Vocabulary
Define agriculture.
What is the science of growing crops and raising animals to meet the food, fiber, fuel, and other needs of humans?
What are three areas of horticulture?
What is ornamental horticulture, olericulture, and pomology?
Which type of farming is most common in the United States?
What is intensive farming?
What farm animal is an omnivore?
What are pigs.
Define inputs.
What are items used in growing crops or raising animals?
What is an example of a natural resource?
What is soil, water, minerals, air.
What is a discipline within ag that deals with technical aspects of food from harvest to consumption?
What is food science.
What is Miss Hughes's favorite food?
What is Mac & Cheese.
Define aquaculture.
What is the cultivation of fish and other aquatic organisms.
Does soil conservation result in more or less damage to the environment?
What are the basic human needs provided through agriculture?
What are food, fiber, and shelter.
How many pounds of corn is a bushel?
What is 56 pounds.
Define olericulture.
What is the growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of fruits and nuts.
What is the most important nutrient needed for an organism to survive?
What is water.
Why is the MyPlate section allocated for veggies bigger than the section for fruits?
What is experts recommend you eat more veggies than fruit.
How many stomachs does a cow have?
What is 4.
Define organic farming.
What is the production system that avoids the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, and livestock feed additives.
What is the function of a protein?
What is carrying out most of a cell's activities and are important in growth and repair.
An Arkansas farmer's rice is is sold to Southeast Asian countries. What does this example best illustrate?
What is an export.
How many pounds of strawberries can an acre of land produce?
What is 50,000.