tobacco

Cotton

Coffee

Correct answer:

These are all examples of luxury crops

Explanation:

A “luxury crop” is a crop that is grown to serve some purpose other than sustaining human life. All of these crops are consumed for reasons other than nutrition and so are called “luxury crops.”

poppy farming

horticulture

aquaculture

black market agriculture

narco-agriculture

Correct answer:

narco-agriculture

Explanation:

The cultivation of drugs, like marijuana and opiates, for the purpose of sale on the black market is referred to as “narco-agriculture.” "Aquaculture" refers to the farming and cultivation of fish, crustaceans, and other sea life in controlled, designated environments. "Black market agriculture" refers to the sale of conventional agricultural products (like corn or wheat) for sale in non-sanctioned marketplaces, usually to avoid price-controls, taxes, or tariffs. Although the farming of poppies has been associated with the production of opiate drugs, this is too specific a term to be correct in this instance (the growing of marijuana or coca plants also fall under the umbrella of "narco-agriculture"). "Horticulture" simply refers to the intentional cultivation of plants.

small-scale farming collectives

military organizations

individual families

nationalized agribusiness

multinational agribusiness

Correct answer:

multinational agribusiness

Explanation:

Each year a larger and larger share of the world’s agricultural land is owned by multinational agribusiness. These multinational corporations buy up agricultural land in the developing world at a rapid rate and control almost every step in the process of producing, shipping, and selling agricultural products.

decreasedsignificantly

decreased slightly

remainedroughly the same

increased slightly

increaseddramatically

Correct answer:

increaseddramatically

Explanation:

In the past century the average size of farms in the United States has increased dramatically. This general trend can be applied globally and to most of human history as well. This is because it is more profitable and efficient to farm on larger scales than it is to farm on smaller scales. The general trend is that more and more agricultural land is being consolidated into fewer and fewer hands and larger tracts of property.

small-land holdings

agricultural efficiency

Agricultural production

All of these

government interference

Correct answer:

small-land holdings

Explanation:

The growth of agribusiness, particularly multinational corporations, in the previous half-century has led to a marked decline around the world in small-land holdings and family-run farms. Agricultural production and efficiency have both increased and government interference is fairly consistent.