AP Human Geography

Unit 5 Syllabus
Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13-17%)
Rubenstein Chapter 9: Agriculture

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

11/5 11/6 11/7 11/8 11/9
Human HDI Exploration Gender Inequality Intro to Unit
Development Website exploration Website exploration Fave Food
Note-taking styles Agricultural History

Due: 9.1 & 9.2

11/12 11/13 11/14 11/15 11/16
Where is food SE & E Asia MQ Reading Quiz Green Revolution
NO 3 maps + 4-level Subsistence v. Von Thunen India Case Study
SCHOOL analysis
U.S. Ag. Regions
Commercial
Online map creation
Notes on Von Thunen
& land division, MN
GMO pro/con
Food Insecurity
From Mocha to Java map creation & analysis
PoP: N. Japan &
Due: Guns, Germs, Vietnam
Steel Video Notes Due: 9.3.1 + ***? Due: 9.3.2 + ***? Due: 9.4 (your own!)
11/19 11/20 11/21 11/22 11/23
Agriculture Quiz
Happy Thanks giving!
Intro Settlements

Due: Vocab Due: 12.1 & 12.2

11/26 11/27 11/28 11/29 11/30

Due: 3 FRQs

* 9.1 = Chapter 9, Key Issue 1

* LATE WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED AFTER UNIT TEST.

At the end of this unit you should have:

- Read Chapter 9 in your textbook and completed reading check questions
- defined the vocabulary on the back of this sheet
- learned the location of examples of various types of farming

V. Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13-17%)

Development and diffusion of agriculture
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Major agricultural production regions
Agricultural systems associated with major bio-climatic zones
Variations within major zones and effects of markets
Linkages and flows among regions of food production and consumption
Rural land use and settlement patterns
Models of land use, including von Thünen's model
 Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types
Modern commercial agriculture: the Third Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution and the beginning of the biotechnologic revolution
Characteristics of the third revolution: blending of primary, secondary, and tertiary
activities, intensification of mechanization, and development of biotechnology
Spatial organization of industrial agriculture
Diffusion of industrial agriculture
Future food supplies and environmental impacts of agriculture - hopes and fears
Agriculture Terms

1. agribusiness
2. agricultural hearths
3. biotechnology
4. Colombian Exchange
5. commercial agriculture
6. desertification
7. dispersed settlement pattern
8. enclosure
9. extensive agriculture
10. extensive subsistence agriculture
11. Green Revolution
12. hamlets, villages
13. horticulture
14. intensive agriculture
15. intensive subsistence agriculture
16. location theory
17. long-lot survey system
18. mercantilism
19. metes and bounds
20. milkshed
21. mixed crop and livestock farming
22. Neolithic Revolution
23. nomadism
24. nucleated settlement pattern
25. organic agriculture
26. pampas
27. plantation farming
28. post industrial societies
29. primary sector v. quaternary sector
v. secondary sector v. tertiary sector
30. primogeniture
31. rectangular survey system
32. Second Agricultural Revolution
33. seed drill
34. shifting cultivation (swidden
agriculture)
35. subsistence agriculture
36. Third Agricultural Revolution
37. truck farming
38. Von Thunen’s model
39. wattle
40. “world breadbasket”