WorksheetsAPES: Ch 12 Food, Soil & Pest Mgmt
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following vitamin deficiencies results in blindness and death?
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
biotin
Famine is caused by each of the following except
drought
flooding
oil spills
war
Each of the following systems produce most of the food we consume except
croplands
rangelands
tundras
aquaculture
Which farming practice involves the removal of natural vegetation by cutting down and burning the land for cultivation?
organic faming
slash and burn agriculture
aquaculture
agroforestry
Which of the following soil horizons contains loose, somewhat fragmented plant litter?
O Horizon
A Horizon
B Horizon
C Horizon
The term eluviation refers to
porosity
leaching
mineralization
decomposition
The unweathered rock layer refers to the
A Horizon
B Horizon
C Horizon
R Horizon
Which of the following refers to a transformative 20th-century agricultural project that utilized plant genetics, modern irrigation systems, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides to increase food production and reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries?
Green Revolution
Second Green Revolution
Agribusiness
Gene Revolution
The association of fish species of different food habits for the effective use of available fish foods in the pond, where wastes produced by one species may be inputs for other species refers to
polyculture
monoculture
polyaquaculture
monoaquaculture
Each of the following causes soil erosion except
flooding
composting
windstorms
deforestation
Each of the following is a disadvantage of genetically modified crops and foods except
lower nutrition
new allergens in food
higher yields
less spoilage
Which of the following is an advantage of implementing animal feedlots?
higher profits
greenhouse gas emissions
pollution
use of antibiotics will increase genetic resistance
Each of the following is an example of a first generation pesticide except
arsenic
mercury
lead
DDT
Modern synthetic pesticides have several disadvantages which include all of the following except
they are safer and more effective
they are expensive for farmers
they may harm some forms of wildlife
they may be hazardous to humans
A science-based, common sense approach to controlling pest is called
integrated pest management
agrofrestry
food security
terracing
Which of the following soil conservation methods is a practice of planting annual crops between rows of tress or woody plants?
terracing
contour planting
strip cropping
alley cropping
Which of the following forms of organic fertilizer involves the wastes of plants?
animal manure
green manure
compost
in situ microorganisms
Each of the following are active ingredients found in commericialized inorganic fertilizers except
nitrogen
phosphorous
mercury
potassium
Desertification reduces each of the following except
population growth
overgrazing
deforestation
food chain energetics
Strategies for more sustainable agriculture include all of the following except
training programs
subsidies and foreign aid
research on organic agriculture with human nutrition in mind
plowing of grasslands
