Intro to Ag Ed
This is what FFA stands for
This term describes the process of liquid water turning into gas
What is evaporation (transportation is acceptable for half credit)?
A female cow that has not given birth
The type of land distribution system where land is divided up into different squares. Usually used out west
What is the grid system?
The two colors of FFA (be specific)
What is National Blue and Corn Gold?
A hands-on student designed project to help them build tangible skills in the field of agriculture
What is a supervised agricultural experience?
In class we used this test to determine the soil texture of various samples. It involved wetting a soil sample, rolling it into a ball, and turning it into a.... "string"- of sorts
What is the ribbon test?
The process of a seed becoming a plant
What is germination?
A tool growers and natural resource workers use to measure an area of land without any tools
What is a pace?
This term describes a young male horse
What is a colt?
This 5 paragraph passage (written by EM Tiffany) highlights the values and traditions of Agricultural Education and the FFA
What is the FFA Creed?
This term used in the water cycle describes liquid water moving into the soil, not to be confused with it running into a larger body of water
What is percolation?
This term refers to the male parts of the flower (collectively)
What is the stamen?
A physics term that means any kind of change (ex: waving my hand, gears moving, an animal walking)
A term used while judging animals referring to the overall shape and size of the individual
2 factors that affect the cost of food
what is the location that it's grown, environmental conditions, demand, trade agreements, cost of inputs etc?
This term refers to a combination of multiple soil textures
What is a loam
The most common cause of foodborne illnesses
What is bacteria?
What is potential energy?
The smallest size soil particle
What is clay?
These are the THREE components of agricultural education
FFA, SAE, Classroom instruction
The secondary consumer in the following food chain:
Grass ---> Ant ---> Frog ---> Snake ---> Bird
What is a Frog?
This term refers to a measure of accumulated heat used to predict plant growth and development
What is a Growing Degree Unit?
The process of people moving further and further from cities causing development and the creation of suburbs
What is Urban Sprawl?
The land distribution system used on the East Coast. Land is divided by natural and artificial land marks
What is metes and bounds?