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APES: Ch 12 Food, Soil & Pest Mgmt

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following vitamin deficiencies results in blindness and death?

a)

Vitamin A

b)

Vitamin C

c)

Vitamin D

d)

biotin

2.

Famine is caused by each of the following except

a)

drought

b)

flooding

c)

oil spills

d)

war

3.

Each of the following systems produce most of the food we consume except

a)

croplands

b)

rangelands

c)

tundras

d)

aquaculture

4.

Which farming practice involves the removal of natural vegetation by cutting down and burning the land for cultivation?

a)

organic faming

b)

slash and burn agriculture

c)

aquaculture

d)

agroforestry

5.

Which of the following soil horizons contains loose, somewhat fragmented plant litter?

a)

O Horizon

b)

A Horizon

c)

B Horizon

d)

C Horizon

6.

The term eluviation refers to

a)

porosity

b)

leaching

c)

mineralization

d)

decomposition

7.

The unweathered rock layer refers to the

a)

A Horizon

b)

B Horizon

c)

C Horizon

d)

R Horizon

8.

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?

a)

Green Revolution

b)

Second Green Revolution

c)

Agribusiness

d)

Gene Revolution

9.

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

a)

polyculture

b)

monoculture

c)

polyaquaculture

d)

monoaquaculture

10.

Each of the following causes soil erosion except

a)

flooding

b)

composting

c)

windstorms

d)

deforestation

11.

Each of the following is a disadvantage of genetically modified crops and foods except

a)

lower nutrition

b)

new allergens in food

c)

higher yields

d)

less spoilage

12.

Which of the following is an advantage of implementing animal feedlots?

a)

higher profits

b)

greenhouse gas emissions

c)

pollution

d)

use of antibiotics will increase genetic resistance

13.

Each of the following is an example of a first generation pesticide except

a)

arsenic

b)

mercury

c)

lead

d)

DDT

14.

Modern synthetic pesticides have several disadvantages which include all of the following except

a)

they are safer and more effective

b)

they are expensive for farmers

c)

they may harm some forms of wildlife

d)

they may be hazardous to humans

15.

A science-based, common sense approach to controlling pest is called

a)

integrated pest management

b)

agrofrestry

c)

food security

d)

terracing

16.

Which of the following soil conservation methods is a practice of planting annual crops between rows of tress or woody plants?

a)

terracing

b)

contour planting

c)

strip cropping

d)

alley cropping

17.

Which of the following forms of organic fertilizer involves the wastes of plants?

a)

animal manure

b)

green manure

c)

compost

d)

in situ microorganisms

18.

Each of the following are active ingredients found in commericialized inorganic fertilizers except

a)

nitrogen

b)

phosphorous

c)

mercury

d)

potassium

19.

Desertification reduces each of the following except

a)

population growth

b)

overgrazing

c)

deforestation

d)

food chain energetics

20.

Strategies for more sustainable agriculture include all of the following except

a)

training programs

b)

subsidies and foreign aid

c)

research on organic agriculture with human nutrition in mind

d)

plowing of grasslands