This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Overview > General > General Agriculture – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 21 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The irrigation system used in the South West region of Pakistan is: A) Persian wheel. B) Tube wells. C) Karez. D) Canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karez. 2. Transhumance is what? A) Pastoral nomads nomads moving based on the seasons. B) Shifting cultivation using the only form of cheap fertilizer available in LDCs. C) Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas. 3. Which is not a primary activity? A) Agriculture. B) Gathering. C) Fishing. D) Manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manufacturing. 4. Derwent Whittlesey's map of agricultural regions helped to show a relationship between agricultural regions and A) Type of crops. B) Climate. C) Level of development. D) Labor distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate. 5. How many jobs in Missouri is related to agriculture A) Every job!. B) 1 out of 4. C) 1 out of 2. D) Only farming and ranching. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1 out of 4. 6. Food grown for direct consumption A) Commercial. B) Subsistance. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subsistance. 7. How many pathways are there in the AFNR career sector and what are they? A) 5-Agribusiness, Animal systems, plant systems, food products and processing, natural resources. B) 3-Animal systems, plant systems, power-structural-technical systems. C) 7-animal systems, agribusiness, plant systems, farming, power-structural-technical systems, ranching, banking. D) 7-agribusiness, animal systems, environmental service systems, food products and processing systems, natural resources systems, plant systems, power-structural-technical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7-agribusiness, animal systems, environmental service systems, food products and processing systems, natural resources systems, plant systems, power-structural-technical. 8. This effort began in the 1940s and developed new strains of hybrid seeds and fertilizers that dramatically increased the crop output possible from each farm. A) First Agricultural Revolution. B) Second Agricultural Revolution. C) Green Revolution. D) Agricultural Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green Revolution. 9. Shifting cultivation is commonly practiced in many parts of A) South Asia. B) North Africa. C) South America. D) Eastern Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South America. 10. Agriculture is associated with A) Quaternary sector of the economy. B) Primary sector of the economy. C) Secondary sector of the economy. D) Tertiary sectorof the economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary sector of the economy. 11. Subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relative large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a pared of land. A) Labor Agriculture. B) Extensive Agriculture. C) Intensive Agriculture. D) Monoculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intensive Agriculture. 12. Planting seeds in a ploughed land is known as ..... A) Seeing. B) Sown. C) Sowing. D) Sewing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sowing. 13. What is the full form of HYV seeds? A) Himalayan Yielding Variety. B) High Yielding Variety. C) High Yellow Variety. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High Yielding Variety. 14. The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world during the 1500s. A) Transhumance. B) New World Order. C) Old World. D) Columbian Exchange. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Columbian Exchange. 15. Extraction and production of natural resources is identified under ..... activity. A) Non-renewable. B) Tertiary. C) Primary. D) Secondary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary. 16. Which of the following two points were the key driving forces behind the Green Revolution? A) An exponential increase in the human population and the advent of industrial fertilizers. B) Agriculture expanding into arid and previously unarable regions and the resulting increase in irrigation systems and dependence on the water table. C) An exponential increase in the human population and the growing popularity of organic farming. D) A global trend of consuming more plant-based foods and advances in horticultural science from public land grant colleges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An exponential increase in the human population and the advent of industrial fertilizers. 17. Which of these are Millets? A) Jowar. B) Ragi. C) Both of these. D) Maize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these. 18. Which of the mtehods of farming has become more popular in response to the widespread use of pesticides in farming? A) Slash-and burn agriculture. B) Crop rotation. C) Organic farming. D) Shifting cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organic farming. 19. The Green Revolution decreased the food security. There was a shift from ..... oriented cropland to ..... oriented one. A) Subsistence, Market. B) Market, Subsistance. C) None of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subsistence, Market. 20. The United Nation defines food security as A) Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food. B) The ability of a country to provide food for its population in times of famine or drought. C) The ability of a country to safeguard its food stores from hostile nations during war and political instability. D) The environmental stability of the food chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious food. 21. Which of the factors is the one not affecting agriculture? A) Relief. B) Size of land holdings. C) Capital. D) Government in country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Government in country. 22. Which area of the world was the first to domesticate cattle, sheep, and goats? A) Northeastern India. B) Northwestern South America. C) Northern China. D) Northeastern Africa. E) Central America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Northeastern Africa. 23. The production of agricultural goods and products for the purpose of supporting one's family or direct community is known as ..... A) Commercial agriculture. B) Industrial agriculture. C) Slash-and-burn agriculture. D) Subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subsistence agriculture. 24. ..... is the third most important food crop with respect to area and production. A) Jowar. B) Rice. C) Maze. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jowar. 25. Which one of the following scheme introduced by the Government of India for the benefit of the farmers? A) Jan Dhan Yojana. B) Mudra Yojana. C) Farmer Scheme. D) Kishan Credit Card. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kishan Credit Card. 26. Apart from farming, which of the following activities are also a part of agriculture? A) All of these. B) Forestry. C) Poultry Rearing. D) Fruit cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these. 27. Which of the following form of agriculture is most common in Europe? A) Dairy farming. B) Grain farming. C) Mixed crop and livestock. D) Livestock ranching. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mixed crop and livestock. 28. Which of the following regions produces the least amount of wheat? A) Ukrain. B) France. C) Greece. D) United States. E) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greece. 29. Maxi Pak are HYV seeds for? A) Wheat. B) Cotton. C) Sugarcane. D) Rice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wheat. 30. Bhoodan-Gramdan movement was initiated by A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Vinoba Bhave. D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vinoba Bhave. ← 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