Unit 5 FRQ (Agricultural Production Regions)

Staple food crops provide most of the carbohydrates in people’s diets, and some staples are also used as animal feed or in the distillation of ethanol. Cassava is a root crop (tuber) that is the source of farinha, tapioca, and the pearls in bubble tea.

Describe the concept of an early hearth of domestication.

Identify the crop listed in the table that has diffused the least from its hearth of domestication to the countries listed in the table.

Explain how food preferences can be a culture trait.

Explain how the Columbian Exchange contributed to a crop’s diffusion beyond its hearth of domestication.

Explain how the data in the table support the concept of a crop’s consumption pattern being the result of globalization.

Explain why a crop may be farmed intensively in a less developed country and be farmed extensively in a more developed country.

Explain ONE way the global supply chain links crops such as those listed in the table to consumers in other countries.