Agricultural Engineering
The raising of plants and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, and other useful products.
Agriculture
The branch of engineering concerned with design, development, and production of textile products.
Textile Engineering
What is a material made by weaving, knitting, or felting threads?
Fabric
What do we use to measure how well a fabric restricts the flow of energy such as heat?
Insulation
What are chemicals that inhibit the growth of other plants?
Allelochemicals
It is a measure of how easily a fabric can be squeezed together.
Softness
What do you call a plant that grows where it is not wanted?
Weeds
How to delay the ripening process of fruits?
Storing in cold temperatures
A kind of gas that fruits release during their ripening stage.
Ethylene
What do you call materials that do not easily absorb water and can keep water away?
Water resistant
What is the measure of how much a material can be stretched and still return to its original shape?
Elasticity
What is a kind of weed control that contains natural materials instead of synthetic?
Organic weed killer
What is a protein found in grains?
Gluten
Why insulating materials are good for making winter clothes?
It tends to hold body heat
A measure of how much fluid a fabric can take in and hold _________.
Absorbency
Some plants release allelochemicals from their ________, and nearby plants absorb them and die.
Roots
What is the concern of agricultural engineering in today’s consumers?
Production of agricultural products
Production of plants and animals for food
Food production in quantity and quality
In designing fabrics, textiles engineers consider the __________ of different types of threads and fibers.
Different qualities
What must agricultural engineers who work with plant production understand?
Some plants release chemicals
Why do fruits ripen faster when put in a closed paper bag?
The bag traps ethylene gas, which promotes ripening