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Agriculture 100

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
An agricultural commodity is...
a)
a bill of materials that can be bought or sold.
b)
a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold. 
c)
an agricultural product that can be purchased
d)
a raw steak that can be made into sushi
2.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

John Deere

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Jimmy Carter

3.

What is a market?

a)

A place for buyers and sellers to make an exchange

b)

the grocery store

c)

target

d)

walmart

4.

What is a processing factory?

a)

a store

b)

a place that turns commodities into food or preserves them in cans and jars

c)

a place that makes food for consumers to eat

d)

a process place

5.

What is precipitation

a)

lake water

b)

water

c)

moisture that falls from the sky

d)

ocean currents

6.
Widespread malnutrition and starvation in an area due to food shortage
a)
Diet
b)
Famine
c)
Malnutrition
d)
Yield
7.
Disorder of nutrition resulting from improper balance of nutrients
a)
Diet
b)
Famine
c)
Malnutrition
d)
Yield
8.
Amount of crops produced per unit area
a)
Diet
b)
Famine
c)
Malnutrition
d)
Yield
9.
Refers to land that can be used to grow crops
a)
Desertification
b)
Domesticated
c)
Arable
d)
Overharvesting
10.
Process by which human activities or climate change make areas more desert-like
a)
Desertification
b)
Domesticated
c)
Arable
d)
Overharvesting
11.
Mixture of decomposing organic matter used as a fertilizer
a)
Domesticated
b)
Biological pest control
c)
Aquaculture
d)
Compost
12.
A poison used to destroy pests
a)
Biological Pest Control
b)
Pesticide
c)
Genetic Engineering
d)
Overharvesting
13.
Organisms that have been bred and managed for human use
a)
Livestock
b)
Domesticated
c)
Biological pest control
d)
Overharvesting
14.
Domesticated animals raised to be used on a farm or sold for profit
a)
Domesticated
b)
Diet
c)
Biological pest control
d)
Livestock
15.
Which of the following is NOT a major nutrient needed by humans?
a)
carbohydrates
b)
lipids/fats
c)
amino acids
d)
vitamins
16.
It is more efficient to raise livestock for food than to grow crops.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
What is land called that is suitable for farming?
a)
Growable
b)
Fallow
c)
Arable 
d)
Plantable
18.

Select all the Mayan agricultural inventions.

a)

Raised Fields

b)

Inventing Corn

c)

Growing different kinds of plants together

d)

Inventing milk

19.

How did the Maya connect corn to religion?

a)

They believed in a corn god & that people were created from corn

b)

They believed corn made you immortal

c)

They believed corn was evil

d)

They believed corn was only for kings and emperors

20.

What percent of Maya people farmed?

a)

10%

b)

100%

c)

90%

d)

50%

21.
All of the following are aspects of commercial agriculture EXCEPT
a)
a heavy reliance on machinery
b)
the product is consumed off the farm
c)
there is little relationship to other businesses
d)
a small percentage of the workforce is engaged directly in agriculture.