Agriculture and the Green Revolution

A problem with the Green Revolution was

• Increased use of pesticides

• Increased use of fossil fuels

• Little success in Africa

• All of the above

Industrial/modern commercial agriculture refers to

• large scale agriculture using machines to produce large amounts of crops for sale

• large scale agriculture using machines to produce small crops for individual families

• small scale, intensive agriculture

• small scale, extensive agriculture

All of the following developments have INCREASED amount of crops produced in the last 100 years EXCEPT

• mechanization or new machines

• new technology (GMOs, chemical pesticides and fertilizers)

• the Green Revolution

• an increase in the number of farmers in the world

The Green/Third Agricultural Revolution refers to

• the invention of agriculture

• the application of new machines and industrialization to agriculture

• the application of science and new chemicals to agriculture (GMOs, fertilizers, pesticides)

• the diffusion of agriculture after the Spanish made contact with the Americas

What type of agriculture is:

clearing forests to plant fields for a few years and then abandoning them to move to repeat the process

• shifting cultivation

• ranching

• nomadic herding

• mixed crop and livestock

What has become more popular in response to using pesticides for farming?

• slash-and-burn

• crop rotation

• shifting cultivation

• organic farming

The Agricultural Revolution that contributed to fast-growing crops was known as

• GMO Revolution

• Seed Agricultural Revolution

• Green Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

Genetically modified organisms; use of engineering techniques to change the DNA of a seed.

• hybridization

• GMO

• cloning

• double cropping

Which of the following chemicals is used by farmers to protect their crops from pests?

• Pesticides

• Fertilisers

• Weedicides

• Artificial Manure

The root cause of food insecurity is

• poverty
• climate change
• corruption
• salinization of soil