Agriculture ES Unit 2 Topic Breaker

It is the process of growing plants and raising animals for food, clothing, and other useful products.

• Agriculture

• Animal Science

• Agricultural Engineering

• Agricultural Science

A farmer alternates planting corn and cotton every other year in the same plot of land. This farmer is practicing

• subsistence agriculture

• commerical farming

• crop rotation

• slash-and-burn

Farming of clams and oysters are examples of

• polyculture

• aquaculture

• aeroponics

• subsistence agriculture

What is the term used when plant of the same kind are grown and cultivated at one place on a large scale?

• farming

• vegetable farming

• monocropping

• plant

True or False: 'Sustainable' means causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time.

• True

• False

What best describes the image?

• Monoculture

• Biodiversity

• The growing of multiple types of crop in one particular area

• Industrial agriculture

Which type of fishing has high rates of bycatch and highly destructive of benthic communities.

• Pole Fishing

• Long Line Fishing

• Purse Seining

• Trawling

Which definition most accurately defines Food Security?

• When all people, at all times, have access to a sufficient quantity of any foods available from the supermarket

• When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle

• When all people, at all times, have access to a variety of fast food chains and have money to purchase as much food from them as possible at any one time.

Food in the world is evenly distributed?

• True

• False

Find the correct word with its definition:

A kind of food is grown or farmed without the use of artificial chemicals

• Conventional food

• Organic food

• GM food

• GE food