Terminology
What is the definition of a Commodity?
What is a raw agricultural product produces with no processing?
These are the three basic needs agriculture helps humans meet.
Food. Clothing and shelter
This is the official definition of agriculture.
What is the science, art, and business of producing food, fiber, and shelter?
This branch involves raising cattle, poultry, sheep, and other animals.
Animal Science
This crop is Georgia’s number one commodity.
Chicken(broilers)
An Import
Wheat, corn, and rice are major sources of this basic need.
Food
The invention of the plow revolutionized this aspect of agriculture.
What is farming or crop production?
Forestry is this type of agricultural branch.
Natural Resources
Peanuts, cotton, and pecans are all top commodities from this state.
Georgia
Leather from a cow is an example of what?
A byproduct
Wool, cotton, and flax are agricultural sources of this basic need.
This agricultural invention by Eli Whitney changed the cotton industry forever.
What is the cotton gin?
This branch deals with soil science and crop production.
Agronomy or plant science
Imports are products brought into the country, while exports are products ______.
Sent out of the country
What is a value added product?
A product that has been processed to turn it into something else that raises its value.
Wood, bamboo, and clay bricks are agricultural products used for this need.
Shelter
The Green Revolution improved agriculture through these two major advances.
What are new crop varieties and chemical fertilizers/pesticides?
Veterinary medicine belongs to this branch of agriculture.
animal science or vet science
Cheese is this type of item made from milk.
cheese
What does Supply and demand mean?
Agriculture is essential to meeting these three needs both in the past and today.
Food, clothing and shelter
This invention allowed farmers to break tough prairie soils in the 1800s.
What is the steel plow?
Name four of the eight major branches of agriculture.
What are animal science, plant science, agricultural mechanics, agribusiness, natural resources, forestry, food science, and environmental science?
Name one agricultural import to the U.S. and one export from the U.S.
corn, soybeans or cotton-import
coffee, cocoa, sugarcane, pork