Test: AP Human Geography

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Which of the following provides the best example of quaternary economic activity?

A date farmer in Jordan that sells his surplus crop to a local sugar refinery

A subsistence farmer in Ecuador that sells some crop surplus to the market, but farms to support a family who lives on less than two dollars a day

An economic consultant who makes suggestions to companies as to which agricultural products to buy (coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market trends

An American-based facility that purchases government-subsidized corn and manufactures food additives and high fructose corn syrup

A public land grant college that develops a variety of rice that does not require flood irrigation and can be grown in semi-arid countries whose farmers are challenged by frequent drought

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