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