This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture Environment > Ecology > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which soil has the highest water holding capacity? A) Sandy soil. B) Clayey soil. C) Loam. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loam. 2. Which of the following best describes a hormone free chicken? A) Broad-spectrum chemical free chickens. B) Chickens with no exposure to chemical pesticides. C) Most all of the chickens on the market are hormone free in the first place. It's an advertising gimmick. D) The chickens in Scurry County. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Most all of the chickens on the market are hormone free in the first place. It's an advertising gimmick. 3. Disorder of nutrition resulting from improper balance of nutrients A) Diet. B) Famine. C) Malnutrition. D) Yield. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malnutrition. 4. CAFOs make meat more economical, but may have some negative environmental impacts. These include all of the following EXCEPT A) High concentrations of animal waste. B) Increase in nutrients in stormwater runoff. C) Increase in sediments in stormwater runoff. D) Increased use of land area over other types of animal farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased use of land area over other types of animal farming. 5. What form of agriculture integrates produce and animal production? A) Aquaponics. B) Aquaculture. C) Hyroponics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquaponics. 6. Which is NOT a benefit of genetically modified organisms? A) Increased profits. B) Increased resistance to extreme weather. C) Increased crop yield. D) Increased genetic diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased genetic diversity. 7. What is soil erosion? A) Building up a thicker layer of soil. B) Selling soil for profit. C) Wearing away of the top layer of soil. D) Sink holes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wearing away of the top layer of soil. 8. How much corn, soy, and cotton grown in the US is GMO? A) 100%. B) <90%. C) <10%. D) > 90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) > 90%. 9. Wet rice is the crop most associated with intensive agriculture for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) Is usually planted by hand. B) Time consuming. C) Labor intensive. D) Expensive to grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expensive to grow. 10. A friend tells you she's decided not to use pesticides or synthetic chemicals on her farm; she'll rely on composting and biological pest control. She is practicing A) Industrial agriculture. B) Monoculture. C) Organic agriculture. D) Sustainable agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organic agriculture. 11. Emphasis on use of pesticides, herbicides, and monoculture A) Green revolution. B) Organic agriculture. C) Nomadic grazing. D) Subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green revolution. 12. Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations (CAFO's) can BEST be described as ..... A) A method of producing meat with more land. B) An experiment to test the effectiveness of antibiotics. C) The storing of grain as a nutritional supplement. D) Large numbers of livestock in confined spaces. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Large numbers of livestock in confined spaces. 13. Which of the following is a method of Aquaculture? A) Fish farming. B) Fish modifying. C) Fish raching. D) Both (a) and (c). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both (a) and (c). 14. Which would increase the likelihood of pesticide resistance? A) An insect has only one generation per year. B) Continual use of the same pesticides or pesticides from the same chemical class. C) Applying a pesticide that has little or no residual effect. D) Limiting the number of pesticide applications. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continual use of the same pesticides or pesticides from the same chemical class. 15. Erosion is a danger whenever the soil is A) Covered with grass. B) Bare and exposed to wind and rain. C) Plowed along the contour of the land. D) Covered by forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bare and exposed to wind and rain. 16. From what sources do most of our Calories come from? A) Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins. B) Proteins, Nucleic Acids, Lipids. C) Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acids, Water. D) Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins. 17. Which of the following is the least viable strategy for world food supply? A) Increase the number of crops from different plant species. B) Doubling the global arable land for agriculture. C) Increase land for grain production by reducing land for meat production. D) Create a better system of food distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doubling the global arable land for agriculture. 18. Which is NOT true regarding of the mechanization of agriculture? A) The use of machines encourages farmers to grow several types of plants on a single farm. B) There is an economic advantage to using machines when fuel prices are low. C) There is an economic advantage to using machines when cost of labor is high. D) Mechanization allows farms to take advantage of economies of scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of machines encourages farmers to grow several types of plants on a single farm. 19. A farmer discovers pests have become resistant to the atrazine she's been using so she must use larger, more frequent doses. This is known as A) The pesticide treadmill. B) Both an acute and a chronic effect. C) A synergistic effect. D) An antagonistic effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pesticide treadmill. 20. Why should rural areas be preserved? A) They provide crucial infrastructure. B) They provide ecological services. C) They contain greenbelts. D) None of the choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They provide ecological services. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAgriculture Environment 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books