Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia — Quiz

Question 4 • World Geography

What is wet-rice cultivation?

Answer

a method in which rice is planted on dry land and then moved to a flooded field

a method in which rice is planted on dry land before being watered by seasonal rains

a method in which rice is planted directly on steep hillsides in terraces and irrigated.

a method in which rice is domesticated from the wild and then planted in swamps

Explanation

Wet-rice cultivation involves starting rice seedlings in a nursery or dry plot and then transplanting them into flooded paddies. This matches choice A, where rice is first planted on dry land and then moved to a flooded field. Seasonal-rain cultivation in choice B does not depend on flooding fields in this way.

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