Ag Basics
Someone who grows crops for food or fiber.
What is a farmer?
Plants grow in this. It is considered a renewable resource, but it is not renewable in a human lifetime.
What is a soil?
Cattle products that we eat and drink. (Name 2)
What are milk and beef?
A resource that is easily replenished and steadily available.
What is a renewable resource?
The creatures that spread pollen to allow plants to grow flowers and bear fruit. (Bonus: Name 3)
What are pollinators? (Bees, bats, butterflies, mice, beetles, etc.)
Someone who raises animals for food and fiber.
What is a livestock farmer/rancher?
The natural resource that plants use to perform photosynthesis. It is renewable.
What is sunlight?
Products we eat from poultry. (Name 2)
What are meat and eggs?
A resource that is not easily replaced in a (relatively) short amount of time or can be used up.
This equine animal is often used to protect other animals housed in the same pasture or paddock.
What are donkeys?
The practice of cultivating the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, fiber, and other products.
What is Agriculture?
This natural resource is required by ALL living things. It is also considered the most important nutrient and is renewable to a certain point.
What is water?
The crop that makes bread and pasta.
What is wheat?
The process of using a material over and over again, in the same form or a different one.
What is recycling?
This animal is incapable of sweating and therefore, (despite popular belief) does not produce a foul odor.
What are swine (pigs)?
The national organization that started agricultural education and grants ag teachers access to resources to continue that ag ed.
What is FFA (Future Farmers of America)?
This natural resource is invisible. Considered to be renewable, but only to a certain point.
What is air?
A fiber produced by small ruminants. (Name 1)
What is wool, mohair, or cashmere?
The process where topsoil is worn away and moved from one location to another.
What is soil erosion?
Despite its name, this legume grows underground and is related closer to a bean than a nut.
What are peanuts?
The science of growing and managing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and ornamental plants.
What is horticulture?
This natural resource is renewable, but not usually in human lifetimes. It is found all over the world, but goes by many different names.
What is a forest (trees)?
A place where fruits are grown on trees for human consumption.
What is an orchard?
The action of clearing a wide area of trees.
What is deforestation?
The 617,763 square mile area (about twice the size of Texas) in the Pacific Ocean that is heavily concentrated with trash.
What is the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or "Trash Island"?