Agriscience BQA

Which of the following countries signed the NAFTA, resulting in the formation of the largest trading association in the world?

Canada, Mexico, United States

A farmer has a great deal of land, but he only uses about two-thirds of it for crops. The rest is "rented" by the government; in exchange for not using the rest of the land for farming, the government provides monetary compensation for keeping the land pristine.

Conservation Reserve Program

Through an extension program, rural farms were able to cooperate with land-grant colleges while the farms were able to provide enrichment programs to the public.

It allowed land-grant colleges to perform experiments in the fields of rural farms.

Which of the following companies created a new type of business model in 1950 that changed how food businesses worked and operated?

McDonald's

Egypt has recently raised taxes on imported goods to force its citizens to buy locally made products. Which of the following organizations or programs would prohibit this act if Egypt had previously signed the treaty?

NOT Conservation Reserve Program

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage to precision agriculture?

NOT lack of inexpensive satellite systems

Which of the following farming techniques does not use soil?

NOT precision agriculture

The War of 1812 led to which of the following events?

NOT the invention of food preservation technology

Which of the following BEST distinguishes the relationship between war and agriculture?

Not - War is a very profitable time for the agriculture industry, and farmers are able to provide massive amounts of food with little damage to the environment.

Which of the following explains why mutualism is considered to be a sustainable idea?

One organism might use another's wastes to create new nutrients.

Which of the following courses might a genetic engineer take in college?

Recombinant DNA Applications

Which of the following best explains the public's shift to support local farming?

The public is upset with corporate farming's unhealthy and underhanded business practices.

Which of the following distinguishes why large corporate farms are losing favor with the public?

The public is upset with the farms' unnatural farming practices.

Which of the following best explains why vultures are NOT decomposers?

Vultures do not break down wastes, and only consume meat.

Which of the following best explains why so many of the sustainable energy options are water solutions?

Water is an accessible and maintainable resource in the majority of the world.

Which of the following wars or conflicts allowed American farmers to make a great deal of money?

World War I

economic system

a complex system for producing

Which of the following would NOT be considered an agricultural pest?

a dog lying among the crops

A genetic engineer would be most likely to genetically modify which of the following traits to produce an improved farm animal?

ability to grow larger while consuming less food (salmon)

The Morrill Act gave land to colleges and universities in exchange for teaching which of the following fields?

agriculture

Which of the following best describes an economic system?

an interconnected system revolving around the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

Eutrophication is a dangerous process for

aquatic

Which of the following sustainable energy source uses crops to create energy?

biofuels

North American Free Trade Agreement

canada

World Trade Organization

china

Which of the following is NOT a biofuel?

coal

When determining the cost of an item, the seller will often analyze the demand as well as the supply before setting the price of the

commodity

dressmaker

cotton

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

countries are able to recieve imported goods

Which of the following is NOT an example of a domesticated animal?

coyote

Which of the following is NOT a mitigation strategy?

decreasing farms and ranges in the United States

Always growing the same crops in the same fields, as done in the U.S. during World War I, results in which of the following?

depleted soils

Which of the following would decrease environmental quality?

draining a wetland

The government needs someone to balance the number of deer with available resources.

environmental management theory

A vertical farm is:

experimental farming inside a controlled dome

Pollution does not affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.

false

Which of the following is NOT a provision of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

farm equipment

Which of the following terms describes the practice of growing crops and raising livestock?

farming

A farmer has been creating his own fertilizer by using plant compost, including old plant stalks. He now has an excess of fertilizer.

fermenting plant material to produce ethanol

A farmer needs someone to assess how much a piece of land costs.

finance and economics in the twenty-first century

Which of the following would be considered a biotic factor in an ecosystem?

flower

Which of these lists of organisms follows the natural food chain?

grass, zebra, lion

economy

in a given region

World Trade Organization

it facilitates and regulates trades between 159 countries

North American Free Trade Agreement

it formed the largest trading association in the world

Which of the following is NOT an example of sustainable logging?

leaving diseased trees to infect other trees

A company needs someone to match the needs of a restaurant with goods from local farms available in an area.

menu panning

Which renewable energy source would be MOST appropriate for lands near a flowing stream or river?

microhydro

subsidies

monetary support given by the government

Due to NAFTA, it is possible that a weak economy in the United States will have a(n)

negative

the purpose of sustainable agriculture is to reduce our dependence o

nonrenewable

As families have become smaller over the past one hundred years, people are spending ------- money on goods than they were in the early 1900s.

not -more

A farmer sells wheat used to make flour and bread. Which demographic would be most useful for him to track in order to improve marketing of his wheat for the next five years?

not- changes in U.S. economic status

Which of the following sustainable farming practices allows farmers to rely on their own water supply, rather than bringing in water from different locations?

not- drip irrigation

is a process that plants undergo to make sugars, which are necessary for the plants' survival and for the survival of animals that feed on the plants.

photosynthesis

commodities

physical goods that individuals buy and sell

Which of the following would increase environmental quality?

planting a clearing with native trees

new mother

powdered milk

Which of the following sustainable practices utilizes the MOST technology?

precision agriculture

novelist

printer paper

Which of the following animals is a primary consumer?

rabbit

Which of the following would NOT be considered a commodity?

shirts

By the 1990s, food retail organizations began to purchase smaller grocery chains. As a result, how many major grocery retail companies control most of the food market in the United States today?

six

By using hot water to generate electricity, both geothermal energy and

solar

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

south Africa raised its tariffs

Economic indicators are based on which of the following?

statistical data

Which of the following would be considered an abiotic factor in an ecosystem?

stone

birth rate

the number of children born per one thousand population each year

Age Distribution

the number of people in each age group determined by the year they were born

population growth rate

the rate at which a population increase or decrease

A genetic engineer might work on a project to create a sunflower that can grow without sunlight.

true

Communities of plants and animals are called biomes.

true

Humans are considered both primary and secondary consumers.

true

While vertical farming may be an urban substitute for spacious farmlands, there is no guarantee that it will be a reliable substitute for regular farms.

true

An elementary school in New York City wants to teach students the benefit of sustainable farming.

urban greenhouse

Which of the following is a sustainable practice in which people build small gardens on rooftops or in vacant lots?

urban greenhouse