This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > General > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How might GMOs help save pollinators? A) They make huge profits for corporations. B) They reduce pesticide use. C) They increase herbicide use. D) People might be allergic to them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They reduce pesticide use. 2. Which of the following types of agriculture is commonly practiced in the United States? A) Drug crop farming. B) Pastoral nomadism. C) Dairying. D) Slash and burn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dairying. 3. A major practice of sustainable agriculture is A) The lack of integration of crops and livestock. B) Agribusiness. C) Limited use of chemicals. D) An increased "green revolution". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limited use of chemicals. 4. The production and harvesting of fish and shell fish in sectioned off coves and land- based ponds is technically referred to as A) Intensive subsistence agriculture. B) Deep sea fishing. C) Acquaculture. D) Monoculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Acquaculture. 5. The rearing of aquatic animals and plants for human consumption or use. A) Ranching. B) Aquaculture. C) Agriculture. D) Cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aquaculture. 6. Where is aquaculture LEAST likely to be used? A) Afghanistan. B) Israel. C) Scotland. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afghanistan. 7. If houses are far apart from each other in a rural village, it would be classified as a: A) Dispersed rural settlement. B) Clustered rural settlement. C) Agglomeration. D) Plantation settlement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dispersed rural settlement. 8. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate A) Ecology. B) Ecological Footprint. C) Environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecological Footprint. 9. According to the von Thunen model, what type of agricultural practice would locate in the outer most concentric ring? A) Dairy. B) Forestry. C) Mixed cropand livestock. D) Grazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grazing. 10. Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following? A) Equipment. B) Labor. C) Funds. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Labor. 11. The top layer of soil is called ..... A) Topsoil. B) Subsoil. C) Bedrock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topsoil. 12. All of the following are assumptions made in the von Thunen model EXCEPT A) Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers. B) Farmers sell all of their harvest. C) The city is located centrally within an isolated state. D) Soil and climate are the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers. 13. Which of the following is true about slash-and-burn agriculture in the 21st century? A) It can take decades to replenish the soil with nutrients. B) Farmers stay in one place. C) Rain forests are not as risk. D) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. 14. The Swordfish has an MSC Certification label on it. What does this mean? A) The fish is certified to be organic and free of pesticides and antibiotics. B) The fish comes from a facility that follows sustainable fishing practices. C) The fish was not harvested using any form of seining, netting, or trawling. D) The fish came from a Marine Reserve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fish comes from a facility that follows sustainable fishing practices. 15. How might scientists check to make sure their GMO worked? A) Add a fluorescent (glowing) gene (with the gene of interest) to see if the final product glows. B) Add another gene (with the gene of interest), like a resistance to herbicide gene, to test for its addition in the final product. C) Add pests to the final product to see if they live or die!. D) All of the above!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above!. 16. The process by which people engaged in shifting cultivation plant crops of varying heights in order to protect lower crops is called A) Ridge tillage. B) Intertillage. C) Shifting cutivtion. D) D) subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intertillage. 17. Refers to land that can be used to grow crops A) Desertification. B) Domesticated. C) Arable. D) Overharvesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arable. 18. What geographic factor best explains why a piece of land is used intensively or extensively for agriculture? A) Soil quality. B) Precipitation levels. C) Climate region. D) Distance to the market. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distance to the market. 19. The two most important crops grown in the Mediterranean region are A) Dates and lemons. B) Almonds and grapes. C) Olives and tomatoes. D) Grapes and olives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grapes and olives. 20. Which type of agriculture is both labor-intensive & capital-intensive? A) Pastoral nomadism. B) Slash and burn agriculture. C) Dairying. D) Inter tillage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dairying. Next →Related QuizzesEnvironment QuizzesAgriculture And Environment Quiz 2Agriculture And Environment Quiz 3Agriculture And Environment Quiz 4Agriculture And Environment Quiz 5Environmental Science Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books