What Is Ag?
Agriculture produces these three main types of products.
What are food, fiber, and fuel.
Teamwork, communication, and problem solving are examples of these.
What are employability skills.
This is one factor you should consider besides salary when selecting a career.
What are interests, responsibilities, education/training, job outlook, employers, or lifestyle?
This invention was designed to make working soil easier and is included on the Unit 1 invention list.
What is the steel plow?
This is the term for a raw agricultural product.
What is a commodity?
True or False: Agriculture only includes people who work directly on farms and ranches.
What is False?
These skills are specific abilities needed to perform a particular job or task.
What are technical skills?
This tells you the schooling or preparation you need before entering a career.
What is education/training?
Farming allowed people to produce extra food, known by this term.
What is a food surplus?
Between wheat and bread, this one is the agricultural commodity.
What is wheat?
These are three examples of careers that can support agriculture without necessarily working directly on a farm.
What are agricultural engineers, financial officers, and landscapers?
A Small Animal Veterinarian belongs to this agriculture career area.
What is Animal Systems?
This career factor describes the amount of money someone typically earns.
What is average salary?
Name two modern agricultural technologies included in the unit.
What are GPS technology, GMO crops, or robotic milking machines?
Between corn and corn chips, this one is the processed product.
What are corn chips?
Before food reaches a grocery store, it may need to go through these three general steps.
What are production, processing, and transportation?
A Laboratory Technician belongs to this agriculture career area.
What is Biotechnology Systems?
This career factor helps you determine whether opportunities for a particular job are expected to be available.
What is job market outlook?
Modern farmers can produce more food while using less of these three resources.
What are land, energy, and water?
These help determine which commodities different states and regions are best suited to produce.
What are location, resources, and growing conditions?
Explain why the agriculture industry is much larger than just farming.
What is agriculture includes farming plus the many careers that help produce and move agricultural products to consumers?
Match all three careers to their career areas: Florist, Arborist, Welder.
What are Plant Systems, Natural Resources Systems, and Power, Structural & Technical Systems?
Explain why the highest-paying career is not automatically the best career for everyone.
What is career choice should also match a person's interests, goals, responsibilities, training, and desired lifestyle?
Agriculture must continue developing new technologies and inventions primarily because of this major future challenge.
What is feeding a growing population more efficiently?
Explain why every state does not specialize in producing the exact same agricultural commodities.
What is different areas have different geography, resources, and growing conditions that make them better suited for certain products?