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jake

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In which food production system does part of the group's population accompany the herds to distant pastures and the remaining population maintain year-round villages and grow crops?
 
  A. pastoral nomadic
  B. transhumance
  C. mixed specialization
  D. intensive agriculturalist
  E. modified foraging

Question 2

Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is true?
 
  A. It is typically associated with the use of draft animals.
  B. It cannot support permanent villages.
  C. It requires irrigation.
  D. It requires cultivators to change plots of land, with the fallowing durations varying in different societies.
  E. It relies extensively on chemical fertilizers.



ambernicolefink

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D



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