This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Society > Human Agriculture – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Human Agriculture Quiz 1 (20 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) Commercial. B) Subsistence. C) Seed. D) Vegetative Planting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) China. C) Russia. D) Canada. 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) Hunting Gathering. B) Subsistence Farming. C) Commercial Farming. D) Sustainable Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sustainable Agriculture. 10. Subsistence agriculture is most common in which of the following regions? A) Great Plains of the United States. B) Pampas of Argintina. C) Amazon Basin. D) The Outback of Austrailia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amazon Basin. 11. The number of farmers per unit area of arable land. A) Arithmetic population density. B) Physiological population density. C) Old-age dependency ratio. 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) Survival. B) Towns. C) Elements. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) Cultivation. B) Domestication. C) Desertification. D) Genetic Modification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Domestication. 16. How many pounds are in a bushel of corn? A) 1 pound. B) 20 pounds. C) 56 pounds. D) 100 pounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 56 pounds. 17. According to the map of major world fishing regions, the Antarctic section of the Pacific Ocean annually contributes A) Less than 1 million tons of aquatic catch. B) 5 to 10 million tons of aquatic catch. C) 1 to 5 million tons of aquatic catch. D) More than 20 million tons of aquatic catch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) Pastoral nomadism. B) Livestock ranching. C) Manipulated migration. D) Transhumance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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. Next →Related QuizzesHuman Agriculture Quiz 2Human Agriculture Quiz 3Human Agriculture Quiz 4Human Agriculture Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books