WG Unit 4 Vocab Quiz

The shift to agriculture from hunting and gathering that changed humanity forever.

• American Revolution

• Neolithic Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Green Revolution

Using pest control strategies that are not harmful to natural systems, farmers, their neighbors, or consumers is an example of:

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Sustainable Agriculture

• Plantation Farming

• Deforestation

Which is not an example of the uses of biotechnology in agriculture?

• using machinery to harvest crops

• pest-resistant crops

• improving the size/color/smell of flowers

• genetically altering food to include vitamins to improve human health

The deliberate modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain.

• Aquaculture

• Crop rotation

• Factory Farming

• Agriculture

Natural resources, such as fossil fuels, that cannot be replaced naturally at a quick enough pace to keep up with consumption.

• Renewable resource

• Deforestation

• Non-renewable resource

• Subsistence farming

a large-scale industrial operation that houses thousands of animals raised for food—such as chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs.

• Factory Farming

• Desertification

• GMO

• Pastoral Nomadism

a type of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals.

• Neolithic Revolution

• Commercial Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Crop Rotation

the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest, such as agriculture.

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Plantation Farming

• Aquaculture

when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families, farm output is targeted to survival, and it results in little or no surplus.

• Commercial Agriculture

• Agricultural Revolution

• Sustainable Agriculture

• Subsistence Agriculture

The third agricultural revolution that spread worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s, significantly increasing the number of crops produced per acre of agriculture.

• Neolithic Revolution

• Green Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Subsistence Agriculture