10 Questions
What is the literal meaning of the term 'geography'?
The Earth description
What does geography seek to understand?
Earth and its human and natural complexities
Who was the Greek scholar credited with the first recorded use of the word 'γεωγραφία'?
Eratosthenes
What has geography been called due to its interdisciplinary nature?
A bridge between natural science and social science disciplines
When do the concepts of geography, such as cartography, date back to?
The earliest attempts to understand the world spatially
When did nascent farmers begin planting grains?
105,000 years ago
When were sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle domesticated?
Around 10,000 years ago
In the twentieth century, what type of agriculture came to dominate agricultural output?
Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures
What percentage of the world's farmland is operated by the largest one percent of farms?
More than 70 percent
How much of the world's food do small farms produce?
About a third
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