Livestock Production and the Environment Vocabulary Quiz

What is the process called that involves a series of processes which, in the absence of oxygen, break down biodegradable materials, such as manure?

• Conservation Tillage

• Anaerobic Digestion

• Enteric Fermentation

• Eutrophication

Conservation Tillage is a type of tillage system which allows the prior crop’s residue to remain on the land to counteract soil erosion and ____.

• runoff

• pollution

• hypoxia

• sequestration

Which process occurs in the digestive system of livestock?

• Enteric Fermentation

• Eutrophication

• Anaerobic Digestion

• Feed Conversion Efficiency

Eutrophication is the process in which a body of water is supplemented with nutrients which stimulates plant growth, resulting in a lack of oxygen and ____.

• aquatic life

• runoff

• soil quality

• sequestration

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What is the term for the feed intake-to-weight gain ratio and how animals turn feed into meat or other food products?

• Global Warming Potential

• Feed Conversion Efficiency

• Manure Management

• Soil Quality

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Global Warming Potential refers to the total contribution to global warming resulting from the emission of one unit of the gas relative to one unit of the reference gas, ____.

• methane

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

• nitrogen

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Which gas contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation?

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Greenhouse Gas

• Carbon Dioxide

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Hypoxia is a deficiency of oxygen in a ____ environment.

• aquatic

• biotic

• atmospheric

• terrestrial

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What is a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it with soil called?

• Landfill

• Sequestration

• Silvopasture

• Watershed

Manure Management involves how the manure is captured, stored, treated and ____.

• disposed

• recycled

• utilized

• managed

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