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WorksheetsTest on Food and Agriculture
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which is an immediate factor for the current food crisis?
a)
Decrease in human population
b)
High grain reserves
c)
drought in areas with a high crop yield
d)
increase in grain production
2.
What may NOT lead to desertification of farmland?
a)
no-till farming
b)
over grazing cattle
c)
soil erosion
3.
A condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or variety of foods.
a)
Famine
b)
Malnutrition
c)
Diet
d)
Yield
4.
Which is not a reason for the inequality of resource use across the world?
a)
social reasons
b)
economic reasons
c)
political reasons
d)
religious reasons
5.
This is still widely debated among scientists.
a)
Meat production
b)
How to grow corn
c)
Malnutrition in the states
d)
Genetic Engineering
6.
The agricultural practice of growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species at one time.
a)
Uniculture
b)
Biculture
c)
Monoculture
d)
low input farming
7.
Using machines, irrigation sprinklers, and chemical fertilizers are all examples of
a)
Traditional farming
b)
Subsistence farming
c)
Modern farming
8.
This is NOT a source of famine around the world.
a)
War
b)
Natural Disaster
c)
New crop variety
d)
Crop failure by drought
9.
The raising of aquatic organisms for human use.
a)
marine aquaculture
b)
freshwater aquaculture
c)
Both
10.
Goats, pigs, cows, chickens, and sheep are all examples of what?
a)
Livestock
b)
Ruminants
11.
The upper layer of soils that contains organic material, rocks, water, and air.
a)
surface layer
b)
topsoil
c)
bottom soil
d)
topdirt
12.
Farmers who grow only enough for personal or local use.
a)
Sustainable farming
b)
Subsistence farming
c)
Monoculture
13.
Increases in crop yields during the green revolution resulted in part from
a)
biological pest control
b)
new crop varieties
c)
new pest resistant crops
d)
new fertilizers
14.
Which of the following is NOT a traditional farming practice?
a)
Manure as fertilizer
b)
Biological pest control
c)
Irrigation drip systems
d)
Irrigation ditches
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