This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Overview > General > General Agriculture – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Around ..... of Indian population depends on agriculture. A) 1/5. B) 4/5. C) 1/3. D) 2/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2/3. 2. Which of the following was NOT a positive result of the Green Revolution? A) Increased crop yields from industrial fertilizers. B) Global expansion of organic and sustainable agriculture. C) A global increase in food security due to reduced crop failure. D) Increased crop yields from hybridized seed varieties. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global expansion of organic and sustainable agriculture. 3. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of the global industrialization of agriculture initiated by the Green Revolution? A) An increase in energy investment of crops. B) Occasional, unpredictable, massive crop failures. C) A dependence on fossil fuels to produce food and sustain the human population. D) Increase in pollution of watersheds worldwide by leaching of chemical fertilizers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Occasional, unpredictable, massive crop failures. 4. The Kharif crop is grown in the month of ..... A) March and harvested in July. B) July and harvested in September or October . C) October and harvested in December. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) July and harvested in September or October . 5. What event helped geographers and other scientist determine when the first Agricultural Revolution occurred? A) Written records. B) The population of the world began to grow rapidly. C) There are farming artifacts left behind in early agricultural settlements. D) Cave paintings depict scenes of early agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The population of the world began to grow rapidly. 6. The result of terracing on landscapes in Southeast Asia could best be identified as A) Terracing. B) Ethnocentrism. C) Mutliculturalism. D) Cultural landscape. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural landscape. 7. The practice of raising agricultural products or goods for sales to outside markets or for profit is known as ..... A) Commercial agriculture. B) Vegetative Planting. C) Seed agriculture. D) Subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commercial agriculture. 8. Rearing of silk warm for the production of silk is known as A) Agriculture. B) Horticulture. C) Sericulture. D) Pisciculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sericulture. 9. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY DR. NORMAN EARNEST BOURLAUG A) HYV SEEDS. B) IRRIGATION. C) MACHINERY. D) FERTILIZERS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HYV SEEDS. 10. Many scientists argue that worldwide fisheries are declining, yet the worldwide number of fish harvested continues to increase. What would best explain this discrepancy? A) Fisheries are collapsing only in the areas that the scientists are studying. B) More people are reporting the fish that they catch. C) Only apex predator populations are collapsing. D) An increase in fishing technology and increased fishing effort are leading to an increase in catch despite the declining populations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An increase in fishing technology and increased fishing effort are leading to an increase in catch despite the declining populations. 11. Where is the U.S. Corn belt centered? A) South Dakota. B) Iowa. C) Kansas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iowa. 12. The single most important factor contributing to rural land use patterns for most of the Great Plains in the United States is a result of the A) Township and Range land survey. B) Metes and Bounds land property division. C) Physical geography of the region. D) Capitalist economic system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Township and Range land survey. 13. Which one of the following fibre is grown on black soil? A) Cotton. B) Jute. C) Silk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton. 14. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as an important skill for professionals in environmental services? A) Physical stamina. B) Problem-solving skills. C) Communication skills. D) Analytical skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical stamina. 15. What is the purpose of crop rotation? A) Maintaining fertility of fields. B) Maintaining price supports. C) Reducing transportation costs. D) Maintaining fresh products for market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maintaining fertility of fields. 16. Which of these is a tertiary activity? A) Manufacturing wool. B) Selling grocery. C) Agriculture. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Selling grocery. 17. Root knot disease of tobacco is caused by A) Meloidegyne incognitia. B) Agrobacterium tumificians. C) Thermus aquiticus. D) Bacillus thuriengiensis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meloidegyne incognitia. 18. Roca is an agricultural practices followed in A) China. B) Malaysia. C) Brazil. D) Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazil. 19. "Simple tools, methods of using irrigation and artificial fertilizers are used." This statement applies to: ..... A) Commercial Farming. B) Extensive Farming. C) Peasant Farming. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peasant Farming. 20. Shifting cultivation A) Commercial. B) Subsistance. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subsistance. 21. In the winter wheat area, the crop is planted in: A) Autumn and harvested in summer. B) Winter and harvested in spring. C) Winter and harvested in autumn. D) Spring and harvested in summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autumn and harvested in summer. 22. Which of the following was the main focus of our first five year plan? A) Land reforms. B) Industrialisation. C) Cost of food grains. D) Globalisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land reforms. 23. Identify group of transhumance A) Zulus, Pygmies, Kaffris, Hamites. B) Gonds, Bhils, Santhal, Khasi. C) Gujjars, Bakarwals, Gaddis, Bhotiyas. D) Bedouins, Maoris, Kirghiz, Yakuts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gujjars, Bakarwals, Gaddis, Bhotiyas. 24. The group of plant having maximum water use efficiency? A) C4. B) CAM. C) C3. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CAM. 25. In Maryland, soil preservationists produced a new composite map by combining in their GIS A) Soil quality, environmental, and economic maps. B) Maps on soil quality and proximity to market. C) Dry harvest climate, wet harvest climate, climate change, and soil maps. D) Maps on habitat for endangered species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soil quality, environmental, and economic maps. 26. The word 'agriculture' has been derived from Latin word A) Agri. B) Ager. C) Ageri. D) Agar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ager. 27. The enclosure movement first began in ..... in the 1800s A) United States. B) China. C) France. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Britain. 28. Which of the following statements are true about drug crops impact on food supply? A) Farmers in LDCs grow drug crops for great profit. B) Drug crops use up arable land that could be used for food. C) MDC's produce a majority of the worlds Drug Crops. D) Drug Crops are a parasitic and invasive species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drug crops use up arable land that could be used for food. 29. Dogs, pigs, and chickens were first domesticated in A) Western Africa. B) Southwest Asia. C) North America. D) Central America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Southwest Asia. 30. About what year did the first Agricultural Revolution occur? A) 1000 CE. B) 8000 BCE. C) 20000 BCE. D) 3000 BCE. 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