This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Environment > General > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How might GMOs help save pollinators? A) They make huge profits for corporations. B) They reduce pesticide use. C) They increase herbicide use. D) People might be allergic to them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They reduce pesticide use. 2. Which of the following types of agriculture is commonly practiced in the United States? A) Drug crop farming. B) Pastoral nomadism. C) Dairying. D) Slash and burn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dairying. 3. A major practice of sustainable agriculture is A) The lack of integration of crops and livestock. B) Agribusiness. C) Limited use of chemicals. D) An increased "green revolution". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limited use of chemicals. 4. The production and harvesting of fish and shell fish in sectioned off coves and land- based ponds is technically referred to as A) Acquaculture. B) Monoculture. C) Intensive subsistence agriculture. D) Deep sea fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acquaculture. 5. The rearing of aquatic animals and plants for human consumption or use. A) Cultivation. B) Ranching. C) Agriculture. D) Aquaculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aquaculture. 6. Where is aquaculture LEAST likely to be used? A) Afghanistan. B) Israel. C) Scotland. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afghanistan. 7. If houses are far apart from each other in a rural village, it would be classified as a: A) Clustered rural settlement. B) Plantation settlement. C) Dispersed rural settlement. D) Agglomeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dispersed rural settlement. 8. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate A) Ecology. B) Ecological Footprint. C) Environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecological Footprint. 9. According to the von Thunen model, what type of agricultural practice would locate in the outer most concentric ring? A) Dairy. B) Forestry. C) Mixed cropand livestock. D) Grazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grazing. 10. Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following? A) Equipment. B) Labor. C) Funds. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Labor. 11. The top layer of soil is called ..... A) Topsoil. B) Subsoil. C) Bedrock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topsoil. 12. All of the following are assumptions made in the von Thunen model EXCEPT A) Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers. B) Farmers sell all of their harvest. C) The city is located centrally within an isolated state. D) Soil and climate are the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers. 13. Which of the following is true about slash-and-burn agriculture in the 21st century? A) Rain forests are not as risk. B) It can take decades to replenish the soil with nutrients. C) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. D) Farmers stay in one place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. 14. The Swordfish has an MSC Certification label on it. What does this mean? A) The fish is certified to be organic and free of pesticides and antibiotics. B) The fish comes from a facility that follows sustainable fishing practices. C) The fish was not harvested using any form of seining, netting, or trawling. D) The fish came from a Marine Reserve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fish comes from a facility that follows sustainable fishing practices. 15. How might scientists check to make sure their GMO worked? A) Add a fluorescent (glowing) gene (with the gene of interest) to see if the final product glows. B) Add another gene (with the gene of interest), like a resistance to herbicide gene, to test for its addition in the final product. C) Add pests to the final product to see if they live or die!. D) All of the above!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above!. 16. The process by which people engaged in shifting cultivation plant crops of varying heights in order to protect lower crops is called A) Ridge tillage. B) Intertillage. C) D) subsistence agriculture. D) Shifting cutivtion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intertillage. 17. Refers to land that can be used to grow crops A) Desertification. B) Arable. C) Overharvesting. D) Domesticated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arable. 18. What geographic factor best explains why a piece of land is used intensively or extensively for agriculture? A) Precipitation levels. B) Distance to the market. C) Climate region. D) Soil quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distance to the market. 19. The two most important crops grown in the Mediterranean region are A) Dates and lemons. B) Almonds and grapes. C) Olives and tomatoes. D) Grapes and olives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grapes and olives. 20. Which type of agriculture is both labor-intensive & capital-intensive? A) Pastoral nomadism. B) Slash and burn agriculture. C) Dairying. D) Inter tillage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dairying. 21. The loss of the Atlantic Cod around Newfoundland occurred because those fisheries were… A) Underexploited. B) Fully exploited. C) Overexploited. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overexploited. 22. Toyota operates in which industry sector? A) Quinary. B) Primary. C) Secondary. D) Quaternary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary. 23. If environmental disaster strikes a region, ..... may ensue. A) Famine. B) Fallow. C) Horticulture. D) Monoculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Famine. 24. Cultivated rows run sideways, rather than up and down. Slows down water erosion. A) Terracing. B) Shelter belt. C) Contour plowing. D) Strip cropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contour plowing. 25. Which of the following is NOT a major grain exporter? A) Australia. B) China. C) Canada. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 26. Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication? A) Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Africa. B) Russia, China, Latin America. C) British Isles, Scandinavia, United States. D) Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East. 27. According to Carl Sauer, there are two distinctive types of agriculture A) Vegetative planting and double-cropping. B) Shifting cultivation and vegetative planting. C) Vegetative planting and seed agriculture. D) Slash-and-burn agriculture and double-cropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vegetative planting and seed agriculture. 28. The second agricultural revolution coincided with A) Imperialism. B) The Industrial Revolution. C) The Enlightenment. D) The first wave of European migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Industrial Revolution. 29. What makes a pollinator beneficial? A) They make honey. B) The eat plants. C) The kill pests. D) They fertilize plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They fertilize plants. 30. Which of the following types of agriculture would agribusiness be involved in? A) Drug crops. B) Pastoral nomadism. C) Substance farming. D) Livestock farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Livestock farming. Next →Related QuizzesEnvironment QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesAgriculture And Environment Quiz 2Agriculture And Environment Quiz 3Agriculture And Environment Quiz 4Environmental Science Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books