Quiz 1: Overview of Agriculture

Which of the following animals has been domesticated?

dog

Park ranger jobs and mining engineer jobs are found in which agricultural cluster?

natural resource systems

Match the job position with the education course most likely needed to learn job requirements. 1. research assistant 2. animal control officer 3. nursery worker

3.Soil Studies 1.Laboratory Safety 2.Introduction to Wildlife

As families have become smaller over the past one hundred years, people are spending __________ a0 (more/less/the same amount of) money on goods than they were in the early 1900s.

more

Compared to World War II, World War I was _______ a0 (more/less/equally) devastating to the agriculture community. Choose the correct answer.

not less

Which of the following hand tools was the fastest at cutting and harvesting grain from fields?

scythe

Which of the following is an experiment that a bioengineer would use to further the field of agriculture?

splicing a gene of vegetable plant with a gene that makes the plant pesticide-resistant

Which of the following is a negative effect of the rise in agricultural technology following World War II?

environmental degradation

Working in a meat factory packaging and shipping the meat deliveries falls into which agricultural cluster?

food products and processing systems

What percent of the U.S. workforce was estimated as of 2011 to work in agriculture-related positions?

20 percent

Match the scenario with the education course that would provide knowledge necessary to the task. 1. A farmer needs someone to assess how much a piece of land costs. 2. A company needs someone to match the needs of a restaurant with goods from local farms available in an area. 3. The government needs someone to balance the number of deer with available resources.

1. Finance and Economics in the Twenty-First Century 2. Menu Planning 3. Environmental Management Theory

Match the definition to the term. 1. mouldboard 2. sickle 3. thresher

1. a metal plow that could be used to dig deep ridges in an agricultural field 3. a device used in harvesting that separates the husk from the grain 2. a long, curved blade used in agriculture

Match the description with the term. 1. keeping and caring for domesticated animals 2. added to soil to nourish plants 3. kills insects

1. animal husbandry 2. fertilizer 3. pesticide

Match the term with its definition. 1. birth rate 2. age distribution 3. population growth rate

1. the number of children born per one thousand population each year 2. the number of people in each age group determined by the year they were born 3. the rate at which a population increases or decreases

Match the definition to the term. 1. age distribution 2. population 3. population growth

1. the number of people of each age group in the population 2. a group of individuals of the same species that live in a defined area 3. rate rate at which a population size increases or decreases; determined by the birth rate minus the death rate

Match the agricultural cluster with its general purpose. 1. Animal systems 2. Biotechnology 3. Environmental service systems

2.using science to enhance the agricultural industry 1. dealing with animals and their natural environment 3. finding a balance between people and the environment

Match the description with the term. 1. cultivation 2. domestication 3. hunting and gathering

2. capturing, taming, and breeding animals 1. preparing and planting crops 3. obtaining food in the wild

Match the consumer with the type of product he or she is most likely to buy. 1. new mother 2. novelist 3. dressmaker

2. printer paper 1. powdered milk 3. cotton

Which one of the following wars or conflicts was fought over the use of slave labor in agriculture?

American Civil War

Which of the following distinguishes which bioengineer is studying a topic beneficial to agriculture and correctly explains why? Bioengineer A is studying how to make cows gain more mass from smaller amounts of food. Bioengineer B is studying the process of how cows digest food.

Bioengineer A, because a cow with more mass can provide more food to the population.

If one were to argue that World War II was the most prolific time for agricultural research and development, which of the following statements would best defend this assertion?

Citizens back home resorted to creating innovative ways of making food and crops last longer due to lack of manpower and funding.

Crop production and maintenance is one of the eight clusters in the field of agriculture.

False

The largest population growth between now and 2020 will be seen in children ages 0 through four.

False

Which of the following was an effect of World War II on the agriculture industry?

Farmers sought new technology to help with the workload.

Which option best characterizes the following passage in regard to recent developments in agriculture? "Combined investments helped discover and develop farming equipment, which resulted in higher yields and the need for fewer farming personnel."

Farms provide fewer jobs compared to agricultural research and development.

Which of the following courses would be appropriate for someone studying to become a pollution control specialist?

Issues in the Global Environment

Which of the following best explains how the interchangeable parts on plows allowed for more cost-effective machinery?

It gave farmers a way to easily fix a broken plow should one of the parts break or become worn.

Which of the following dates is used as the starting date to find an item's radioactive date?

