Food and Agriculture

Which element accumulates in the environment due to use of fertilizers?

• oxygen
• hydrogen
• nitrogen
• carbon

Growing more than one crop in a field, especially in alternating rows. 

• Alley Cropping
• PolyCulture
• Interplanting
• Intercropping

A hectare (ha) is an area equal to a square that is 100 meters on each side. If the plot of land is 300 m x 300 m, how many hectares is the plot?

• 9
• 90
• 900
• 9000

Which type of agriculture is found primarily in developing countries?

• Plantation
• Truck farming
• Mediterranean
• Livestock ranching

The Third Agricultural Revolution is also known as 

• GMO Revolution
• Seed Agricultural Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

A major benefit to crop rotation would be

• Several different crops produced in the same year
• Nitrogen is put into the soil, which is needed for plants
• Requires less manual labor
• Farmers can replenish the soild and improve agricultural productivity

The result of overgrazing in semi-arid climates is

• environmental modification
• desertification
• aquaculture
• desalination

Farmers that produce food that they need to survive on a daily basis are called

• Commercial agriculture
• Industrial agriculture
• Slash-and-burn agriculture
• subsistence agriculture

This author helped change the pesticide policy in the United States.

• Rachel Carson
• Aldo Leopold
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Henry David Thoreau 

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Which crops provide more than half of the caloric human nutritional needs. 

• Rice, Barley
• Rice, Wheat
• Rice, Soybean
• Rice, Maize