Farming
True or False:
Farming is the activity or business of growing only crops.
False:
Farming includes growing crops and raising livestock.
Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth is called Wetrice or Floodrice?
Which is not a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
A) Land is cleared by slashing the vegetation
B) Debris is burned to provide the soil with nutrients
C) A new site is designated every few years
D) Swiddens not under cultivation are used for fruit trees
E) All of the above are characteristics
All of the above are characteristics
Farming started in the Americas in:
a)8,000 BC
b)9,000 BC
8,000 BC
The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert is the definition for which term:
a)Desertification
b)Desertation
Desertification
The type of agriculture practiced near large cities, which includes producing fruits and vegetables, is called
A) sawah
B) truck agriculture
C) subsistence agriculture
D) truck farming
E) truck hybridization
Truck Agriculture
Before the first agricultural revolution, what were humans doing for food?
A) fishing
B) planting crops
C) hunting and gathering
D) genetically engineering food for mass production
E) buying it in small, food-specific establishments
Hunting and Gathering
What is the purpose of crop rotation?
A) maintaining fresh products for market
B) maintaining price supports
C) maintaining the fertility of fields
D) responding to shifting consumer preference
E) reducing transportation cost
Maintaining Fresh Products for market
Agriculture first started in West Asia in?
a)12,000 BC
b)10,000 BC
c)11,000 BC
d)9,000 BC
12,000 BC
The different areas of the world where Mediterranean agriculture predominates have similar
A) social customs
B) cultural beliefs
C) broad expanses of flat land along sea coasts
D) climate
E) levels of livestock production with the mixed crop and livestock regions
Climate
Farming varies around the world because of ____________ across space
A) cultural and environmental factors
B) cultural and economic factors
C) farmers' personal preference and environmental factors
D) weather and climate
E) climate change
Cultural and environmental factors
After corn, the most important crop in the US mixed crop and livestock region is
A) wheat
B) soybeans
C) barley
D) fruits and vegetables
E) sugar beets
Soybeans
Which of the following is a subsistence crop?
A) corn
B) cotton
C) rubber
D) cocoa
E) timber
Corn
The earliest known domesticated wheat, barley, and rice crops are thought to have originated in Asia
A) 100,000 years ago
B) 10,000 years ago
C) 1.1 million years ago
D) 1,000 years ago
E) 10 million years ago
10,000 years ago
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures is
A) pastoral nomadism
B) shifting cultivation
C) transhumance
D) practiced mostly in the tropics
E) livestock ranching
Transhumance
In the US many farms are integrated into large food production industry. This is known as
A) agribusiness
B) commercial farming
C) food processing
D) mechanized farming
E) mixed crop and livestock farming
Agribusiness
According to von Thunen's model of agricultural land use, which of following products should be grown closest to the market?
A) wheat
B) beef
C) strawberries
D) rice
E) peppers
Strawberries
To increase crop yields, farmers in South China commonly practice
A) double cropping
B) transhumance
C) threshing
D) pastoral nomadism
E) shifting cultivation
Double Cropping
During what time period was commercial fertilizer first used?
a) 1900-1910
b)1910-1920
c)1920-1930
d)1930-1940
1920-1930
Unlike other forms of commercial agriculture, plantations are
A) part of agribusiness
B) owned by day laborers in less developed countries
C) found primarily in less developed countries
D) situated in densely populated locations
E) found primarily in more developed countries
Found primarily in less developed countries
The predominant forms of agriculture in the US Southeast are
A) mixed crop and livestock, commercial gardening, and plantation farming
B) dairy farming and grain farming
C) Mediterranean agriculture, commercial gardening, and plantation farming
D) grain farming and plantation farming
E) plantation farming and subsistence agriculture
Mixed crop and livestock, commercial gardening, and plantation farming
Which of the following is NOT true about GMOs?
A) Approximately 10 percent of all farmland, worldwide, is devoted to GMO crops
B) Over 75 percent of all foodstuffs Americans consume has GMO products
C) North America produces around 50 percent of all GMO foods
D) The NAFTA nations, the US, Canada, and Mexico have fully embraced the idea of labeling GMO foods
E) Africa is reluctant to adopt GMOs because it negatively influences their export opportunities to Europe
The NAFTA nations, the US, Canada, and Mexico have fully embraced the idea of labeling GMO foods.
Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides is what type of cropping?
a) Sustainable agriculture
b) Minimal Damage Cropping
c) Longterm Cropping
d) Ecocropping
Sustainable agriculture
What year was the "Slash and Burn" technique created?
a)1931
b)1933
c)1930
d)1932
1930
The decline in the number of farmers in MDCs can best be described as a consequence of
A) push/pull economic factors, including the lack of opportunity in rural areas and higher-paying jobs
B) urban sprawl. including the development of rings of suburbs and exurbs around major
C) push/pull economic factors, including greater opportunities in rural areas and lower-paying
D) the increase of populations in urban areas and the reduced population in rural areas
E) the spread of disease and starvation in rural areas, which quickly reduced the populations of farmers
Push/pull economic factors, including the lack of opportunity in rural areas and higher-paying jobs