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WorksheetsA Brief History of Corn
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Corn was first domesticated around 10,000 years ago in what region of the world?
Mesoamerica
Southwest America
South America
Europe
Africa
The earliest ancestor of corn is a grassy plant called?
Teosinte
Triticum
Hordeum
Aramanthaceae
Avena
How many hard kernels does the earliest ancestor of corn contain?
5-12
24-48
100-150
200-300
600-800
How many kernels can be found on an ear of corn today?
5-12
50-100
200-300
600-800
1,000-1,200
The planting of crops and the raising of cattle is known as?
Domestication
Hunting and Gathering
Transplanting
Herding
Industrialization
Settling in permanent areas, led to the idea of _____?
Personal Property
Capitalism
Industrialization
Democracy
Religion
What percentage of the Mayan diet was corn-based?
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
The Mayan creation legend believed that the Gods formed Mayans out of a dough made from corn and ______?
Blood
Wheat
Soil
Water
Mud
What region of present-day America is where corn agriculture began?
Southwest
Southeast
Northwest
North
Mid-America
Which famous explorer learned how to grow corn and eventually introduced it to Europe?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Samuel de Champlain
Hernan Cortez
James Cook
