This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Agriculture Environment > Ecology > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 18 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Intensive agriculture involves A) Lots of land and labor. B) Little land and labor. C) Lots of land; less labor. D) Lots of labor; less land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lots of labor; less land. 2. What three grains provide most of the world's calories? A) Cassava, soybean, wheat. B) Rice, soybean, corn. C) Wheat, corn, rice. D) Barley, oats, corn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheat, corn, rice. 3. IPM is likely to use all of the following techniques EXCEPT A) Planting herbicide-resistant crops. B) Intercropping. C) Habitat creation for pest predators. D) Increased use of traditional pesticides. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased use of traditional pesticides. 4. Solid waste includes all of the following except; A) Newspaper and soda bottles. B) Food scraps and yard clippings. C) Ozone and carbon dioxide. D) Junk mail and milk cartons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ozone and carbon dioxide. 5. Which one of these techniques would be the best for reducing water erosion on farmland that is along a steep hillside? A) Strip cropping. B) Contour plowing. C) Terracing. D) A windbreak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terracing. 6. The first agriculturalists were A) European entrepreneurs. B) Also hunter-gatherers. C) Most likely males. D) Commercial farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Also hunter-gatherers. 7. Chemical messengers that are produced in the plant and control growth. A) Tropisms. B) Sugars. C) Compounds. D) Hormones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hormones. 8. What is an ecological impact of soil erosion? A) Destruction of bird sanctuaries. B) Creation of better soil. C) Food for farm animals. D) Loss of healthy soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loss of healthy soil. 9. What were the benefits of the "green revolution"? A) It reduced the price of food and improved the lives of many people,. B) It increased the amount of organic foods available in markets and reduced the cost of production. C) It created environmentally friendly pesticides. D) It created "super foods". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It reduced the price of food and improved the lives of many people,. 10. Which is part of an integrated pest management? A) Increased application of pesticides. B) Crop rotation. C) Contour plowing. D) No-til. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crop rotation. 11. Which of the following is typically true of desert soil? A) It has a thick O horizon. B) It has a rich A horizon with a lot of humus. C) It experiences high amounts of chemical weathering. D) It is dry and rocky with little organic matter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is dry and rocky with little organic matter. 12. What is mineral matter? A) Rocks. B) Sediments. C) Sand, silt, & clay. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Vegetation and manufactured structures that cover land. A) Land cover. B) Land use. C) Urban area. D) Rural area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land cover. 14. An integrated pest management approach to pest control emphasizes which of the following? A) Eradication of the pest population. B) Reduction of crop damage to an economically tolerable level. C) Use of plant monoculture to simplify spraying. D) Elimination of the use of second generation pesticides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reduction of crop damage to an economically tolerable level. 15. Many early farmers of the Western U.S. plains believed a theory called "Rain Follows the Plow." What was the problem with this theory? A) Farming actually makes it rain less, not more. B) The climate at the time farming took place was not any different than normal. C) The usually high precipitation during this period of early farming and settling was a coincidence. D) This theory is actually true. Farming and settling an area makes it rain more frequently. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The usually high precipitation during this period of early farming and settling was a coincidence. 16. Legumes have special root nodules that contain colonies of bacteria. The bacteria receive nutrients from the plant, and the plant receives nitrogen from the bacteria. This is an example of a ..... relationship A) Mutualistic. B) Commensalistic. C) Parasitic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualistic. 17. How does plowing cause topsoil erosion? A) It actually prevents topsoil erosion. B) It loosens the soil so it erodes more easily. C) It exhausts the nutrients in the ground. D) It removes the water in the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It loosens the soil so it erodes more easily. 18. Eliminating invasive plants and replacing them with native plants is one aspect of A) Deforestation. B) Urban management. C) Range improvement. D) Overgrazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Range improvement. 19. The process of nutrients or minerals being removed from soil by dissolving in water A) Salinization. B) Leaching. C) Aeration. D) Compaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leaching. 20. Which of the following is the most efficient method of irrigation? A) Center Pivot irrigation. B) Furrow irrigation. C) Drip irrigation. D) Contour irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drip irrigation. 21. Nicotine sulfate is an example of a A) First generation pesticide. B) Pesticide developed synthetically. C) Second generation pesticide. D) Teratogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First generation pesticide. 22. Livestock does not provide humans with A) Manure. B) Wool. C) Leather. D) Ruminants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ruminants. 23. Pesticides kill ..... ? A) Weeds and insects. B) Insects and other pests. C) Weeds only. D) Insects only. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insects and other pests. 24. People moving from the rural areas to cities is called ..... A) Ruralization. B) Urbanization. C) Colonization. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanization. 25. Overuse of pesticides may result in ..... , the ability to survive a pesticide. A) Persistance. B) Resistance. C) Immunity. D) Determination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resistance. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesAgriculture Environment QuizzesAgriculture 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 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books