WorksheetsQUIZ 5.1 Intro to Agriculture
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
The world’s population began to grow about 8,000 years ago as a result of?
The mechanization of agriculture
Industrialization
The cultivation of crops
Migration
Medical advances
Technology essential for intensive subsistence agriculture is
the Green Revolution
advancements in pesticide research
biotechnology
precision agriculture techniques
irrigation
The goal of commercial agriculture is
Minimal food security
Profit maximization
Genetic diversity of seeds
Establishment of seed banks throughout the world
Sustainable farming practices
All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT
dairy farming
cattle ranching
grain farming
pastoral nomadism
specialized fruit production
Slash-and-Burn is an example of which agricultural practice?
subsistence farming
pastoral agriculture
sustainable farming
collective farming
plantation agriculture
Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called
shifting-field agriculture
sedentary cultivation
plantation farming
subsistence agriculture
hunting and gathering
The modern definition of agriculture includes
the deliberate domestication of plants and animals.
multiple hearths of origin.
vegetative and seed planting.
animal husbandry and shifting cultivation.
all of the answers are correct
Ester Boserup theorized that when population increased in a subsistence agriculturally-based community the level of technology and labor efforts must
decrease because more children need to finish their education.
decrease due to the high cost of machinery.
increase by sending students to technical schools.
increase by purchasing new machinery from More Developed Countries (MDCs).
increase to meet the demands of increased population pressures.
What type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?
pastoral nomadism
hunting and gathering
dairying
intensive subsistence
Not including Corn, what is a major crop grown in the US?
lamb and goats
wheat
fruit plantations
rice
Which of the following is NOT true of MDC's
low percentage of farmers in the labor force
heavy use of machinery because of Commercial farming
Amount of land dedicated to farming has decreased in the last century
most food produced on farms is consumed elsewhere
Which of the following is an Extraction industry?
Fishing
Hunting
Foraging
Oil
The economic activity portrayed in this illustration shows what kind of economic activity?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quarternary
The economic activity portrayed in this illustration shows what kind of economic activity?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quarternary
The economic activity portrayed in this illustration shows what kind of economic activity?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quarternary
