Agricultural Practices QUIZ

Which is not a characteristic of shifting cultivation?

• Land is cleared by slashing the vegetation
• Debris is burned to provide the soil with nutrients
• A new site is designated every few years
• All of the above are characteristics 

Shifting cultivation is most commonly found in which climate region?

• Dry
• Humid low-latitude
• Warm mid-latitude
• Highlands

The largest proportion of farmers in Asia practice:

• hunting and gathering.
• intensive subsistence agriculture.
• pastoral nomadism.
• plantation agriculture.

Pastoral nomadism is most commonly found in which climate region?

• Humid low-latitude
• Dry
• Warm mid-latitude
• Polar

Intensive subsistence agriculture involves large amounts of effort used to produce maximum yield from a given plot of land.

• True
• False

In the U.S., many farms are integrated into a large food production industry. This is known as:

• commercial farming.
• agribusiness.
• food processing.
• mechanized farming.

What is the purpose of crop rotation?

• maintaining fresh products for market
• maintaining price supports from the government
• responding to shifting consumer preference
• maintaining the fertility of fields

After corn, the MOST important crop in the U.S. mixed crop and livestock region is:

• wheat.
• soybeans.
• barley.
• sugar beets.

Ranching is practiced in a climate region MOST similar to that of which other type of agriculture?

• dairying
• grain
• pastoral nomadism
• shifting cultivation

The different areas of the world where Mediterranean agriculture is predominant have similar:

• cultural beliefs.
• climate.
• social customs.
• levels of livestock production with the mixed crop and livestock regions.