Clockwise, from top left : shifting cultivation in Vietnam; Amish farm in Pennsylvania, USA (© BIPS 1999 - J. P. Roudeix); terraced rice fields in the island of Java, Indonesia (© BIPS 1999 - B. Paradot); cereal cropping in France (©BIPS 1997 - CRDP Poitou-Charentes); center: : sheep farming.

 

 

 

Questions

 

1. The classification of farms : What are "arable farming", "pastoral farming", "mixed farming", "market-gardening" ?

2. What is the difference between subsistence and commercial Farming ? Between intensive and extensive agriculture (write down the definition of inputs and outputs)

3. Look at the following pictures. Identify the various types of agriculture described :
- arable , pastoral , mixed or market gardening ?
- commercial or subsistence agriculture ?
- extensive or intensive (in the case of intensive agriculture, is it labour intensive or capital intensive) ?

- a combine harvester

- weeding the rice field

- a feed-lot

- a tea plantation

- ranching in the pampa (or this other picture)

- shifting cultivation : cassava farming

- greenhouse tomatoes

 

4. Write down the definition for the words in italics :

a combine harvester, to weed, a feed-lot, a plantation, ranching, the pampa, shifting cultivation, cassava, a greenhouse

 

5. Match each picture with a number on this map (the map on this page can help you).

6. Try this agriculture quiz or this crossword.