This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Farm Power Energy > Mechanics > Farm Power And Energy In Agriculture – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Farm Power And Energy In Agriculture Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Omaha World Herald building is located in Downtown Omaha. Because the newspaper is a perishable product, it is located near the major markets of downtown buyers. Although many people get their news from computers, there are still many Omaha-ins that want their newspaper delivered that day. A) Site-labor. B) Situation-neither. C) Situation-bulk gaining. D) Site-capital. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situation-neither. 2. By consuming more plants than beef we could A) Conserve water. B) Reduce antibiotics and growth hormones. C) Improve topsoil. D) All answers are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are true. 3. Regular rotation of livestock between different pastures in order to avoid overgrazing in a particular area A) Rotational grazing. B) Rotational crops. C) Contour plowing. D) Perennial grazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotational grazing. 4. Largest Human Use of freshwater (70%) is for A) Agricultural use. B) Residential use. C) Industrial use. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agricultural use. 5. Which of the following events was GMOs introduced? A) First Agricultural Revolution. B) Second Agricultural Revolution. C) First Green Revolution. D) Second Green Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Second Green Revolution. 6. Which of the following is an example of the implementation of the sustainable land use model? (302) A) A logger who cuts down trees for lumber plants more trees. B) A farmer plants only what is needed to feed his or her family. C) A herder moves from one location to another in order to find food for his or her herd. D) A developer clears a plot of land for a shopping mall and makes a donation to a conservation fund. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A logger who cuts down trees for lumber plants more trees. 7. Which of the following is an example of agribusiness? (332) A) Selling handwoven wool rugs. B) Processing crops into canned food. C) Cutting trees for lumber. D) Mining coal for energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Processing crops into canned food. 8. The theory that people will do what is in their own best interest even when it is not in the best interest of the common good is called (300) A) Theory of nonsustainability. B) Tragedy of the commons. C) Comedy of the anticommons. D) Theory of best self-interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy of the commons. 9. Which of the following is NOT a physical site characteristic? A) Amount of rainfall. B) Type of soil. C) Elevation. D) Location relative to transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Location relative to transportation. 10. A society that relies on the cultivation of land is known as (311) A) Metropolitan. B) Naturalist. C) Hunter-gatherer. D) Agrarian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agrarian. 11. Which of the following methods of farming has become more popular in response to the widespread use of pesticides in farming? (280) A) Crop rotation. B) Organic farming. C) Shifting agriculture. D) Agricultural industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organic farming. 12. All of the following are plantation crops EXCEPT (278) A) Tea. B) Sugar cane. C) Rubber. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wheat. 13. All of the following are true of the beginning of agriculture EXCEPT (344) A) Evidence for domestication of the founder crops of agriculture has been dated to about 9500 BCE in the Fertile Crescent. B) Agriculture grew up in many areas of the world between 9500BCE and about 7000 BCE. C) By the Bronze Age, agriculture was being practiced on a fairly large scale in many parts of the world. D) Early animal domestication arose at nearly the same time as the earliest evidence of plant domestication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By the Bronze Age, agriculture was being practiced on a fairly large scale in many parts of the world. 14. The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force. A) Demography. B) Zero population growth. C) Overpopulation. D) Dependency ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dependency ratio. 15. Land that is highly compromised by overgrazing and desertification A) Rangelands. B) Farms. C) Urbanized Cities. D) Tree Plantations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rangelands. 16. Mineral fuels are also known as (297) A) Coal. B) Fossil fuels. C) Stored reserves. D) Natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fossil fuels. 17. Which of the following seed crops were first domesticated in Mexico? (274) A) Corn and millet. B) Yams and palm trees. C) Squash and beans. D) Sugarcane and taro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squash and beans. 18. Which of the following are ways to reduce runoff? A) Planting trees. B) Replacing impermeable pavement with permeable ones. C) Build up not out. D) All of choice s are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of choice s are correct. 19. Which of the following describes an example of creative destruction? (295) A) A farmer clears a forest in order to plant grain. B) A farmer plants an orchard next to a field where cattle graze. C) A farmer plants corn in a field where grain was previously grown. D) A developer plants native plants around a shopping center. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A farmer clears a forest in order to plant grain. 20. Which of the following crops is grown in the greatest quantity worldwide? (306) A) Cereal grains. B) Sugar cane. C) Rice. D) Soybeans. 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