7th/8th Review

Poultry

100

This chicken breed is the number 1 broiler breed.

Cornish Cross

200

This breed is the number 1 layer breed.

White Leghorn

300

What breed of chickens do we have at WMS?

Orpingtons

400

This is the scientific name for chickens

Gallus Domesticus

500

Squab is another name for this bird's meat.

Pigeon

Swine

100

This is the name of the pond used to store hog excrement on hog farms. 

Lagoon

200

This is the name of pig fat that is used for cooking

Lard

300

This is the part of the pig that bacon comes from.

Belly

400

This is the primary difference between Asian pigs and European pigs. 

Asian pigs tend to be fatter

500

This is the scientific name of domestic pigs. 

Sus Domesticus

Cattle

100

This breed of cattle is very valuable because of it's superb meat marbling. It is usually black, but sometimes red. 

Angus

200

This is the number one dairy cow in the USA. It is black and white. It is also the mascot for Chic-fil-a. 

Holstein

300

This is the primary type of cattle production in NC. It involves keeping a herd of cows and selling the calves. 

Cow/Calf operation

400

This cattle breed is a descendant of Spanish cattle that were left in Florida after a shipwreck. They lived wild in Florida before being captured and domesticated. 

Cracker Cattle

500

The scientific name of European cows. 

Bos Taurus

Equine

100

This is what we call a horse that is fast, hard to ride, and wild. Arabians and Thoroughbreds fit in this group

Hot Blooded

200

This is what we call a horse that is easy to train and docile. Most of the work breeds, including Clydesdales, fit in this group. 

Cold Blooded

300

This horse breed was developed as a cow horse to roundup cows that got out of the herd while cattle driving. It is the fastest horse for short distances.

Quarter Horse

400

This horse breed almost because extinct when the American government forced the Nez Perce native Americans to a reservation. The American government shot most of the horses. These horses are very colorful with lots of white markings and patterns.

Appaloosa 

500

This is a piece of metal or plastic, placed in the horses mouth to help control and steer them. 

Bit

Forestry

100

This tree is very important to the economy of NC. It grows tall and straight and is great for lumber. 

Loblolly Pine

200

This is the part of the tree that carries sap from the roots, up to the leaves of a tree. 

Sapwood

300

This is the part of the tree that grows

Cambium Layer

400

The dead sapwood cells, in the center of the tree, that give the tree support. 

Heartwood

500

This organism grows on rocks and trees. It is made up of a combination of a fungus and algae, working together in a symbiotic relationship. 

Lichen