This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture Environment > Ecology > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The process by which sedimentary rocks are formed ..... A) Heat and pressure. B) Erosion and deposition. C) Melting and cooling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erosion and deposition. 2. Farming practices like plowing, irrigation, and over farming/grazing lead to loss of topsoil through ..... A) Contour plowing. B) Lying fallow. C) Leeching. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Erosion. 3. What factors likely caused the population around Mesopotamia and Egypt to begin farming? A) Climate change and competition for resources. B) Use of irrigation and the ice ages. C) A nomadic lifestyle and use of solar power. D) Extinction of game species and control of fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climate change and competition for resources. 4. Agroforestry provides which of the following benefits? A) Trees provide windbreaks reducing erosion. B) Tress may provide fruit and firewood. C) Tree roots hold the soil in place reducing erosion. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 5. Using machines, irrigation sprinklers, and chemical fertilizers are all examples of A) Traditional farming. B) Subsistence farming. C) Modern farming. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modern farming. 6. Which of these would have the greater amount of humus? A) Topsoil. B) Subsoil. C) Bedrock. D) E horizon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topsoil. 7. Chemicals that remain in the environment for a long time are described as being this A) Compost. B) Famine. C) Genetic engineering. D) Persistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persistent. 8. Biotechnology is referred to as A) Genetic engineering. B) Seed agriculture. C) Double-cropping. D) Vegetative Planting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetic engineering. 9. One example of organic fertilizier is ..... which is made of organic matter that is decomposed by bacteria and fungi A) Erosion. B) Domesticated. C) Pesticide. D) Compost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compost. 10. Which of the following best describes IPM? A) Spraying broad-spectrum chemical pesticides as the first line of defense. B) Complete elimination of all chemical pesticides. C) Implementing a variety of cultivation and biological techniques and only spraying pesticides as a last resort. D) Utilizing only trap cropping and crop rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Implementing a variety of cultivation and biological techniques and only spraying pesticides as a last resort. 11. This system of planting crops on hillsides to protect the soil is common in parts of South East Asia and in the Mediterranean region. A) Ridge tillage. B) Pastoral nomadism. C) Sustainable agriculture. D) Subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ridge tillage. 12. Which of the following categorical groups would require the largest caloric intake? A) Young Men. B) Young Ladies. C) Infant Males. D) Infant Females. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Young Men. 13. What was Von Thunen's Formula? A) Profit= Market Price/Production Cost. B) Profit=Production Costs- Market Price. C) Profit= Market Price - Production Costs. D) Profit= Rent from land- transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Profit= Market Price - Production Costs. 14. How does our demand for beef contribute to deforestation in Latin America? A) The need for more land to grow feed crops for cows. B) The need for more trees to build barns. C) The need for larger CAFO's. D) We need a place to dispose of the large amounts of cow manure (poo). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The need for more land to grow feed crops for cows. 15. Which of the following best describes industrialized agriculture? A) Consumes large amounts of fossil fuels, pesticides, and water. B) Uses human labor and draft animals to grow crops. C) Rows of crop plants are interspersed with rows of trees. D) Uses little water or fossil fuels; relies on human labor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumes large amounts of fossil fuels, pesticides, and water. 16. Which is most similar to intercropping? A) Contour plowing. B) Agroforestry. C) No-till agriculture. D) Integrated pest management. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agroforestry. 17. Which is NOT an advantage of synthetic fertilizers? A) Ease of application. B) Highly adjustable nutrient content. C) Bioavailability of nutrients. D) Fewer nutrient runoff problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fewer nutrient runoff problems. 18. What is food biotechnology? A) Adding chemicals to foods to preserve them. B) Making synthetic foods using artificial, man-made proteins. C) Inserting a gene with a beneficial trait into a plant cell. D) Taking immature plants and adding steroids to make them grow bigger and stronger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inserting a gene with a beneficial trait into a plant cell. 19. Farms that grow organic crops are not allowed to use ..... A) Botanical pesticides. B) Synthetic fertilizers and insecticides. C) Compost and manure. D) Irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synthetic fertilizers and insecticides. 20. Which of the following are benefits of perennial plants EXCEPT ..... A) Reduced erosion due to less tilling. B) Less need to disturb soil. C) Reduced weeds. D) Reduced organic matter loss. 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