Agriculture Terms Quiz - Animal Sci

Agriculture involves the production, processing, distribution, and marketing to consumers of food, fiber, fuels, and natural resources.

• True

• False

A ____________ is a plant, fungus, or algae that is grown and harvested for food, clothing, livestock feed, biofuel, medicine, or other uses.

• Fiber

• Textile

• Crop

• Farm

A companion animal is also known as a ______________.

• Livestock Animal
• Crop
• Mammal
• Pet

Livestock are usually farm animals that are kept, raised, used, and/or bought and sold by people.

• True
• False

A homogeneous RAW material or PRIMARY agricultural product that can be bought or sold is called a commodity.  Examples of a commodity include:

• grain, precious metals, oil, beef, and wheat.
• Bacon, corn chips, bread, gasoline, cheese
• pressed steal, fruit salad, natural gas
• ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and zombies. 

A complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply most of the food consumed by the world's population is the  ________________ industry.

• Food
• Fiber
• Fuel
• Farm

________________ is the science and business of producing domestic livestock species, including but not limited to beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, poultry, sheep, swine, and companion animals. 

• Pet science
• Crop science
• Animal science
• Livestock science

Plant science is also called ___________ and is the scientific study of plants.

• Botany
• Soil science
• Cropology
• Cultivation

_________is the study and use of living things, cells, and genetic components to invent, improve, and modify products and processes for a purpose or benefit to our world.

• Biotechnology

• Animal Science

• Biology

• Plant Science

Fish-farming is also known as _____________ and involves the breeding, raising, and/or harvesting of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food.

• Waterculture

• Aquaculture

• Fishculture

• Aquatic harvesting