Define the discipline of agricultural geograph

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Questions:

1. Define the discipline of agricultural geography.

2. Describe the 4 factors responsible for agric location.

3. Describe Von Thunen's agricultural model, including its assumptions.

4. Describe Von Thunen's crop & intensity theory.

5. Describe the variations to Von Thunen's model, e.g., due to changing transportation patterns.

6. Describe Von Thunen's model in terms of geographic scale.

7. Describe Sinclair's modification of Von Thunen's model.

8. Define & describe primary, secondary & tertiary activities.

9. Describe the factors involved in deciding where to locate industry.

10. Give 3 examples of assumptions in Weber's least cost industrial location theory.

11. Describe Weber's least cost industrial location theory.

12. Describe agglomeration & deglomeration in industrial location.

13. Compare market-area analysis & behavioural approaches with Weber's least cost approach to industrial location

14. Compare modernization with globalization.

15. Calculate Economic rent & explain The concentric zones of agric that result.

16. Compare the concentric zone model with Von Thunen's model.

17. Describe the material index with an example.

18. Describe vertical integration in the food sector

19. Describe industrial restructuring in terms of the transition from Fordism to Post-Fordism.

20. Define hyperglobalist, Skeptic & Transformationalist in terms of core position & moral message.

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