Ch. 9 KI 1 DYRT Quiz

______________, found in developing countries, is the production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family.

• Commercial agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture

• Environmental agriculture

• Intensive pastoral agriculture

The domestication of the _________ is though to be around 12,000 years ago.

• dog

• cat

• pig

• goat

Rice is thought to have been domesticated in ____________.

• eastern India

• Latin America

• eastern Pakistan

• eastern China

The ______________ was the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.

• green revolution

• GMO revolution

• agricultural revolution

• 2nd agricultural revolution

____________ is considered the hearth for the potato.

• Mexico

• China

• Peru

• India

The most important contribution of the Americas to crop domestication was _____________.

• corn

• squash

• chickens

• sorghum

_______________, found in developed countries, is the production of food primarily for sale off the farm.

• Commercial agriculture

• The Green revolution

• Dietary Energy consumption

• Food Security

Why has the U.S. lost 3 million acres of land each year in the 21st century?

• Erosion

• Black rain

• Expansion of urban areas

• Subsistence farming

What does the word cultivate mean?

• " to stop from disappearing"

• " to love"

• "to make higher crop yields"

• "to care for"

There are more workers on farms in developed countries than developing countries. True or False

• True

• False