Agriscience
Agriscience in the US
a. accounts for 14% of the jobs
b. is likely to diminish in importance
c. reduces our standard of living
d. is being replaced by biotechnology
a. accounts for 14% of the jobs
Apartments on one level in large buildings and owned by residents are called
Townhouses
When is water considered "safe"?
When it is free of harmful chemicals and organisms
The inventor of the iron plow was...
a. Cyrus McCormick
b. John Deere
c. Joseph Glidden
d. Thomas Jefferson
d. Thomas Jefferson
The great advance in the world of food production in the 1960s was called the
a. biological attractants
b. Green Revolution
c. Greening of America
d. Great Leap Forward
b. Green Revolution
Agricultural development would be described as
a. rapid until 1850
b. slow in most countries
c. very rapid in the US in recent years
d. rapid in the past, but decreasing today
b. slow in most countries
The world's population is expected to increase to 8 billion people by...
a. 2050
b. 2025
c. 2022
d. 2034
b. 2025
To be regarded as safe, a sewage system must do what?
Decompose human waste
A combine is a combination of the reaper and a
a. corn picker
b. cotton gin
c. cotton picker
d. threshing device
d. threshing device
I feed on human waste and food...what am I?
Cockroach
Beltsville small white is a
a. breed of rabbit
b. breed of turkey
c. type of building
d. variety of soybean
b. breed of turkey
"Yellow Jewel" was the name given by the Chinese to
a. a special type of horse
b. young emperor
c. garden peas
d. soybeans
d. soybeans
Contaminants of food and water include...
pesticides, contact by cockroaches, and feces and urine
Inventor of the reaper
Cyrus McCormick
Another term for starvation is..
Famine
This insecticide is was banned in 1972 because of its damaging effects on the environment
DDT
How many people can a farmer feed?
167
Although plants cannot move to food and water, they survive because of:
a. their capacity to reproduce
b. their ability to survive without food and water
c. their roots, which extract water from any material
d. parasites that convert water to nutrients
c. their roots, which extract water from any material
Inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Plant that hosts nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Legume (soybean)
Infection of the milk secreting glands...
Mastitis
This is a priority in China...
(replacing trees)
reforestation
This technology can sense nutrient deficiencies in plants
Laser
Inventor of the steel moldboard plow
John Deere
Inventor of the milking machine
Anna Baldwin