AP BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

BIOMES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first 3 stages of shifting cultivation are:
A
planting into ash, burning vegetation, planting crops
B
selecting a site, burning vegetation, planting into ash
C
selecting a site, cutting down trees, drying vegetation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The steps of Shifting Cultivation are to choose an area for planting, remove the vegetation and clear the land, burn the debris carefully, after the rain, the ashes mix with the soil and provide essential nutrients, leave the old land uncropped for 10 to 25 years, and cultivate the land again after 10 to 20 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -The different forms of shifting cultivation described include slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation, the chitemene system, the Hmong system, shifting cultivation cycle in the Orinoco floodplain, the slash-mulch system, and the plough-in-slash system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shifting cultivation is an agricultural practice in which a plot of land was cultivated temporarily and is abandoned to allow vegetation to grow freely while the cultivator moves to another plot.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ploughing is the first step in the farming process.

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