Agronomy (Crop Origins)

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Quiz am Agronomy (Crop Origins), erstellt von justabe1020 am 03/02/2015.
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Frage 1

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This place had sites of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gathered in the wild
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  • Fertile Crescent
  • Furious Crescent
  • Nice Fertile Land

Frage 2

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The first crops to be domesticated were all crops of edible seeds of mesopoamia
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  • Wheat, barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas, bitter vetch, and flax
  • Wheat, barley, peas, lentils, potato, bitter vetch, and flax
  • Wheat, beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas, bitter vetch, and flax

Frage 3

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China domesticated
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  • rice, millet and beans
  • rice, corn and beans
  • rice, potato and beans
  • rice, squash and beans

Frage 4

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Africa domesticated
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  • sorghum
  • sunflowers
  • squashes

Frage 5

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Regions of the Americas independently domesticated
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  • beans, squashes, potato and sunflowers
  • corn, squashes, beans and sunflowers
  • corn, squashes, potato and sunflowers
  • millet, squashes, potato and sunflowers

Frage 6

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In the ancient Peruvian Andes, they domesticated
Antworten
  • squash, seeds and cotton
  • squash, potato and sunflowers
  • rice, millet and beans

Frage 7

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The dawn of agriculture civilization may have come with the domestication of
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  • figs
  • corn
  • wheat
  • cereals

Frage 8

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Top agricultural product, by crop types?
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  • cereals
  • milk
  • meat
  • fish
  • vegetables and melons
  • roots and tubers

Frage 9

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Pulses are ______________ legumes harvested solely for the dry grain
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  • annual
  • monthly

Frage 10

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Pulses are important food crops due to their
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  • high protein and essential amino acid content
  • low protein and essential amino acid content.
  • high protein and low amino acid content.

Frage 11

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Pulses play a key role in crop rotation due to
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  • their ability to fix nitrogen
  • them being annual legumes
  • them having high protein and essential amino acid

Frage 12

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For pulses, biological nitrogen fixation occurs when atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia by an enzyme called
Antworten
  • nitrogenase
  • nitrogen
  • nitroginase

Frage 13

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What occurs on the roots of plants that associate with symbiotic nitrogen-fixing?
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  • Root nodules
  • Root odules
  • Root modules

Frage 14

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What crops are mainly grown for oil extraction?
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  • soybeans and peanuts
  • lima beans and peanuts
  • chickpeas and peanuts

Frage 15

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Old World to New World
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  • horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, honey bees, wheat, Asian rice, okra peaches, pears, watermelon, bananas, olives, chickpeas
  • corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, beans, pumpkins, peanuts, cashews, blueberries, wild rice, squashes, sweet potatoes, quinine

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New World to Old World
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  • corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, beans, pumpkins, peanuts, cashews, blueberries, wild rice, squashes, sweet potatoes, quinine
  • horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, honey bees, wheat, Asian rice, okra peaches, pears, watermelon, bananas, olives, chickpeas

Frage 17

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The three staples of Native American food are
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  • corn, squash, and beans
  • corn, squash, and chocolate
  • corn, squash, and peanuts
  • chocolate, squash, and beans
  • corn, potatoes, and beans
  • wild rice. chocolate, and beans

Frage 18

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For many American Native people the triad of Corn, Beans and Squash was called the
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  • Three Sisters
  • Three Brothers

Frage 19

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Foods That May Have Been on the Pilgrims Thanksgiving Menu :
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  • seafood, wild fowl, meat, grain, vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs and seasonings
  • ham, potatoes, corn on the cob, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, chicken and egg and milk
  • seafood, wild fowl, pumpkin pie, grain, vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs and seasonings
  • corn, wild fowl, meat, grain, vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs and seasonings

Frage 20

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Foods That Were Not on the Thanksgiving Menu
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  • ham, potatoes, corn on the cob, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, chicken and egg and milk
  • seafood, wild fowl, meat, grain, vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs and seasonings
  • ham, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, nuts, pumpkin pie, chicken and egg and milk
  • ham, potatoes, corn on the cob, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, seafood, wild fow

Frage 21

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Once regarded as a medical panacea, ___________'s highly addictive chemicals have hooked hundreds of millions over the centuries
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  • Tobacco
  • Potato
  • Coffee
  • Cacao
  • Corn
  • Sugarcane

Frage 22

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Demand for this flavoring set in motion the great voyages of discovery
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  • Black pepper
  • Sugarcane
  • Corn
  • Rubber
  • Cotton

Frage 23

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Its sweetness began a shameful trade in human beings and the plantation system of agriculture
Antworten
  • Sugarcane
  • Cacao
  • Tobacco
  • Corn
  • Rubber
  • Cotton

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A New World crop...maize took over the planet and is now an all-too- common ingredient in human and animal food products
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  • Corn
  • Rubber
  • Tobacco
  • Black Pepper
  • Cotton

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Its special properties forever changed the face of transportation, industry, and everyday life (even though synthetics are now in wide use)
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  • Rubber
  • Corn
  • Sugarcane
  • Opium poppy
  • Potato
  • Coffee

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Native to both Asia and the Americas, its seedpods yield a fiber that has clothed the entire world
Antworten
  • Cotton
  • Corn
  • Tobacco
  • Potato
  • Cacao

Frage 27

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Benefit and bane derive from its flowers, source of both morphine and heroin
Antworten
  • Opium poppy
  • Potato
  • Cotton
  • Black Pepper
  • Coffee

Frage 28

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This versatile and nutritious food plant originated in the Americas but beguiled the Irish; widespread blight led to mass starvation and flight—and emigration to America.
Antworten
  • Potato
  • Coffee
  • Opium Poppy
  • Corn
  • Rubber

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yield a beverage long at the center of urban social life, from the London coffeehouses of the 18th century, to the Parisian cafés of the 20th, to the Starbucks craze of the 21st
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  • Coffee
  • Cacao
  • Tobacco

Frage 30

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Source of chocolate, from genus Theobroma, "food of the gods"--need we say more?
Antworten
  • Cacao
  • Coffee
  • Tobacco
  • Corn
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