Agriculture 100

An agricultural commodity is...

• a bill of materials that can be bought or sold.
• a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold. 
• an agricultural product that can be purchased
• a raw steak that can be made into sushi

Who invented the cotton gin?

• John Deere

• Eli Whitney

• Cyrus McCormick

• Jimmy Carter

What is a market?

• A place for buyers and sellers to make an exchange

• the grocery store

• target

• walmart

What is a processing factory?

• a store

• a place that turns commodities into food or preserves them in cans and jars

• a place that makes food for consumers to eat

• a process place

What is precipitation

• lake water

• water

• moisture that falls from the sky

• ocean currents

Widespread malnutrition and starvation in an area due to food shortage

• Diet
• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Yield

Disorder of nutrition resulting from improper balance of nutrients

• Diet
• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Yield

Amount of crops produced per unit area

• Diet
• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Yield

Refers to land that can be used to grow crops

• Desertification
• Domesticated
• Arable
• Overharvesting

Process by which human activities or climate change make areas more desert-like

• Desertification
• Domesticated
• Arable
• Overharvesting