Agriculture

Farming and raising livestock for profit is called

• Subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

• Arable farming

• Pastoral farming

Growing crops and raising live stock to meet family needs is called

• Commercial farming

• Mixed farming

• Subsistence farming

• Nomadic farming

When only crops are grown, we refer to this as _______

• Arable farming

• Subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

• Pastoral farming

A structure built with plastic or glass wherein the conditions of farming are controlled is a ______

• urbanization

• greenhouse

• fertilizer

• no place like this exists

Raising livestock provides people with meat, egg, milk products and leather

• True

• False

All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT

• dairy farming

• pastoral nomadism

• cattle ranching

• specialized fruit production

• grain farming

A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing ---

• subsistence agriculture

• commercial farming

• crop rotation

• slash-and-burn agriculture

• shifting cultivation

Which of the following crops is grown on the sides of terraced hills to allow flowing water to run over the plants?

• Wheat

• Rice

• Taro

• Soybeans

• Millet

Slash-and-Burn is an example of which agricultural practice?

• sustainable farming

• pastoral agriculture

• collective farming

• subsistence farming

• plantation agriculture

Which of the following are physical inputs in the agricultural systems diagram?

• Relief

• Temperature

• Transport

• Labour