AEST Ag Associates Practice Exam

The best term to describe the application of scientific principles and new technologies to agriculture is

• Agribusiness

• Renewable Natural Resources

• Farming

• Agriscience

The worlds population is expected to increase to 8 billion people by

• 2050

• 2025

• 2022

• 2034

Agriscience in the United States

• Accounts for 14% of the jobs

• Is likely to diminish in importance

• reduces our standards of living

• is being replaced by biotechnology

The person providing the foundation for scientific study of heredity was

• Gregor Johann Mendel

• George Washington Carver

• Joseph Glidden

• Thomas Jefferson

An Important contribution of biotechnology to waste management

• bacteria that consume oil

• disease resistant bacteria

• ice minus bacteria

• human bacteria

The number of workers in agriscience in the United States is approximately

• 21 Million

• 100 Million

• 100,000

• 400,000

The percentage of total jobs in agriscience that require a college education to enter the job is

• 10%

• 20%

• 41%

• 60%

A producers share of each dollar spent for bread and cereals in the United States is about

• 11 Cents

• 15.4 Cents

• 25 Cents

• 75 Cents

Which is not a major component of a comprehensive agriscience program?

• Classroom / Laboratory Instruction

• FFA

• Memorization and Recitation

• Supervised Agricultural Experience

What are the three main components of a speech?

• Introduction, body, conclusion

• introduction, conclusion, summary

• body, conclusion, summary

• Introduction, body, summary