Test on Food and Agriculture

Which is an immediate factor for the current food crisis?

• Decrease in human population
• High grain reserves
• drought in areas with a high crop yield
• increase in grain production

What may NOT lead to desertification of farmland?

• no-till farming
• over grazing cattle
• soil erosion

A condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or variety of foods.

• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Diet
• Yield

Which is not a reason for the inequality of resource use across the world?

• social reasons
• economic reasons
• political reasons
• religious reasons

This is still widely debated among scientists.

• Meat production
• How to grow corn
• Malnutrition in the states
• Genetic Engineering

The agricultural practice of growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species at one time. 

• Uniculture
• Biculture
• Monoculture
• low input farming

Using machines, irrigation sprinklers, and chemical fertilizers are all examples of

• Traditional farming
• Subsistence farming
• Modern farming

This is NOT a source of famine around the world.

• War
• Natural Disaster
• New crop variety
• Crop failure by drought

The raising of aquatic organisms for human use.

• marine aquaculture
• freshwater aquaculture
• Both 

Goats, pigs, cows, chickens, and sheep are all examples of what?

• Livestock
• Ruminants