What are shifting cultivators?
Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture that involves clearing a plot of land by cutting of trees and burning them.
What are Fairtrade products?
Fairtrade is a movement aimed at ensuring that the farmers and workers who grow, pick, and make the food products you earn a fair wage and don’t experience it.
What are some physical conditions for agriculture?
Climate, soil and natural vegetation are important physical requirements for producing food.
What are the 3 benefits of agriculture?
It can reduce production time.
It is used to supply water to the crops.
Machines are useful for sowing the seeds.
BONUS: Who invented agriculture?
Researchers believed farming was 'invented' some 12,000 years ago in an area that was home to some of the earliest known human civilizations.
Define soil profile and permafrost.
Soil profile: a cross-section of the upper layers of the earth’s crust.
❄Permafrost❄: permanently frozen ground.
What is one human factor in farming?
Population size leads to larger areas of cultivation and competition.
