This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Overview > General > General Agriculture – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Agriculture Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of A) Expansion and hierarchical. B) Contagious and stimulus. C) Expansion and relocation. D) Migrant and hierarchical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expansion and relocation. 2. ..... is the production of plants and animals to meet the basic humans needs. A) Agriculture. B) Horticulture. C) Forestry. D) Food science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agriculture. 3. Which crop started the Third Agricultural Revolution A) Corn. B) Wheat. C) Rice. D) Sorghum. E) Manioc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rice. 4. Which of the following is NOT an agricultural hearth? A) Southwest Asia's Mesopotamia. B) East Asia's Yangtze River Valley. C) Latin America's Andean Mountains. D) Latin America's Mexico's highlands. E) Africa's South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Africa's South Africa. 5. Foods that are mostly products or organisms that have their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistant, increased productivity, or nutrients value. A) Altered Crops. B) Cash Cropping. C) Genetically Modified Organisms. D) Organic Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetically Modified Organisms. 6. ..... is the staple food of our country India. A) Maize. B) Rice. C) Sugar cane. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rice. 7. What is the primary difference between livestock ranching and livestock fattening? A) Livestock fattening requires more human labor than livestock ranching. B) Livestock ranching has more profit per head of cattle than livestock fattening. C) Livestock fattening requires less feed per head of cattle than livestock ranching. D) Livestock ranching requires more space than livestock fattening. E) Livestock ranching requires more capital investment for feed products. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Livestock ranching requires more space than livestock fattening. 8. Which of the following was NOT a commodity first raised in the Americas and traded to the Eastern Hemisphere during the Columbian Exchange? A) Beans. B) Wheat. C) Squash. D) Potatoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wheat. 9. The number of farms in the United States declined from about 6 million in 1940 to ..... in 1980. A) 2 million. B) 5.5 million. C) 10 million. D) 1 million. E) 20, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2 million. 10. Which one of the following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area? A) Shifting AgricultureB) Plantation AgricultureC) HorticultureD) Intensive Agriculture A) Shifting Agriculture. B) Plantation Agriculture. C) Horticulture. D) Intensive Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plantation Agriculture. 11. After maize, the most important crop in the U.S. mixed crop and livestock region is A) Wheat. B) Soybeans. C) Barley. D) Sugar beets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soybeans. 12. This generates a surplus for sale off the farm to food-processing companies.-to make money. A) Agriculture. B) Crop. C) Subsistence Agriculture. D) Commercial Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commercial Agriculture. 13. What is fallow soil? A) Soil that is left uncultivated so that it can rest and regenerate nutrients. B) Soil that has been depleted on nutrients. C) The process of desertification. D) Soil that has been cleared and fertilized by a process called shifting agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soil that is left uncultivated so that it can rest and regenerate nutrients. 14. Beef consumption is at the lowest level in which of the following regions? A) Italy. B) United States. C) Romania. D) China. E) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) India. 15. The loss of farmland in rapidly growing urban areas is caused by A) Urban sprawl. B) Soil erosion. C) Deforestation. D) Industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urban sprawl. 16. One Farmer feeds how many people? A) 155. B) 200. C) 60. D) 120. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 155. 17. Herders who seasonally move their animals between mountain pastures and lowland valleys practice A) Transhumance. B) Seasonal variation. C) Livestock ranching. D) Extensive subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transhumance. 18. In which region is Mediterranean agriculture found? A) Bible Belt. B) Corn Belt. C) Sub-Saharan Africa. D) California. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) California. 19. Growing only enough food to feed your family is an example of A) Vegetative planting. B) Market gardening. C) Extensivecommercial agriculture. D) Subsistence agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subsistence agriculture. 20. Assertion:Tea cultivation, is a labour-intensive industry.Reason:Cultivation can be done throughout the year. Tea bushes require warm and moist frost-free climate. A) If both assertion and reason are true ane reason is the correct explaination of assertion. B) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explaination of assertion. C) If assertion is true but reason is false. D) If both assertion and reason are false. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explaination of assertion. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesOverview QuizzesGeneral Agriculture Quiz 1General Agriculture Quiz 2General Agriculture Quiz 3General Agriculture Quiz 4General Agriculture Quiz 5General Agriculture Quiz 7General Agriculture Quiz 8General Agriculture Quiz 9General Agriculture Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books