Cornell Notes

Textbook Notes on 10.1 Name: The Grade Learning Center

Topics: Class: AP Human Geography Period: N/A
10.1: Where Did Agriculture Date: 2 / 2 / 2016
Originate?

Essential Questions:

Questions/Main Ideas: Notes:

What is agriculture?
What does cultivate mean?
What is a crop?
How did hunters and gatherers
survive?
What examples are there of
hunter/gatherers today?
What was the agricultural
revolution?
What factors contributed to the
agricultural revolution?
Where did agriculture originate?
Agriculture is the deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earths surface
through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or
economic gain.
Cultivate means to care for.
A crop is any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular
season.
Hunter and gatherers survived by:
- Hunting animals, fishing, or gathering plants.
- Living in small groups.
- Traveled frequently.
Examples include:
- Spinifex (Pila Nguru) live in Australias Great Victorian Desert.
- Sentinelese live in Indias Andaman Islands.
- Bushmen live in Botswana and Namibia.
The agricultural revolution was the time when human beings first domesticated
plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
- About 8000 B.C.
- Caused a sudden population increase.
Environmental Factors:
- Climate change; ice receded during ice age.
Cultural Factors:
- Preference for living in a fixed place.
- Accident/Experiment = plant cultivation.

Summary:
- Asexual reproduction involves one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to each other and to
the parent.
- Sexual reproduction involves two parents and produces offspring that are genetically unique.
- During sexual reproduction, two haploid gametes join in the process of fertilization to produce a diploid zygote.
- Meiosis is the type of cell division that produces gametes.