agriculture quiz

• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:46

  Question 1
  
  In the 4th millennium B.C., the invention that marked the beginning of agricultural civilization was a device drawn by oxen. Name this device.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:47

  Question 2
  
  Which agricultural commodity must be imported to the continental United States?
  A. rice
  B. wheat
  C. sugar
  D. coffee
  E. lettuce
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:48

  Question 3
  
  This description from the year 1612 concerns what crop?
  
  "The money rolled in. Before long, Virginia
  settlers were growing the "stinking weed"
  on every patch of ground they could find,
  including the streets of Jamestown itself."
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:49

  Question 4
  
  What fuel can be produced by fermenting sugar cane, sawdust, corn, or wood chips?
  A. peat
  B. alcohol
  C. uranium
  D. kerosene
  E. hydrogen
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:49

  Question 5
  
  Whose work paved the way for improving crops through genetics?
  A. Louis Leakey
  B. Edwin Hubble
  C. Gregor Mendel
  D. Francis Beaufort
  E. J. Robert Oppenheimer
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:50

  U.S. Agriculture
  
  Question 6
  
  The greatest percentage of which state is occupied by cropland?
  A. Iowa
  B. Idaho
  C. Arizona
  D. Washington
  E. New Jersey
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:51

  Question 7
  
  Sugar can be commercially extracted from two different plants. One is sugar cane. The other is the sugar is...
  
  Hint: Starts with letter B
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:53

  Question 8
  
  Fallow cropland is ...
  A. irrigated
  B. highly acidic
  C. rich bottomland
  D. tilled but unseeded
  E. high in clay content
  
  Students who had at least secondary school education and can't answer this, please go bang the wall.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:55

  Question 9
  
  The African farmer produces most of what his family needs. This kind of farming is called ...
  A. communal
  B. marginal
  C. corporate
  D. cooperative
  E. subsistence
  
  The answers can be found in this particular Geography textbook:
  
  Our World: a closer look
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:56

  Question 10
  
  If they were all planted at the same time, which garden product would be first to ripen?
  A. corn
  B. chilies
  C. radishes
  D. pumpkins
  E. tomatoes
  
  Common sense. Don't know use google.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:57

  Question 11
  
  What is the modern name for the practice suggested in this passage from the first century A.D.?
  "The earth neither grows old nor wears out if it be dunged."
  
  Hint: Look at the word dunged. What does it reminds you? The answer is one word and starts with the letter F. Not a vulgar word.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:58

  Question 12
  
  What is the collective name for the fruit of such cereal grasses as sorghum, millet, rye, barley, oats, wheat, and rice?
  
  Students with at least primary school education and don't know the answer can bang the wall.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 11:59

  Question 13
  
  Which is not a forage crop?
  A. corn
  B. clover
  C. potato
  D. alfalfa
  E. bluegrass
• poon cho tang

  22 Dec 05, 11:59

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
  [b]Question 1
  
  In the 4th millennium B.C., the invention that marked the beginning of agricultural civilization was a device drawn by oxen. Name this device.[/b]

  plough?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 12:00

  Question 14
  
  A mixture of sand and clay that also contains humus is called ...
  A. loam
  B. caliche
  C. parent matter
  D. residual soil
  E. transported soil
  
  Read your Geography textbook for answer.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 12:01

  Originally posted by poon cho tang:

  plough?

  Correct
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 12:01

  Question 15
  
  What is the name for the soil conservation technique by which farmers plow sideways across hillsides instead of up and down the slopes?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 17:50

  Question 16
  
  What are the chemical elements of the primary nutritional elements in a complete fertilizer?
• Pitot

  22 Dec 05, 17:54

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
  [b]Question 15
  
  What is the name for the soil conservation technique by which farmers plow sideways across hillsides instead of up and down the slopes?[/b]

  terracing..
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 18:08

  Question 17
  
  The insect that devastated cotton crops in the South in the late 1890s was the ...
  A. caddis fly
  B. boll weevil
  C. sphinx moth
  D. Japanese beetle
  E. Mediterranean fruit fly
• yuko-ogura

  22 Dec 05, 18:10

  ans liao can get prize?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 18:11

  Question 18
  
  The growth of crop plants in a liquid medium is called ...
  A. hydroponics
  B. hydrostatics
  C. hydroscopics
  D. hydrophobics
  E. hydrotherapeutics
  
  Don't know can bang wall. This method of planting is also used in Singapore as well. Go find out.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  22 Dec 05, 18:12

  Originally posted by yuko-ogura:

  ans liao can get prize?

  Virtual prize. No real prizes.
• yuko-ogura

  22 Dec 05, 18:13

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Virtual prize. No real prizes.

  
  
  kkz..where can i find ya in RP?Pm mi leh..
• larrenV2.003

  22 Dec 05, 18:13

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
  [b]Question 4
  
  What fuel can be produced by fermenting sugar cane, sawdust, corn, or wood chips?
  A. peat
  B. alcohol
  C. uranium
  D. kerosene
  E. hydrogen[/b]

  Answer A and final