January 1, 1950

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

World War I

Which of the following arguments is supported by the demographics of families in the work force?

Not The money spent on clothes is increasing and is becoming a serious problem for families.

Based on information from the lesson, what is the most likely explanation for the following scenario? When Raphael walks into the supermarket, he grabs a bunch of large yellow bananas. These bananas look identical to every other banana Raphael has ever seen because this banana, the Cavendish, is one of the only varieties of bananas grown and sold in the United States.

Not Farmers learned Americans prefer the taste of Cavendish over other varieties of bananas and now it is grown exclusively.

Which change makes Dr. Jordan's situation more plausible in the following scenario? Dr. Jordan, a bioengineer, dedicated her life's research to finding a way to create edible plants that are not susceptible to fungal diseases or other problems that make the plant die before its fruit reaches maturity. After receiving funding from the government, Dr. Jordan developed a new type of seedling that is resistant to major fungal growths.

Not change "agricultural economy" to "socio-economic economy"

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 general population growth numbers

Which cluster in the agriculture industry would be most likely to partner with the animal systems cluster to introduce new, modern procedures to animal care?

Not Natural resource systems

Which of the following statements BEST explains the influence of stable communities on the diets of former hunter-gatherer societies?

Not Their diets became healthier.

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

Not War often causes farmers to look to new technology to help yield enough food to feed an entire country as well as the country's troops overseas.

In which of the following wars did a dispute over agricultural labor play a part in causing the war?

Not World War II

Elephants are not widely domesticated, probably because they do NOT conform to which of the following specifications?

Not able to conform to a specific way of life

Which of the following subjects would be LEAST likely to interest an agricultural researcher?

Not how soil erosion on the Mississippi River banks will harm the environment

Summarize the arguments both for and against allowing genetically altered meats into the United States.

The arguments both for and against allowing genetically altered meats into the United States are that one argues that eating genetically modified foods are safe as the same as eating non-genetically modified food. Some pros of genetically altered meats are you spend less money producing more food, and farmers use less pesticide. Some cons are plants that produce their own insecticide, a bacterial toxin Bacillus thuringiensis (BT), which has led to BT-resistant bugs, and that when the human population that is unwittingly consuming BT, too, since the insecticide is part of GMO plants.

Which of the following correctly contrasts the biotechnology cluster and the power, structural, and technical systems cluster?

The biotechnology cluster deals with the scientific aspect of agriculture modification, while the power, structural, and technical systems cluster deals with the logistical aspects of farm planning and maintenance.

Distinguish the importance of crop production systems/technology in context of the field of agricultural study.

The importance of crop production systems/technology in context of the field of agricultural study is the systems/technology studies. While the production of crops is determined by the amount of customer or sales. They can use the population growth index, for each year. The agriculture field is a field or a piece of land used for agriculture purposes such as crops or livestock. In the field of agriculture study the crop production systems/technology is used. An example of it being used is the possibility of crops being grown in the desert. With this technology, plants have been engineered to survive in drought conditions.

The agricultural industry touches us all on a daily bases.

True

Which of the following arguments is supported by the demographics of families in the work force, as described in the lesson?

Women account for about half of all purchases.

Which of the following agricultural clusters would require administrative and financial training?

agribusiness systems

Which of the following inventions helped farmers claim their land and keep animals on the range?

barbed wire

What comprised the majority of the crops raised by the Anasazi people?

corn

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

coyote

In the last one hundred years, the percentage of total income spent by an average family on food and clothing has _______________ a0 (increased/decreased/stayed the same). Choose the correct answer.

decreased

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 terms describes the practice of growing crops and raising livestock?

farming

In which of the following places would an animal husbandry worker NOT find a job?

forest

Studying demographic trends can help farmers in which of the following ways?

marketing products

Which tools did early communities first use to help them grow enough food to feed their residents and have a surplus at times?

polished stone tools, pottery, and canoes

The thresher and irrigation practices were two innovations that were created during the first agricultural _____________ a0 from 1862 to 1875.

revolution

Which option distinguishes the two cows that would be kept and breed in the following scenario? The first cow was a larger male with a wild temperament. The second cow was a smaller female who produced a great deal of milk. The third cow was a larger female who was often sick. The fourth cow was a larger male with a docile personality.

the second cow and the fourth cow

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of bioengineering?

tracking weather conditions