Updated: April 2009

JEOPARDYOrigins of

AgricultureEconomic Difficulties

Agriculture in MDC’S Wheat

Farming

Agriculture in LDC’S

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GAME RULES FINAL ROUND

- Jeopardy -

This method of existence existed before the

invention of agriculture and is still used by 5 % of

people today

Category A

100

- Jeopardy -

What is hunting and gathering?

Category A

100

- Jeopardy -According to Carl Sauer

plants were first reproduced by cloning from the original plant

in this process

Category A

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- Jeopardy -

What is vegetative planting?

Category A

200

- Jeopardy - The first plants

domesticated through vegetative planting were

probably taro, yams, bananas, and palm and

diffused from this cultural hearth

Category A

300

- Jeopardy -

What is Southeast Asia?

Category A

300

- Jeopardy -Seed agriculture diffused

from western India, northern China, and

Ethiopia to Southwest Asia where these two grains

were domesticated

Category A

400

- Jeopardy -

What is wheat and barley?

Category A

400

- Jeopardy -

In the Western Hemisphere there are two seed hearths

that were the point of origin for squash, maize, beans,

and cotton

Category A

500

- Jeopardy -

What is southern Mexico and northern

Peru?

Category A

500

- Jeopardy -

This type of farming allows the farmer to feed his family and maybe have some leftover to barter

Category B

100

- Jeopardy -

Who is subsistence farming?

Category B

100

- Jeopardy -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

200

- Jeopardy -

What is shifting cultivation?

Category B

200

- Jeopardy -

Generally the only fertilizer available in LDC”s

Category B

300

- Jeopardy -

What is potash?

Category B

300

- Jeopardy -These people depend on

their animals for milk, clothing, and tents,

however they eat mainly grains

Category B

400

- Jeopardy -

Who are pastoral nomads?

Category B

400

- Jeopardy -

How much would you like to bet?

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

The seasonal migration of livestock between

mountains and lowland pasture land

Category B

500

- Jeopardy -

What is transhumance?

Category B

500

- Jeopardy -

This system was developed in Northern Europe as early as the fifth century A.D. to

grow grains

Category C

100

- Jeopardy -

What is two-field crop rotation?

Category C

100

- Jeopardy -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

200

- Jeopardy -

What is the corn belt?

Category C

200

- Jeopardy -

How much would you like to bet?

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

A major food source made from soybean milk and eaten by the people of

China and Japan

Category C

300

- Jeopardy -

Category C

300

What is tofu?

- Jeopardy -A labor intensive type

of farming that had to be close to markets

until the advent of the railroad

Category C

400

- Jeopardy -

What is the dairy farm?

Category C

400

- Jeopardy -

Commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive

area

Category C

500

- Jeopardy -

What is ranching?

Category C

500

- Jeopardy -

The most important crop grown

Category D

100

- Jeopardy -

What is wheat?

Category D

100

- Jeopardy -

The main use for wheat

Category D

200

- Jeopardy -

What is bread flour?

Category D

200

- Jeopardy -

Invented in the 1830’s this machine does the reaping,

threshing, and cleaning of wheat in commercial farms

Category D

300

- Jeopardy -

What is the McCormick reaper?

Category D

300

- Jeopardy -

The largest wheat producer in the world

Category D

400

- Jeopardy -

What is the United States?

Category D

400

- Jeopardy -

The area known as the world’s “breadbasket”

Category D

500

- Jeopardy -

What are the North American prairies?

Category D

500

- Jeopardy -

Agricultural practices that will enhance the quality of

the landscape

Category E

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- Jeopardy -

What is sustainable agriculture?

Category E

100

- Jeopardy -Wrote the book The

Isolated State and theorized that farmers

decided what to grow or raise based on the market

location

Category E

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- Jeopardy -

Who is Johann Heinrich von Thunen?

Category E

200

- Jeopardy -

These crops are a huge problem in LDC’s and in

many cases ruin the land

Category E

300

- Jeopardy -

What are drug crops?

Category E

300

- Jeopardy -

Place your bets!

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

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

DAILY DOUBLE

- Jeopardy -

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Category E

400

- Jeopardy -

This failed legislation tried to keep New Mexico and

California from becoming states that allowed slavery.

Category E

500

- Jeopardy -

What are subsidies?

Category E

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 containingFIVE 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.

Updated: April 2009

Final Jeopardy QuestionFinal Jeopardy Question

This was the first artificial satellite successfully launched into Earth’s orbit.

Updated: April 2009

The Cold WarThe Cold War

What is Sputnik?