This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > General > Agriculture And Environment – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Agriculture And Environment Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The loss of the Atlantic Cod around Newfoundland occurred because those fisheries were… A) Underexploited. B) Fully exploited. C) Overexploited. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overexploited. 2. Toyota operates in which industry sector? A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Quaternary. D) Quinary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary. 3. If environmental disaster strikes a region, ..... may ensue. A) Famine. B) Fallow. C) Horticulture. D) Monoculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Famine. 4. Cultivated rows run sideways, rather than up and down. Slows down water erosion. A) Shelter belt. B) Strip cropping. C) Terracing. D) Contour plowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contour plowing. 5. Which of the following is NOT a major grain exporter? A) China. B) Canada. C) USA. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. 6. Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication? A) Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Africa. B) Russia, China, Latin America. C) British Isles, Scandinavia, United States. D) Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East. 7. According to Carl Sauer, there are two distinctive types of agriculture A) Vegetative planting and double-cropping. B) Shifting cultivation and vegetative planting. C) Vegetative planting and seed agriculture. D) Slash-and-burn agriculture and double-cropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vegetative planting and seed agriculture. 8. The second agricultural revolution coincided with A) The Industrial Revolution. B) The first wave of European migration. C) Imperialism. D) The Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Industrial Revolution. 9. What makes a pollinator beneficial? A) The eat plants. B) The kill pests. C) They fertilize plants. D) They make honey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They fertilize plants. 10. Which of the following types of agriculture would agribusiness be involved in? A) Substance farming. B) Drug crops. C) Pastoral nomadism. D) Livestock farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Livestock farming. 11. A mining company operates in which industry sector? A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Quaternary. D) Quinary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary. 12. In recent years what type of agricultural practice has been most responsible for deforestation of the rain forest in parts of Central and South America? A) Swidden agriculture. B) Aquaculture. C) Livestock ranching. D) Truck farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Livestock ranching. 13. Under the integrated pest management system, among the following choice s, which would be used first to prevent an infestation? A) Biologic methods such as Bt. B) DDT. C) Soaps and oils that kill pests. D) Broad spectrum pesticides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biologic methods such as Bt. 14. Pastoral nomadism is: A) Supported by agribusiness. B) Capital-intensive. C) Centered around cash crop production. D) Found mostly in less-developed countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Found mostly in less-developed countries. 15. How has transportation changed agricultural production? A) It has given agribusiness more advantages. B) Farms have moved closer to markets. C) It has mad subsistence farming easier. D) Biotechnology has diminished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It has given agribusiness more advantages. 16. Which type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people? A) Hunting and gathering. B) Shifting cultivation. C) Pastoral nomadism. D) Intensive subsistence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intensive subsistence. 17. Which pest control technique uses beneficial insects to control pests? A) Biological. B) Mechanical. C) Chemical. D) Cultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biological. 18. Commercial agriculture practiced in the tropics and subtropics is called A) Intensivesubsistence agriculture. B) Paddy rice farming. C) Plantation agriculture. D) Double cropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plantation agriculture. 19. Which of the following is not a soil particle? A) Sand. B) Silt. C) Clay. D) Loam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loam. 20. Opponents of GMOs are afraid that the GMOs: A) Will hinder global trade. B) Make plants more resistant to disease. C) May cause irreversible changes in humans. D) Make pants resistant to drought. 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