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Farm Power And Energy In Agriculture Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. The 3 Main crops grown in the US are
2. Cultivating a field partitioned into long, narrow strips which are alternated in a crop rotation system
3. People who engage in subsistence agriculture (343)
4. Occurs when too many animals feed on particular are of land. Causes loss of vegetation, and leads to soil erosion and desertification.
5. What is it called when forests are planted with no diversity?
6. Cutting down every tree in a large area is known as
7. Most assembly and parts plants for cars today are located in the interior United States, from Michigan to Alabama, the corridor known as "auto alley.” Most of these plants are clustered in Michigan and nearby northern states because that makes for easier transportation costs to market demanders. For example, a seat manufacturer sets up within an hour of the final assembly plants because it is large and bulky and they need to be shipped rather quickly because they are not being saved in inventory.
8. Which of the following was developed during the Third Agricultural Revolution? (283)
9. Strategies to improve soil fertility include
10. Which form of commercial agriculture is found primarily in developing countries? (304)
11. Slash-and-burn is an example of what type of agricultural practice? (316)
12. Method of planting crops in strips with rows of trees or shrubs on each side
13. Occurs when the salts in the groundwater remain in the soil after the water evaporates. it can make soil toxic for plants
14. Limiting the amount of timber cut from a forest to prevent forest depletion, thus ensuring its production for future use, is an example of (328)
15. Which of the following crops was domesticated in northern Africa approximately 1, 200 years ago? (284)
16. Which of the following was a short-term result of the collectivization of agricultural production in Communist countries? (277)
17. Which horizon of the soil profile will have the greatest concentration of organic nutrients?
18. Which of the following is a benefit of industrial agriculture? (315)
19. Type of Pest control that used a combination of biological, chemical and physical methods. This minimizes the disruption to the environment but it is complex and expensive
20. A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing (272)
21. Which of the following is not true about market gardening? (318)
22. Medical technology from MDCs to LDCs has reduced death rates in LDCs. This is a ..... form of diffusion.
23. In the preservationist land use model, people are encouraged to (298)
24. When flying across the central United States, the view consists of patches of land about one square mile in size, this is evidence of which type of land-use pattern? (285)
25. Physically breaking down rocks and materials is called ..... weathering.
26. Which of the following is an example of voluntary collective farming? (307)
27. A developer clears several acres of forest to make room for a shopping center. All traces of the original landscape have been eliminated. This is an example of (291)
28. DDT is considered a POP because
29. Because an average wage is $ 35/hour in a developed country and $ 1/hour with limited benefits in a developing country, much labor-intensive work is outsourced to LDCs.
30. Farming or plowing on or along a slope of land to reduce soil erosion
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