Agricultural Ecosystems Quiz

What is the term used to describe agriculture ecosystems that are rooted in the knowledge of local environments, justice, and are often small-scale and ecologically diverse?

• Industrial agriculture

• Monoculture

• Polyculture

• Agroecology

What is the term for a complex form of intercropping, meaning multiple crops are grown at the same time on the same field?

• Monoculture

• Polyculture

• Aquaculture

• Subsistence agriculture

Which type of agriculture operates on a much larger scale and most of the food produced is meant for exporting around the country or world?

• Polyculture

• Small-scale agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture

• Industrial agriculture

What is the term for the process of buying up all the pieces of the supply chain, from owning the fields to controlling the packing and processing factories, in agriculture?

• Vertical integration

• Horizontal integration

• Market integration

• Supply chain integration

What is the term for a type of agriculture that is low-input and often has both rice and fish, making it a polyculture?

• Subsistence agriculture

• High-input agriculture

• Low-input agriculture

• Industrial agriculture

What is the term for a type of agriculture that requires a lot of commercially developed seeds or synthetic fertilizers and herbicides?

• Monoculture

• Polyculture

• High-input agriculture

• Low-input agriculture

What is the term for a type of agriculture that is rooted in the knowledge of local environments, justice, and is often small-scale and ecologically diverse?

• Agroecology

• Polyculture

• Industrial agriculture

• Monoculture

What is the term for a type of agriculture that is more likely to have a steady rotation of crops to harvest and better mirrors the complexity of the surrounding ecosystem?

• Monoculture

• Polyculture

• Aquaculture

• Subsistence agriculture

What is the term for a type of agriculture that is high-input and requires a lot of commercially developed seeds or synthetic fertilizers and herbicides?

• Polyculture

• Monoculture

• High-input agriculture

• Low-input agriculture

What is the term for a type of agriculture that is low-input and often has both rice and fish, making it a polyculture?

• Industrial agriculture

• High-input agriculture

• Low-input agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture