This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture Environment > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Meat consumption in the US is generally about ..... % higher than the rest of the world. A) 75%. B) 100%. C) 125%. D) 150%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 150%. 2. Undernutrition means A) Not consuming a sufficient number of calories. B) Lacking a specific nutrient such as vitamin A or iron. C) A lack of food such that deaths begin to occur. D) The ingestion of too many poor quality calories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not consuming a sufficient number of calories. 3. Which of the following is not a branch of Agriculture? A) Agronomy. B) Animal Science. C) Agricultural Engineering. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Money. 4. Which of the following products requires the most water to produce? A) Corn. B) Beef. C) Milk. D) Lettuce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beef. 5. What is deforestation? A) Throwing someone out of a window. B) Selectively cutting trees for lumber, making sure the forest remains healthy. C) Allowing more animals to graze on the land than it can support. D) Cutting and removal of rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cutting and removal of rainforest. 6. Von Thunen's Model had how many assumptions? A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 7. Which of the following actions contributes to soil erosion? A) Using compost as fertilizer. B) Allowing land to lie fallow. C) Driving farm machinery over fields. D) All of these practices contribute to soil erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Driving farm machinery over fields. 8. Which item should you NOT put in your compost pile? A) Food scraps. B) Autumn leaves. C) Wood chips. D) Plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plastic. 9. Which type of diffusion is most closely associated with the Columbian Exchange? A) Stimulus diffusion. B) Expansion diffusion. C) Relocation diffusion. D) Contagious diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relocation diffusion. 10. What are common practices that lead to overgrazing? A) Grazing cattle instead of sheep and goats. B) Getting into conflicts with neighbors over grazing rights. C) Using sheepdogs instead of human shepherds. D) Too many animals, lack of rotation, grazing at wrong times in plant life cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Too many animals, lack of rotation, grazing at wrong times in plant life cycle. 11. The purpose of selective breeding is to A) Get bigger animals. B) Get smaller animals. C) Create animals with desirable traits. D) Create animals with bad traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create animals with desirable traits. 12. According to the Integrated Pest Management strategy, which of the following would be the MOST PREFERRED method of pest control? A) Synthetic (manmade) Pesticides. B) Importing natural predators. C) Stop planting crops. D) Plant GMO crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Importing natural predators. 13. Which is NOT a disadvantage of monocropping? A) Erosion due to exposure of large areas of soil during planting. B) Nutrition and pesticide needs do not change. C) More vulnerable to pests that prefer a high concentration of food. D) Reduction of productivity due to loss of nutrient-rich topsoil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nutrition and pesticide needs do not change. 14. A dark brown, crumbly material made from decomposed matter is called ..... A) Compost. B) Brown sugar. C) Saw dust. D) Non-biodegradable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compost. 15. One animal food product that uses the most land, water and produces the most greenhouse gas is A) Beef. B) Pork. C) Chicken. D) Eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beef. 16. Domesticated animals were A) Bred and managed for human use. B) Killed and being used as a source of energy. C) They skim them for their fur. D) Use their bones and skin for shelter and protection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bred and managed for human use. 17. The industrialized agriculture system shuts down without what key ingredient? A) Cheap fossil fuel energy. B) Genetically modified organisms. C) Efficient food processing plants. D) The Food Quality Protection Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheap fossil fuel energy. 18. The order of soil horizons from top to bottom is A) O, E, C, B, A. B) O, C, A, B, E. C) O, A, E, B, C. D) A, B, C, E, O. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) O, A, E, B, C. 19. All of the following is allowed in the wilderness except A) Research. B) Camping. C) Development. D) Fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Development. 20. Mariculture benefits are ALL of the following EXCEPT A) Alternative source of income. B) Can generate a surplus for revenue generation. C) Large inputs of machinery, time and energy. D) High yields of fish protein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Large inputs of machinery, time and energy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAgriculture And Environment Quiz 1Agriculture And Environment Quiz 2Agriculture And Environment Quiz 3Agriculture And Environment Quiz 4Agriculture And Environment Quiz 5Agriculture And Environment Quiz 6Agriculture And Environment Quiz 7Agriculture And Environment Quiz 8Agriculture And Environment Quiz 9Agriculture And Environment Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books