Agricultural Production
Key Concepts: Agricultural production involves cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock. Climate and geography can greatly affect agricultural production. What kinds of things are going to be grown in your world?
Think About:
How do the landforms affect the amount of arable land in your world?
How does the climate affect the arable land?
Is the land in your world suitable for agriculture?
What are the chief agricultural products?
Are the crops irrigated naturally or by artificial means?
How does the climate affect your crops?
Is there livestock raised in your world?
What do the farmlands in your world look like?
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How are the farmlands irrigated? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What are some of the ways the people in your world could get more farmland? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What are the major agricultural products in your world? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What livestock is raised in your world? How do people use the livestock? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Use one copy of your outline map to add agricultural production to your virtual world. Locate the capital city and at least 5 other cities in your virtual world and add these to your map. Include rivers and lakes. Include a legend.
Label this map Agricultural and Industrial Production of (name of virtual world)