Agriculture Quiz

Which layer of soil contains lots of roots and minerals for growing plants?

• Topsoil

• Subsoil

• Bedrock

• Parent Material

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True or False: The layers of soil go in this order: Topsoil, bedrock, subsoil.

• True

• False

Peter wants to grow some sweet peppers in his garden. He tests the pH of the soil and finds that the pH is very low. What can he do to increase the pH?

• Add Fertilizer

• Add Manure

• Add Limestone

• Water the soil

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True or False: A pH of 14 would be too basic for a plant to survive.

• True

• False

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Duncan went to buy some fertilizer for his lettuce crop. The shopkeeper told him that he should buy a fertilizer high in Nitrogen (N). Why did the shopkeeper recommend this?

• Lettuce is a leafy crop and leafy crops require more Nitrogen (N)

• Nitrogen (N) is important for flowering crop and lettuce is a flowering crop

• Nitrogen (N) is important for root development and lettuce is a root crop

• Nitrogen is the most important nutrient

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What is used by organic farmers to enrich the soil?

• Fertilizer

• Pesticides

• Antibiotics

• Manure from animals

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Who uses herbicides to stop the growth of weeds?

• Conventional Farmer

• Organic Farmer

Who pulls weeds by hand?

• Conventional Farmer

• Organic Farmer

Photosynthesis takes place inside the _____

• Chloroplast

• Mitochondria

• Parenchyma

• Mesophyll

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• Hampshire
• Duroc
• Chester White
• Landrace

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