This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Agriculture Environment > Ecology > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is the largest driver of deforestation? A) Palm oil. B) Wheat. C) Beef. D) Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beef. 2. Which of the following best describes the Green Revolution? A) An international effort to stop the construction of nuclear power plants. B) A group whose goal is to improve how nations affect the environment. C) Increasing the yield of farmland by using more fertilizer, better irrigation, and faster growing crops. D) A method of getting more people to recycle paper and cardboard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increasing the yield of farmland by using more fertilizer, better irrigation, and faster growing crops. 3. Which is of the following is not an agricultural school in Jamaica? A) College of Agriculture Science and Education. B) Knockalva Poly-Technic College. C) Ebony Gardens H.E.A.R.T. Academy. D) Green Island High School. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Green Island High School. 4. Technology in which genes from one organism are placed in another organism A) Famine. B) Persistent. C) Compost. D) Genetic engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genetic engineering. 5. If you do not consume enough carbohydrates, proteins, and lips you will suffer from which of the following disorders? A) Malnutrition. B) Famine. C) Anger. D) Hunger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malnutrition. 6. Which of the following best describes a genetically modified organism (GMO)? A) An organism that has been cloned. B) An organism that contains foreign DNA. C) An organism that is produced after exposure to a mutagen. D) An organism that has been selectively bred for the best traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An organism that contains foreign DNA. 7. When one person's diet doesn't have enough nutrients or Calories, they suffer from ..... A) Scurvy. B) Famine. C) Anemia. D) Malnutrition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malnutrition. 8. Which of the following describes a fundamental characteristic of the Green Revolution? A) The application of higher levels of organic fertilizers. B) The addition of calorie, fat, and fiber content to food labels. C) The development of new strains of crops with higher yields. D) Deforestation to provide crops with additional sunlight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The development of new strains of crops with higher yields. 9. What percentage of the world's freshwater is used for agriculture? A) 50. B) 30. C) 90. D) 70. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 70. 10. Why is leachate dangerous? A) It has toxic fumes. B) It can leak into our water supply. C) It can't be processed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It can leak into our water supply. 11. Overgrazing of public land is an example of ..... A) Rule of 70. B) Eminent domain. C) Manifest of destiny. D) Tragedy of the commons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedy of the commons. 12. Commercial agriculture practiced in the tropics is called A) Shifting cultivation. B) Intensive subsistence agriculture. C) Paddy rice farming. D) Plantation agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plantation agriculture. 13. The pesticide DDT has which of the following properties that make it dangerous? A) It persists in the environment. B) It is easily stored in the tissues of living things. C) It moves up the food chain, increasing in concentration at the top. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. If you wanted to buy meat that does not contain antibiotics or was not fed genetically modified plants, which of the following labels would you look for when shopping? A) Certified Humane. B) Free Range. C) Cage Free. D) Organic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organic. 15. What is advantage to using Mix Crop and Livestock Farming? A) Breaks up the workload and keeps a steady income. B) Farmers get to relax during the winter season, and rest. C) Farmers get to make a large amount of money in the summer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Breaks up the workload and keeps a steady income. 16. Which of the following is a positive effect of fertilizer use A) Runoff/ Erosion. B) Increased nutritional properties. C) Groundwater contamination. D) Overfertilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increased nutritional properties. 17. This is still widely debated among scientists. A) Meat production. B) Genetic Engineering. C) How to grow corn. D) Malnutrition in the states. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genetic Engineering. 18. The upper layer of soils that contains organic material, rocks, water, and air. A) Topsoil. B) Bottom soil. C) Topdirt. D) Surface layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topsoil. 19. Which of these would be least likely to affect water holding capacity of soil? A) Humus. B) Pesticide. C) Sand. D) Clay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pesticide. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. Which of these would have the greater amount of humus? A) Subsoil. B) E horizon. C) Topsoil. D) Bedrock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Topsoil. 26. Chemicals that remain in the environment for a long time are described as being this A) Genetic engineering. B) Persistent. C) Compost. D) Famine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persistent. 27. Biotechnology is referred to as A) Vegetative Planting. B) Genetic engineering. C) Seed agriculture. D) Double-cropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genetic engineering. 28. One example of organic fertilizier is ..... which is made of organic matter that is decomposed by bacteria and fungi A) Erosion. B) Compost. C) Domesticated. D) Pesticide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compost. 29. 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. 30. 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) Subsistence agriculture. B) Ridge tillage. C) Pastoral nomadism. 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