Agriculture Sixth Form

Amount of crops produced per unit area

• Diet
• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Yield

Refers to land that can be used to grow crops

• Desertification
• Domesticated
• Arable
• Overharvesting

Practice that modifies the genome of living organisms for industrial use

• Domesticated
• Livestock
• Biological pest control
• Genetic engineering

Raising of aquatic plants or animals for human use

• Aquaculture
• Overharvesting
• Arable
• Famine

Which of the following is NOT a negative side effect of modern agricultural techniques versus traditional techniques?

• Increased use of fossil fuels
• Increased crop yields
• Increased use of fertilizers
• Increased use of pesticides

Agriculture is best defined as 

• the hunting and gathering
• the altering genetic material of plants
• the cultivation of plants/domesticating animals
• using technology to increase production

What type of farming is practiced to produce food for sale off the farm?

• Commercial
• subsistence
• seed
• vegetative

A poison used to destroy pests

• Biological Pest Control
• Pesticide
• Genetic Engineering
• Overharvesting

The root cause of food insecurity is

• poverty
• climate change
• corruption
• salinization of soil

Which of the following are harmful effects of agriculture?

• Algal blooms due to fertilizer runoff
• Climate change associated with methane emissions from livestock and rice paddies
• Pesticide residue in food, water, and air
• All of the above