This place had sites of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gathered in the wild
Fertile Crescent
Furious Crescent
Nice Fertile Land
The first crops to be domesticated were all crops of edible seeds of mesopoamia
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
China domesticated
rice, millet and beans
rice, corn and beans
rice, potato and beans
rice, squash and beans
Africa domesticated
sorghum
sunflowers
squashes
Regions of the Americas independently domesticated
beans, squashes, potato and sunflowers
corn, squashes, beans and sunflowers
corn, squashes, potato and sunflowers
millet, squashes, potato and sunflowers
In the ancient Peruvian Andes, they domesticated
squash, seeds and cotton
squash, potato and sunflowers
The dawn of agriculture civilization may have come with the domestication of
figs
corn
wheat
cereals
Top agricultural product, by crop types?
milk
meat
fish
vegetables and melons
roots and tubers
Pulses are ______________ legumes harvested solely for the dry grain
annual
monthly
Pulses are important food crops due to their
high protein and essential amino acid content
low protein and essential amino acid content.
high protein and low amino acid content.
Pulses play a key role in crop rotation due to
their ability to fix nitrogen
them being annual legumes
them having high protein and essential amino acid
For pulses, biological nitrogen fixation occurs when atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia by an enzyme called
nitrogenase
nitrogen
nitroginase
What occurs on the roots of plants that associate with symbiotic nitrogen-fixing?
Root nodules
Root odules
Root modules
What crops are mainly grown for oil extraction?
soybeans and peanuts
lima beans and peanuts
chickpeas and peanuts
Old World to New World
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
New World to Old World
The three staples of Native American food are
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
For many American Native people the triad of Corn, Beans and Squash was called the
Three Sisters
Three Brothers
Foods That May Have Been on the Pilgrims Thanksgiving Menu :
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
Foods That Were Not on the Thanksgiving Menu
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
Once regarded as a medical panacea, ___________'s highly addictive chemicals have hooked hundreds of millions over the centuries
Tobacco
Potato
Coffee
Cacao
Corn
Sugarcane
Demand for this flavoring set in motion the great voyages of discovery
Black pepper
Rubber
Cotton
Its sweetness began a shameful trade in human beings and the plantation system of agriculture
A New World crop...maize took over the planet and is now an all-too- common ingredient in human and animal food products
Black Pepper
Its special properties forever changed the face of transportation, industry, and everyday life (even though synthetics are now in wide use)
Opium poppy
Native to both Asia and the Americas, its seedpods yield a fiber that has clothed the entire world
Benefit and bane derive from its flowers, source of both morphine and heroin
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.
Opium Poppy
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
Source of chocolate, from genus Theobroma, "food of the gods"--need we say more?
