This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Society > Human > Human Agriculture – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Human Agriculture Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. During the ..... , people made tools that were smaller and more complex than those made during the Old Stone Age. A) Ice ages. B) Mesolithic Era. C) Neolithic Era. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mesolithic Era. 2. How did the ice ages influence human migration? A) It allowed people to cross to the America's on a land bridge. B) It was hard to walk on ice so it made migrating difficult. C) It had no influence on human migration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It allowed people to cross to the America's on a land bridge. 3. Which of the following is an example of tertiary economic activity in agribusiness? A) A company that finds buyers for fair trade coffee and facilitates the purchase from Guatemalan coffee farmers for a percent commission. B) A factory that buys fruit from local growers and manufactures juice, canned goods, and vitamin supplements. C) An economist who informs subsistence farmers in underdeveloped countries of market patterns and which crops will be most profitable at a given time. D) A private biotech research company that is genetically engineering a variety of oranges that can be grown in temperate climates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A company that finds buyers for fair trade coffee and facilitates the purchase from Guatemalan coffee farmers for a percent commission. 4. Which of the following is NOT a Disney animated films focusing on dogs? A) Bolt. B) Oliver and Company. C) Lady and the Tramp. D) Meet the Robinsons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meet the Robinsons. 5. What type of agriculture is practiced to produce for sale off the farm? A) Vegetative Planting. B) Seed. C) Subsistence. D) Commercial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commercial. 6. Mesopotamia means A) Land of many people. B) Land between the rivers. C) Land of nomads. D) Land of animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Land between the rivers. 7. What is a land bridge? A) A strip of land connecting two continents. B) An underwater bridge. C) Land that is long. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A strip of land connecting two continents. 8. Which country is most likely to feature Swidden agriculture? A) Congo. B) Russia. C) Canada. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Congo. 9. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides A) Sustainable Agriculture. B) Commercial Farming. C) Subsistence Farming. D) Hunting Gathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sustainable Agriculture. 10. Subsistence agriculture is most common in which of the following regions? A) The Outback of Austrailia. B) Great Plains of the United States. C) Amazon Basin. D) Pampas of Argintina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amazon Basin. 11. The number of farmers per unit area of arable land. A) Arithmetic population density. B) Old-age dependency ratio. C) Physiological population density. D) Agricultural population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agricultural population density. 12. With ..... more certain, people could focus on activities other than finding food. A) Elements. B) Survival. C) Fire. D) Towns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Survival. 13. What materials were first used by Neolithic people to make clothing? A) Plant fibers. B) Wool. C) Animal skins. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 14. How did farming allow people to create permanent settlements? A) People needed to stay in one place to farm crops. B) Because they were raising animals. C) It did not allow people to create permanent settlements. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People needed to stay in one place to farm crops. 15. The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm or cultivating a plant for food A) Desertification. B) Domestication. C) Cultivation. D) Genetic Modification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Domestication. 16. How many pounds are in a bushel of corn? A) 100 pounds. B) 56 pounds. C) 20 pounds. D) 1 pound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 56 pounds. 17. According to the map of major world fishing regions, the Antarctic section of the Pacific Ocean annually contributes A) More than 20 million tons of aquatic catch. B) 5 to 10 million tons of aquatic catch. C) Less than 1 million tons of aquatic catch. D) 1 to 5 million tons of aquatic catch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Less than 1 million tons of aquatic catch. 18. In response to the Earth's changing climate and geography, people began to A) Stay in one place. B) Go hunting together. C) Migrate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Migrate. 19. The Tuareg people of the Sahara and their animals seasonally migrate to the higher lands in the summer and the valleys in the winter. This is an example of: A) Manipulated migration. B) Livestock ranching. C) Transhumance. D) Pastoral nomadism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transhumance. 20. During the ..... , huge sheets of ice were formed from ocean water, so levels were lower than they are now. A) Ice ages. B) Mesolithic Era. C) Stone age. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ice ages. 21. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied. A) Milk-mobile. B) Milk Shack. C) Milkshed. D) Cow Juice Dorm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milkshed. 22. Where did agriculture get started? A) In South Asia. B) In multiple hearths. C) In the MIddle East. D) In Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In multiple hearths. 23. What is domestication of a plant or animal? A) Teaching animals how to plant. B) Letting plants grow wild and animals do whatever they want. C) Changing a plant or animal to make it more useful to humans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Changing a plant or animal to make it more useful to humans. 24. Some people learned to ..... animals in order to have meat and milk without following wild herds. A) Elements. B) Survival. C) Domesticate. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Domesticate. 25. If there are few houses which are spread out, what is the pattern called? A) Nucleated. B) Linear. C) Don't know. D) Dispersed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dispersed. 26. Ultimately, agricultural production is classified as high or low according to its ..... A) Swidden. B) Yield. C) Tillage. D) Subsistence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yield. 27. Which country is most likely to feature Pastoral Nomads? A) South Korea. B) Iran. C) Ukraine. D) Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iran. 28. Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which but which of the following? A) Funds and land. B) Labor. C) Land. D) Funds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Labor. 29. When a country experiences food insecurity, it A) Has introduced policies that prevent restaurants from operating in a free market. B) Has eliminated the availability of periodic markets. C) Does not have physical, social, and economic access to safe and nutritious food. D) Does not have access to grocery stores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Does not have physical, social, and economic access to safe and nutritious food. 30. The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering A) Green Revolution. B) Second Agricultural Revolution. C) Gene Revolution. D) Neolithic Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neolithic Revolution. 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