JEOPARDY GAME RULES FINAL ROUND Origins of Agriculture

JEOPARDY GAME RULES FINAL ROUND Origins of Agriculture in LDC’S Agriculture in MDC’S 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500 Updated: April 2009 Wheat Farming Economic Difficulties

Category A - Jeopardy - 100 This method of existence existed before the invention of agriculture and is still used by 5 % of people today

Category A - Jeopardy - 100 What is hunting and gathering?

Category A - Jeopardy - 200 According to Carl Sauer plants were first reproduced by cloning from the original plant in this process

Category A - Jeopardy - What is vegetative planting? 200

Category A - Jeopardy - 300 The first plants domesticated through vegetative planting were probably taro, yams, bananas, and palm and diffused from this cultural hearth

Category A - Jeopardy - What is Southeast Asia? 300

Category A - Jeopardy - 400 Seed agriculture diffused from western India, northern China, and Ethiopia to Southwest Asia where these two grains were domesticated

Category A - Jeopardy - What is wheat and barley? 400

Category A - Jeopardy - 500 In the Western Hemisphere there are two seed hearths that were the point of origin for squash, maize, beans, and cotton

Category A - Jeopardy - What is southern Mexico and northern Peru? 500

Category B - Jeopardy - 100 This type of farming allows the farmer to feed his family and maybe have some leftover to barter

Category B - Jeopardy - Who is subsistence farming? 100

Category B - Jeopardy - 200 This type of farming involves slashing and burning a field, growing crops for a few seasons and then moving to a new area

Category B - Jeopardy - What is shifting cultivation? 200

Category B - Jeopardy - 300 Generally the only fertilizer available in LDC”s

Category B - Jeopardy - What is potash? 300

Category B - Jeopardy - 400 These people depend on their animals for milk, clothing, and tents, however they eat mainly grains

Category B - Jeopardy - Who are pastoral nomads? 400

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE How much would you like to bet?

Category B - Jeopardy - 500 The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture land

Category B - Jeopardy What is transhumance? 500

Category C - Jeopardy - 100 This system was developed in Northern Europe as early as the fifth century A. D. to grow grains

Category C - Jeopardy - 100 What is two-field crop rotation?

Category C - Jeopardy - 200 The area of mixed crop and livestock farming in the U. S. that extends from Ohio to the Dakotas and is also known by this name

Category C - Jeopardy - What is the corn belt? 200

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE How much would you like to bet?

Category C - Jeopardy - A major food source made from soybean milk and eaten by the people of China and Japan 300

Category C - Jeopardy What is tofu? 300

Category C - Jeopardy - 400 A labor intensive type of farming that had to be close to markets until the advent of the railroad

Category C - Jeopardy - What is the dairy farm? 400

Category C - Jeopardy - 500 Commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area

Category C - Jeopardy - What is ranching? 500

Category D - Jeopardy - 100 The most important crop grown

Category D - Jeopardy - What is wheat? 100

Category D - Jeopardy - The main use for wheat 200

Category D - Jeopardy What is bread flour? 200

Category D - Jeopardy - 300 Invented in the 1830’s this machine does the reaping, threshing, and cleaning of wheat in commercial farms

Category D - Jeopardy - What is the Mc. Cormick reaper? 300

Category D - Jeopardy - 400 The largest wheat producer in the world

Category D - Jeopardy What is the United States? 400

Category D - Jeopardy - The area known as the world’s “breadbasket” 500

Category D - Jeopardy - 500 What are the North American prairies?

Category E - Jeopardy - 100 Agricultural practices that will enhance the quality of the landscape

Category E - Jeopardy - 100 What is sustainable agriculture?

Category E - Jeopardy - 200 Wrote the book The Isolated State and theorized that farmers decided what to grow or raise based on the market location

Category E - Jeopardy - Who is Johann Heinrich von Thunen? 200

Category E - Jeopardy - 300 These crops are a huge problem in LDC’s and in many cases ruin the land

Category E - Jeopardy - What are drug crops? 300

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE Place your bets!

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE Government payments to farmers to keep them from growing a crop or to get farmers to grow a crop that is less valuable then one they would normally grow

Category E - Jeopardy What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 400

Category E - Jeopardy - 500 This failed legislation tried to keep New Mexico and California from becoming states that allowed slavery.

Category E - Jeopardy What are subsidies? 500

- Jeopardy Welcome to Jeopardy! The fun and sneaky way to review material for the upcoming test!

- Jeopardy And now… a brief introduction to the RULES of the GAME…

- Jeopardy Each group must: a) SIT TOGETHER, and b) Designate a SPEAKER who will respond to the prompts (You may NOT change speakers).

- Jeopardy The game consists of FIVE categories, each containing FIVE questions

- Jeopardy Questions are randomly arranged, NOT by degree of difficulty

- Jeopardy Each speaker may select only ONE question per round

- Jeopardy Once the selected question is posted on the screen, the SPEAKER of the team has 10 seconds to respond.

- Jeopardy The speaker may consult with teammates before responding

- Jeopardy During the game, whispering is OK, but LOUD talking and/or disruptions DURING THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire team.

- Jeopardy The response should be phrased in the FORM OF A QUESTION. (Words, phrases, and statements – even if correct – may be disqualified)

- Jeopardy A CORRECT ANSWER earns the team the amount of points indicated on the jeopardy board.

- Jeopardy If the speaker does not respond correctly within 10 seconds, the question passes on to the next team speaker, who has 5 seconds to respond.

- Jeopardy The number of points for the correct answer at this stage are the same as for the previous team.

- Jeopardy Questions that are not answered correctly by the selecting team are offered to the other teams in turn until a correct answer is given or all teams have guessed incorrectly.

- Jeopardy For the Daily Double, the speaker designates the number of points – up to the max. points earned by the team. If correct, the team earns the designated points; if incorrect, they lose the designated points.

- Jeopardy Again, whispering is OK, but remember, LOUD TALKING and/or DISRUPTIONS DURING THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire team.

- Jeopardy The judge’s decisions are FINAL and whining, pouting, and/or complaints will NOT BE ENTERTAINED…

- Jeopardy - Ready to play?

- Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Topic: The Cold War You may wager up to the amount of points your team has earned. Write your wager on a piece of paper and submit it.

Final Jeopardy Question This was the first artificial satellite successfully launched into Earth’s orbit. Updated: April 2009

The Cold War What is Sputnik? Updated: April 2009