This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Overview > General > General Agriculture – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Growing flowers are identified under A) Pisciculture. B) Viticulture. C) Horticulture. D) Sericulture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horticulture. 2. Which of the following is Rabi Crop? A) Rice. B) Maize. C) Wheat. D) Cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheat. 3. Out of the following which is not a cropping season of India? A) Kharif. B) Kaffir. C) Rabi. D) Zaid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kaffir. 4. Food grown for sale A) Commercial. B) Subsistance. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commercial. 5. The country that produces the most maize/corn in the world is A) Russia. B) The United States. C) Brazil. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The United States. 6. Shifting cultivation is most common in which type of climate? A) Highlands. B) Cold mid-latitude. C) Humid low-latitude. D) Dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humid low-latitude. 7. Which of the following factors is emphasized the most in Von Thunen's model? A) Transportation cost. B) Machinery cost. C) Labor cost. D) Fertilizer cost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transportation cost. 8. Which of the following statements is true of the Von Thunen model today? A) Most communities still get the majority of their food from local sources. B) Despite modern transportation, the distribution of crops is still similar to the model. C) Crops cannot be transported far with out spoilage. D) Wood is still an import fuel source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Despite modern transportation, the distribution of crops is still similar to the model. 9. Which on of the following is incorrect as regards to commercial farming? A) Use of heavy doses of modern inputs. B) Crops are grown for sale. C) Family members are involved in growing crops. D) Practised on large land holdings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Family members are involved in growing crops. 10. Which one of the following statements is incorrect as regards to commercial farming? A) Use of heavy doses of modem inputs. B) Crops are grown for sale. C) Family members are involved in growing crops. D) Practised on large land holdings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Family members are involved in growing crops. 11. Rubber plantation is famous in: A) (b) Brazil. B) A) Sri Lanka. C) (d) USA. D) (c) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (c) Malaysia. 12. Following corn, this type of crop is the most important crop in the mixed crop and livestock region: A) Soybeans. B) Wheat. C) Barley. D) Fruits and vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soybeans. 13. An agricultural activity involving the raising of livestock, most commonly cows and goats, for dairy products such as milk, cheese, and butter. A) Milk Farming. B) Dairying. C) Cheesing. D) Milkshed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dairying. 14. The main cause of water logging in Pakistan is due to the construction of A) Inundation canals. B) Barrages. C) Tube wells. D) Perennial canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inundation canals. 15. In the U.S., many farms are integrated into a large food production industry. This is known as: A) Agribusiness. B) Commercial farming. C) Mechanized farming. D) Food processing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agribusiness. 16. Which of the following is not commercial farming? A) Pastoral nomadism. B) Agribusiness. C) Mediterranean. D) Livestock and Cattle Ranching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pastoral nomadism. 17. Which of the following is a characteristic of a dairy farm outside of a milkshed? A) Produces primarily fresh milk. B) Has a focus on processed milk; such as butter or cheese. C) Needs very few refrigerated trucks. D) None of the above are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has a focus on processed milk; such as butter or cheese. 18. Millets are known as: A) Multigrains. B) Fine Grains. C) Coarse grains. D) Artificial grains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coarse grains. 19. Which statement correctly describes hunting and gathering? A) All humans began to obtain their food this way after agriculture was invented. B) Hunters and gathers settled in one area permanently and established large communities. C) It disappeared completely due to industrialization and modernized agriculture. D) It still practiced in some areas despite the modernization of agriculture in some areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It still practiced in some areas despite the modernization of agriculture in some areas. 20. Using the food supply chain, how does our food get produced? The ..... takes the commodity to the ..... then it goes to the ..... then to the ..... A) Restaurant or grocer, grower, processor, distributor. B) Processor, grower, distributor, restaurant or grocer. C) Grower, processor, distributor, restaurant or grocer. D) Distributor, restaurant or grocer, processor, grower. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grower, processor, distributor, restaurant or grocer. 21. To increase yields what practice to farmers in SE China engage in? A) Double cropping. B) Slash and burn. C) Threshing. D) Crop rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Double cropping. 22. Rabi crops are sown in winter from October to December and harvested in summer from April to ..... A) June. B) August. C) July. D) May. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) July. 23. What is the principal grain consumed in developed countries in Europe and North America? A) Wheat. B) Rice. C) Corn. D) Sorghum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wheat. 24. Truck farming is a term that derives from the Middle-English word truck, meaning A) "mobility" or "movement.". B) "bartering" or "exchange of commodities.". C) "cart. D) "subsiding" as in "subsistence agriculture.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "bartering" or "exchange of commodities.". 25. Which was probably the first form of agriculture in human history? A) Slash-and-burn farming. B) Seed agriculture. C) Hunting and Gathering. D) Pastoral nomadism. E) Shifting cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hunting and Gathering. 26. Which of the following was the main focus of First Five Year plan? A) Cost of food grains. B) Land reforms. C) Industrialisation. D) Globalisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Land reforms. 27. The most significant factor as to why North China grows crops other than wet rice is ..... A) Climate. B) Ethnic precedence. C) Cultural tradition. D) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climate. 28. Commercial agriculture is distinguished from subsistence agriculture by all but which of the following? A) Heavy use of machinery. B) Farm size. C) Output consumed on the farm. D) Low percentage of farmers in the labor force. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Output consumed on the farm. 29. The two main wheat growing regions are A) The Ganga-Satluj plains and Deccan trap. B) North Eastern part and eastern coastal plains. C) Deccan plateau and Konkan coast. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Ganga-Satluj plains and Deccan trap. 30. Which of the following was probably the first type of agriculture in human history? A) Seed Agriculture. B) Aquaculture. C) Pastoral Nomadism. D) Hunting and Gathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hunting and Gathering. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesOverview QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesGeneral Agriculture Quiz 1General Agriculture Quiz 3General Agriculture Quiz 4General Agriculture Quiz 5General Agriculture Quiz 6General Agriculture Quiz 7General Agriculture Quiz 8General Agriculture Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books