Question

base your answers to questions 9 and 10 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

equally important to english agriculture was the development of new ways of raising crops and animals. about the same time that townshend was experimenting with turnips and clover, an english farmer, jethro tull, introduced a new way of planting seed. in the past, farmers had scattered seed over the surface of a plowed field. much of this seed was eaten by birds or did not take root.

tull instead proposed planting each seed deeply into the ground and then hoeing around it. the result was a heavy crop yield because more seeds survived and flourished. tull increased the efficiency of this process by doing the planting with horse - drawn seed drills and hoes....

this agrarian revolution, as it has been called, was every bit as important as the industrial revolution. the availability of good food, combined with improved infant survival and the disappearance of epidemics, helped more young live to adulthood and allowed adults to live longer. this meant that, by the middle of the eighteenth century, more people were having more children, and the population grew quickly thereafter....

source: james a. cornick, the industrial revolution, lucent books, 1998

17 which situation was a result of the events described in this passage?
(1) migration of people to rural areas
(2) population increase
(3) development of marxist ideals
(4) famine in ireland

18 which event brought about similar agricultural changes to those described in this passage?
(1) ukrainian holodomor
(2) desertification of the sahara/sahel
(3) construction of the aswan dam
(4) green revolution

Explanation:

For question 17:
The passage states that "the availability of good food...allowed adults to live longer. This meant that...the population grew quickly thereafter". So population increase is a result.
For question 18:
The Green Revolution was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields and agricultural production. Similar to the agrarian revolution described in the passage which also increased crop yields.

Answer:

1. (2) population increase
2. (4) Green Revolution