Vocabulary
Ag Career Areas
Career Skills
Career Info
Wildcard
100

Monetary compensation

What is wages?

100

Area of agriculture concerned with growing crops, raising livestock and producing livestock products (ex: eggs and milk)

What is production agriculture?

100

A person is always present for work on time and does the job as it should be done

What is dependability?

100

Compensation based on productivity

What is piece rate? (aka commission)

100

A reason that someone may be terminated from their job by failing to do the work needed.

What is lack of productivity?

200

Attribute needed to successfully perform an occupation

What is Occupational Competency?

200

Area of horticulture including the production, design, and marketing of flowers?

What is floriculture?

200

Having the necessary capacity to communicate, dress and groom appropriately, use information, provide reports to supervisors, and relate to other people in the work setting

What is employability competencies?

200

Something an employee receives above and beyond their monetary compensation

What is employee benefits?

200

Agriculture career area that includes all the activities in preparing crops or livestock from farms for their desired product for consumers

What is processing and marketing?

300

A specific area of work that can be given a title and that has identifiable skills

What is Occupation?

300

Area of agriculture concerned with producing trees for various uses (ex: lumber, paper, ornamental)

What is forestry?

300

Common courtesies that help people work and live together happily 

What is human relations skills?

300

The general direction of a person's life in relation to their work

What is a career?

300

A person has energy and puts forth effort to get their job done without a lot of supervision, and seeks new ways to be efficiently productive

What is Initiative?

400

The series of steps one climbs to move up in a career from entry level to more responsible positions

What is Career Ladder?

400

Area of horticulture that deals primarily with food products, and includes production and processing, packaging and distribution, and marketing

What is fruits, vegetables and nuts?

400

Faithfulness to the employer and coworkers?

What is loyalty?

400

A person's specific work where there are definite duties at a certain location and for which they receive benefits?

What is a job?

400

Agriculture career area that is concerned with the conservation of water, air, soil, etc.

What is natural resources?

500

Areas of general education that support and enable a person to perform the duties of an occupation

What is Related Academic Competency?

500

Area of agriculture that is concerned with producing and providing inputs to production agriculture? (ex: fertilizer, fuel, chemicals, feed)

What is supplies and services?

500

The necessary knowledge and skill in science and other related areas to do the work in an occupation

What is technical Competency?

500

The ownership of a business that produces goods or services to meet the needs of other people or businesses?

What is entrepreneurship?

500

Area of horticulture that includes production nurseries, landscape maintenance services, retail garden centers and botanical gardens?

What is landscape horticulture?

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