HSC Agriculture Study

Plants

100

A plant that emerges with one seed leaf

Monocotyledon 

200

A student uses barium sulfate powder and universal indicator to test a soils quality. What is this soil quality and what is the optimum to ensure all nutrients are available for plants. 

Soil pH. The optimum is around 5.5 - 6. 

300

I am a plant that increases the nitrogen in the soil around me. I have pale yellow balls on my roots. What am I and what are these balls named? 

Legume and balls are called nodules. 

400

1. What hormone is responsible for ripening fruit?

2. What hormone is responsible for growing roots from plant cutting?  

1. Ethylene 

2. Auxin 

500

What component of Integrated pest management (IPM) would most likely cause resistance in pest populations? 

Chemical control 

Animals

100

One animal from Breed A is mated with an Animal from Breed B. (Breed A x Breed B). What type of breeding system is this? 

Cross breeding 

200

I am used to chemically (acid) digest feed. I am present in the monogastric digestive system as the stomach. What is my equal in the ruminant digestive system? 

Abosmasum

300

A disease triangle is made up of the Host, Environment and a Problem Organism. When there is a warm moist environment on a Merino Sheep, what Problem organism can lay eggs that hatch into larvae and eat sheep flesh?  

Blow fly (Blowfly Strike)

400

What is the process called where a farmer increases the nutrition of feed given to sheep prior to mating? 

Flushing 

500

Which hormone stimulates the release of an ova from the ovary? 

Luteinising hormone 

Farm Product - Dairy

100

What does value adding mean? 

Means to process or change a product to sell it for a higher price. 

200

What is a quality specification for dairy milk?  

Butterfat % 3.9 %

Protein % 3.2 %

BMCC <500,000 cells/mL

300

How is milk processed? 

Pasteurisation and homogenisation 

400

If supply is restricted due to environmental disaster such as a flood, What happens to the price of a product? 

Increases 

500

A group of dairy farmers in a district supply their milk to a processing factory. The group of farmers hold shares in the processing factory and make all decisions on marketing. What marketing strategy is this? 

Cooperative 

Technology

100

What is the name of a journal article we analysed as a class? 

Robot milking and relationship with culling rate in dairy cows

200

Name a funding source available for research and development of new agriculture technologies 

Government, private business and associations. 

300

What is a patent? 

 A patent is a legally enforceable right for a device, substance, method or process

400

What are Plant Breeders Rights (PBR's)

A PBR protects new plant varieties. It could be for a new variation of flower, vegetable, fruit, tree or plant.

A PBR gives you exclusive rights to:

• produce or reproduce the plant material
• condition the plant material for the purpose of propagation
• offer the plant material for sale
• sell the plant material
• import and export the plant material
• stock the plant material.

500

Name a technology we evaluate in class? 

Could be robotic milking, GPS, NLIS, RFID, Weedseeker...

Experimental Deign

100

Standard deviation is a measure of what? 

Spread of the results

200

What design feature is responsible for managing variables in experiments? 

Standardisation 

300

I am used as a comparison to understand the effect of the treatment in an experiment. What am i? 

Control

400

What is the mean of the following data? 12, 15, 15, 14, 12, 13, 11. 

13.14

500

Valid and reliable experimental design is conditional on the inclusion of 4 components. What are these 4 components? 

Control, standardisation, randomisation, replication.