AP (Advanced Placement) Subsistence and Exchange — practice questions
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Practice AP (Advanced Placement) Subsistence and Exchange in the app →A geographer lists the main ways humans have fed themselves: gathering-hunting, pastoralism, plant cultivationHadza gatherer-hunters live in seminomadic groups of about twenty to thirty people. Such a group is called a:Those groups settle briefly, use up the local resources and then move on. Their movement follows the:Along with mobility and deep environmental knowledge, gatherer-hunters show a strong tendency toward:When tasks are assigned according to whether a person is male or female, anthropologists call this a:Herders in dry regions move animals between highland and lowland pastures as the seasons change. That pattern Some Bedouin combine that movement with a second activity, showing modes can be mixed. That activity is:The earliest form of farming, using simple tools and shifting plots, is called extensive:Tropical farmers cut down vegetation, burn it and till the ash into the soil. That technique is called:That practice works as fertiliser because burning mimics the natural die-off of vegetation seen in:Ploughs, irrigation systems and cultivating the same plots year after year together define:The first farmers to use a plough, drawn by oxen, worked between the Tigris and Euphrates. They were the:Ploughing was worth the effort because turning the soil makes it:Intensive farming can produce more than a family needs. The amount left over is called the:Once surplus allowed people to stop farming, cities grew as sites of trade, monumental building, writing and cPeople share things with no thought of value or return. Anthropologists call that generalized:Two parties exchange items of roughly equal value, expecting return within a reasonable time. That is balancedThe main point of that kind of exchange is described as building something other than profit. It is chiefly abGoods flow in to a central figure and then back out to the community. That two-way flow is called:Money is defined by three functions: a store of value, a unit of account and a:General-purpose money is described as easily available, divisible and:In a factory, unlike household weaving, workers have little control over their work cycles and no claim on: