APES: Ch 12 Food, Soil & Pest Mgmt

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The term eluviation refers to

• porosity

• leaching

• mineralization

• decomposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The unweathered rock layer refers to the

• A Horizon

• B Horizon

• C Horizon

• R Horizon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

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

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Each of the following causes soil erosion except

• flooding

• composting

• windstorms

• deforestation