Agriculture Quiz

What is Agriculture?

• The science or practice of farming 
• It is a form of culture that is found in the Middle East
• It is only factories that mass produce food
• None of the above

What is Organic food?

• Food that is grown from GMO's, that uses little fertilizer
• Food that is produced by humans
• Food produced without synthetics 
• Food that only uses pesticides

What is a GMO?

• It is a form of agriculture
• It is a company that produces seeds for farmers
• An organism whose DNA has been altered by a lab 
• All of the above

In the movie Food Inc. we saw a couple Feedlots, what is a Feedlot?

• A part of the farm that has the food stored
• A place where cows go to graze
• A place where animals can eat in a human way
• A building/stockyard where livestock is fattened for market

What is a CAFO (confined animal feeding operation)?

• A place where animals eat food in the winter months
• An operation with more than 1,000 animals at a time
• A small Feedlot that has 0 to 1,000 animals
• None of the above

Historians believe that Pastoral Nomads are where in the evolutionary scale?

• At the bottom
• Right below Hunters and Gathers
• Same as Hunter and Gathers
• In between Hunters and Gathers and Sedentary people?

How long does it take for a clearing to be used for farming again after Slash and Burn ag?

• 1-3 years
• 4-15 years
• 6-20 years 
• 8-23 years

Pastoral Nomads randomly move around with their animals

• True
• False

True or False: Shifting Cultivation is practiced by about 250 million people across the world

• True
• False

Where does Shifting Cultivation (Slash and Burn agriculture) take place?

• Tropical climates with lots of rain
• Cold climates with lots of sun
• Tropical climates with little to no rainfall
• Climates with multiple seasons, but stay consistently warm