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Potpouri
100
This Agency enforces APHIS' import regulations by carrying out agricultural inspections at all U.S. ports of entry.
What is Customs and Border Protection? or What is the Department of Homeland Security?
100
You would contact this division of LPA if you were doing research and needed to obtain unpublished government documents/records related to a specific APHIS activity.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) staff?
100
This APHIS program provides Federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to better coexist.
What is Wildlife Services?
100
Name for nonnative plants, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, etc. that have the capacity to cause extensive agricultural and/or environmental damage if relocated to a hospitable new environment that is absent any natural predators.
What are invasive species?
100
This facility chronicles the 200+ year history of the DuPont company.
What is the Hagley Museum?
200
APHIS regulates imported products derived from cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and birds in order to prevent farm animals in the United States from being affected by this type of problem.
What is a foreign animal disease?
200
This branch of LPA speaks with TV and newspaper reporters whenever controversial topics arise involving APHIS.
What is LPA-Public Affairs?
200
The use of these types of food products are considered to be the most cost effect way to provide daily essential nutrients to the animals in a zoo’s collection.
What are biscuits or wafers? or What are nutritionally complete feeds?
200
This is the estimated number of non-native species (including livestock, pets, and crops) that have been introduced into the United States since the voyage of Columbus.
What is approximately 50,000? [Of that number, about 4,300 are considered to be invasive. Remember, not all non-native species will actually become invasive when placed in a new environment.]
200
In 1953, these two scientists used X-ray diffraction data (which had been collected by Rosalind Franklin) to identify the double helix structure of DNA.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
300
When entering the United States, all travelers must declare if they have any type of these products in their baggage.
What are agricultural products? or What are fruits/veggies, meats? (Remember, you must declare ANY/ALL agricultural products you bring back from an international trip, or else face a heavy fine!)
300
If a Congressperson, foreign ag minister, industry representative, or individual citizen writes to the Secretary of Agriculture about an APHIS-related issue, this group in LPA would compose the draft response.
What is LPA-Executive Communications?
300
This product is used by Wildlife Services personnel to remove beaver dams (after the beavers are already captured) when the dams are creating a flooding threat to homes, farms, or roadways.
What is dynamite? or What are explosives?
300
When an outbreak of a significant foreign animal or plant pest/disease does occur in the U.S., APHIS and its State cooperators will establish this boundary in and around the known affected area.
What is a quarantine?
300
This highly infectious viral disease affects cloven-hoofed animals (e.g., cattle, pigs); USDA has successfully kept it out of the United States since the last outbreak of the disease in 1929.
What is foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)?
400
This invasive wood-boring insect that is currently devasting ash trees throughout the Midwest is believed to have entered the United States on inside untreated wood pallets.
What is the emerald ash borer (EAB)? (Many countries, including the U.S., agreed about ten years ago to require pallets and wood packaging used in international shipping to be specially treated to kill wood-boring pests inside. Shipments arriving with untreated pallets can be refused and forced to return to the exporting country.)
400
Lady Gaga wore a garment made of this agricultural product to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
What is raw meat? or What is a "meat dress"? [She arrived inside an egg for the 2011 Grammys.]
400
This was the name of the facility that employed the very first zoo nutritionist in the United States.
What is the National Zoological Park? or What is the National Zoo?
400
Name one of the other two Federal agencies beside APHIS-BRS that is responsible for regulating the introduction of genetically engineered organisms.
What is FDA or EPA? APHIS: is it a plant pest? FDA: is food and feed made from it safe? EPA: are plant-incorporated protectants (pesticides/herbicides) safe for public?
400
Under the Horse Protection Act, it is illegal for horse owners or trainers to subject a horse to this practice, which forces them to exaggerate their steps during show horse performances.
What is soring?
500
Most imported goods arrive inside one of these metal devices, which revolutionized international shipping and commerce during the last 50 years.
What is the container? {The introduction of containers greatly contributed to the rapid economic growth of China, the existence of abundant and cheap consumer goods, and the rise of bigbox stores like Best Buy and Walmart.}
500
This Committee in both the House and Senate makes funding decisions for the whole Federal government.
What are the the House/Senate Appropriations Committees?
500
The process of moving one or more pieces of genetic material from one organism and incorporating it into another using modern scientific methods.
What is genetic engineering or genetic modification or biotechnology?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
500
This is the official journal of the Federal government that is published daily and contains, Presidential documents, rules and regulations, prooposed rules, and notices.
What is the Federal Register?