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Quiz on AGRONOMY SUGAR, created by justabe1020 on 24/02/2015.
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Question 1

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What crop brought slavery to the Americas?
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  • sugarcane
  • cottom
  • bananas

Question 2

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The plantation economies of the New World were built on
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  • slave labor
  • sugarcane production

Question 3

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Of the enslaved people brought to the new world were used to produce ____________ the most labor-intensive crop
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  • sugar
  • coffee
  • tobacco
  • cotton

Question 4

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Most enslaved people were taken to _________________ to work as unpaid labor on sugar, coffee, cocoa and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines, in rice fields, or in houses to work as servants.
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  • North and South America
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • China

Question 5

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For thousands of years people have used the sap and juice extracted from plants to obtain sweet syrups. Examples include ____________________
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  • wild date palm, sugar palm, sorghum, and sugar maple
  • wild date palm, sugarcane, sorghum, and sugar maple

Question 6

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Today only two plant sources provide most of the natural sweeteners:
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  • sugar beet and sugar cane
  • sugar palm and sugar cane
  • sugar beet and sugar maple

Question 7

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_________________ is the home of a cultivated form of sugarcane
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  • New Guinea
  • North America
  • Singapore

Question 8

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Tropical products such as __________________ have had major impact on slavery and colonialism.
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  • sugar, tea, and bananas
  • sugar, sugar cane, and bananas
  • apples, oranges, and tea

Question 9

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noble canes
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  • Saccharum officinarum
  • Saccharum canofficianarum

Question 10

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Sugar cane had become the crop of choice in _______________________
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  • Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba (caribbean islands)
  • Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Belize (south america)

Question 11

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International trading companies moved goods—and people— across the Atlantic Ocean in a pattern known as the
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  • triangular trade
  • square trade

Question 12

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The slaves were shipped to the West Indies where they were sold. The profits bought ________________________ which were sent back to Europe
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  • sugar, coffee, cotton, and tobacco
  • sugar, coffee, cotton, and maple

Question 13

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England would sell slaves to the americas and bought
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  • rum and sugar
  • tobacco and sugar cane
  • cotton and tobacco

Question 14

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This is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane byproducts such as molasses, or directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation
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  • Rum
  • Alcohol
  • Brandy

Question 15

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The ______________________ was the acquisition in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France’s claim to the territory of Louisiana. It doubled the size of the United States.
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  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Louisiana Constitution

Question 16

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__________ is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in every fruit and vegetable
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  • Sugar
  • Cotton
  • Meat

Question 17

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Sugar occurs in greatest quantities in ___________________ from which it is separated for commercial use.
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  • sugarcane and sugar beets
  • sugar beets and sugar maple

Question 18

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Photosynthesis
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  • 6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
  • 6H2O + 6O2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
  • 6O2 + 6O2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
  • 6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6CO2

Question 19

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Fruit sugar is called
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  • fructose
  • lactose
  • maltose
  • glucose

Question 20

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milk sugar is called
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  • lactose
  • fructose
  • maltose
  • glucose

Question 21

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malt sugar is called
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  • maltose
  • lactose
  • fructose
  • glucose

Question 22

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sugar from honey or sweet fruits is called
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  • glucose
  • lactose
  • maltose
  • fructose

Question 23

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Sucrose:
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  • glucose
  • glucose + fructose
  • maltose + fructose
  • lactose + fructose

Question 24

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Top agricultural product:
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  • Sugar Cane
  • Wheat
  • Sugar Beet

Question 25

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A ton (2000 lbs.) of cane yields ____________ of raw sugar.
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  • 170 – 255 lbs.
  • 100 – 255 lbs.
  • 200 – 255 lbs.
  • 500 - 550 lbs.

Question 26

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_____________ is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane are crushed to extract their juice
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  • Bagasse
  • Molasses

Question 27

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___________ is a viscous by-product of the refining of sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar.
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  • Molasses
  • Bagasse

Question 28

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Top Sugarcane Producer
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  • India
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Brazil

Question 29

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Sugar Beet
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  • beta vulgaris
  • beta begaris

Question 30

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Top Sugar Beet Producers
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  • France
  • Germany
  • United States

Question 31

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40% of the sugar we consume is in _______________
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  • sugar beets
  • sugar canes
  • soft drinks

Question 32

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Stevia rebaudiana 
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  • sweet leaf
  • sweat tea
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