This document poses a series of questions about different types of agricultural activities depicted in slides and the characteristics of those activities, including whether they are labor intensive or capital intensive, intensive or extensive land use, commercial or subsistence, sedentary or nomadic, and irrigated or non-irrigated. It also provides brief descriptions of von Thunen's model of agricultural land use and characteristics of agricultural landscapes, including fragmented farms, long-lot farms, and the township and range system.

1. What type of agricultural activity is depicted in each of the slides?

2. Cattle Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

3. Wheat Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

4. Rice Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

5. Bananas Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

6. Vegetables Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

7. Fishing Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

8. Pigs Labor intensive vs. capital intensive? Intensive vs extensive land use? Commercial vs. subsistence? Sedentary vs. nomadic? Irrigated vs non-irrigated?

9. The Von Thünen Model

11. … applying von Thunen’s basic assumptions … von Thunen’s model with Variations in climate factored in--the north is colder than the South.

12. Market gardens are close to urban centers.

18. Agricultural landscape In the Eastern Hemisphere fragmented farms are the rule Farmers live in farm villages or hamlets Fields are situated at varying distances and directions from the settlement One farm can consist of one hundred or more separate parcels of land In Asia and southern Europe individual plots may be roughly rectangular Narrow strips are most common in Western and central Europe

20. Agricultural landscape Long-lot farms A landholding consisting of a long, narrow unit-block stretching back from a road, river, or canal Typical in the Canadian maritimes, parts of Quebec, and parts of Texas.

23. The township and range system imposed a rectangular grid on the landscape.