This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Overview > General > General Agriculture – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 18 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Pigs were domesticated in A) South America. B) Southeast Asia. C) Southwest Asia. D) Northern China. E) Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Southwest Asia. 2. What dominant type of commercial agriculture practiced on farms near the large urban areas of the Northest United States? A) Mixed crop and livestock. B) Commcercial Gardening and fruit farming. C) Dairy farming. D) Livestock ranching. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dairy farming. 3. Horticulture means ..... A) Growing of fruits and vegetables. B) Primitive farming. C) Growing of wheat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growing of fruits and vegetables. 4. Headquarter of CACP is located at? A) Ranchi. B) Nagpur. C) Udaipur. D) New Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nagpur. 5. Why type of agriculture is found primarily is LDCs? A) Truck farming. B) Commercial gardening and fruit farming. C) Livestock ranching. D) Plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plantation. 6. Why do we study agriculture? A) Most of us will become farmers some day. B) We don't really need to study agriculture. C) So we can continue to make advance and improve our standard of living & to protect our environment and all things around us. D) Because we all all need to know how to produce corn and raise cows. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So we can continue to make advance and improve our standard of living & to protect our environment and all things around us. 7. Type of farming practised to meet the needs of farmers family is ..... farming A) Shifting cultivation. B) Mixed. C) Subsistence. D) Commercial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subsistence. 8. In which ring of Von Thunen's model is grazing for livestock found? A) The first ring outside the city. B) The outermost ring. C) The third ring outside the city. D) The second ring outside the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The outermost ring. 9. The earliest form of agriculture was A) Vegetative planting. B) Pastoralism. C) Agribusiness. D) The Green Revolution. E) Seed planting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vegetative planting. 10. Important crops like paddy, maize, jowar, bajra etc are grown during which of the following seasons? A) Spring. B) Summer. C) Monsoon. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monsoon. 11. All of the following are major wheat producing states except for A) North Dakota. B) Montana. C) Kansas. D) Iowa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iowa. 12. The different areas of the world where Mediterranean agriculture predominates have similar: A) Social customs. B) Levels of livestock production. C) Climate. D) Cultural beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate. 13. Wheat requires ..... of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season A) 85 to 130 cm. B) 25 to 50 cm. C) 75 to 100 cm. D) 50 to 75 cm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 50 to 75 cm. 14. The agriculture cycle begins with ..... of a commodity, then the commodity is ..... then ..... and ..... to the consumer. A) Processing, production, transported, marketed. B) Production, transported, marketed, processing. C) Production, processed, transported, marketed. D) Marketed, transported, processing, production. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Production, processed, transported, marketed. 15. What can be a substitute resource in areas where there is lack of rainfall? A) Irrigation. B) Fertilizers. C) HYV seeds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irrigation. 16. Which out of the following is the zaid crop A) Watermelon. B) Urad. C) Mustard. D) Moong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Watermelon. 17. Largest producer of maize in the world is A) Russia. B) U.S.A. C) India. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) U.S.A. 18. Aus, Aman and Boro are the three crops of ..... A) Cotton. B) Paddy. C) Jute. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paddy. 19. Which of the following regions is not an early hearth of seed agriculture? A) Southwest Asia. B) Eastern Asia. C) Mesoamerica. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United States. 20. All of the following countries produce large amounts of fish EXCEPT A) China. B) Chile. C) Indonesia. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Switzerland. 21. Which describes a way scientists use biotechnology in the field of agriculture? A) DNA evidence is used to convict criminals. B) Fruits and vegetables are altered to be more nutritious. C) Vaccines are developed to help us live longer. D) Bacteria are created to clean up oil spills. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fruits and vegetables are altered to be more nutritious. 22. In Manila, what is the nearest place where you can buy seedlings? A) Agricultural Training Institute. B) Bureau of Plant Industry. C) Commercial Nursery. D) Department of Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bureau of Plant Industry. 23. The two most important crops grown in the Mediterranean region are ..... (Hint-Wine and cooking oil) A) Dates and lemons. B) Almonds and grapes. C) Grapes and olives. D) Olives and tomatoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grapes and olives. 24. Which of the following seed crops were first domesticated in Mexico? A) Rice and wehat. B) Corn and millet. C) Yams and palm trees. D) Squash and beans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Squash and beans. 25. The loss of the nutrient rich top layer in soil is called A) Soil erosion. B) Shifting cultivation. C) Transhumance. D) Swidden. E) Undernutrition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soil erosion. 26. This is a type of shifting cultivation that involves burning vegetation to create fertile farmland. A) Aquaculture. B) Intensive subsistence. C) Pastoral Nomadism. D) Shifting Cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shifting Cultivation. 27. What agriculture do we primarily find in LDC's? A) Dairy farming. B) Mediterranean. C) Plantations. D) Truck/fruit farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plantations. 28. Jhumming in Brazil is called: A) Ladang. B) Masole. C) Roca. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roca. 29. The two kinds of lagoon waste are wastewater and ..... A) Preservative. B) Slurry. C) Pollution. D) Radient energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slurry. 30. In India shifting cultivation is called ..... A) Roca. B) Jhumming. C) Milpa. D) Ladang. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jhumming. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesOverview QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesGeneral Agriculture Quiz 1General Agriculture Quiz 2General Agriculture Quiz 3General Agriculture Quiz 4General Agriculture Quiz 5General Agriculture Quiz 6General Agriculture Quiz 7General Agriculture Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books