Animals and Agriculture

Organisms that are bred and managed for human use.

• Domesticated

• Overharvesting

• Aquaculture

• Ruminants

Animal such as those listed in Table 3, that are raised to be used on a farm or ranch or to be sold for profit.

• Domesticated

• Livestock

• Ruminants

• Overharvesting

Which statement explains how overharvesting affects the supply of fish such as salmon.

• As we harvest more and more fish, the supply in the ocean goes down because the fish reproduce too much.

• As we harvest more and more fish, the supply in the ocean goes up because the fish reproduce at a faster rate than before we started fishing them.

• As we harvest more and more fish the supply of fish in the ocean goes down, because there is less fish to reproduce to produce more fish to regenerate the population.

• None of the choices

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Which of the following is a way that the government tries to prevent overharvesting?

• Create no fishing zones.

• Implementing free fish Fridays.

• Selling more commercial fishing licenses

• All of the choices

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What is aquaculture?

• A solution to overharvesting our ocean waters.

• Raising of aquatic organisms for human use or consumption.

• An ancient practice that originated 4,000 years ago in China.

• All of the choices.

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All of the following are environmental problems associated with aquaculture except:

• Increase amount of animal waste that can pollute waterways

• Depleting local water resources

• Damaging sensitive wetland ecosystems connected to aquaculture operations

• Decreasing the native populations of fish in our ocean waters.

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Humans have created hundreds of breeds of cattle that are suited for survival in different climates, but the cattle are not always slaughtered for meat. Cattle are used for all of the following except:

• Drinking milk and blood

• Using dung for heat source

• Used as draft animals to pull carts and plows

• Used for their fur to create threads and blankets

Since 1961, what type of livestock population has increases worldwide by a greater percentage than the population of any other livestock?

• Sheep

• Chickens

• Cattle

• Pigs

• Goats

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What is a ruminant?

• an aquatic organism raised for aquaculture

• a nasty type of rumor

• a type of fish used for bait

• None of the choices.

Why are ducks and geese economically important in China?

• They are raised food.

• The duck and geese droppings are used to fertilize rice paddies.

• The rice paddies are flooded. The water irrigates and fertilizes the mulberry tree, the food for silk worms.

• The rice paddies filled with duck and goose waste and plant material feed carp and other fish which are caught and consumed by humans.

• All of the choices

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