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Agronomy (Crop Origins)

Question 1 of 30

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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

Select one of the following:

  • Fertile Crescent

  • Furious Crescent

  • Nice Fertile Land

Explanation

Question 2 of 30

1

The first crops to be domesticated were all crops of edible seeds of mesopoamia

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 3 of 30

1

China domesticated

Select one of the following:

  • rice, millet and beans

  • rice, corn and beans

  • rice, potato and beans

  • rice, squash and beans

Explanation

Question 4 of 30

1

Africa domesticated

Select one of the following:

  • sorghum

  • sunflowers

  • squashes

Explanation

Question 5 of 30

1

Regions of the Americas independently domesticated

Select one of the following:

  • beans, squashes, potato and sunflowers

  • corn, squashes, beans and sunflowers

  • corn, squashes, potato and sunflowers

  • millet, squashes, potato and sunflowers

Explanation

Question 6 of 30

1

In the ancient Peruvian Andes, they domesticated

Select one of the following:

  • squash, seeds and cotton

  • squash, potato and sunflowers

  • rice, millet and beans

Explanation

Question 7 of 30

1

The dawn of agriculture civilization may have come with the domestication of

Select one of the following:

  • figs

  • corn

  • wheat

  • cereals

Explanation

Question 8 of 30

1

Top agricultural product, by crop types?

Select one of the following:

  • cereals

  • milk

  • meat

  • fish

  • vegetables and melons

  • roots and tubers

Explanation

Question 9 of 30

1

Pulses are ______________ legumes harvested solely for the dry grain

Select one of the following:

  • annual

  • monthly

Explanation

Question 10 of 30

1

Pulses are important food crops due to their

Select one of the following:

  • high protein and essential amino acid content

  • low protein and essential amino acid content.

  • high protein and low amino acid content.

Explanation

Question 11 of 30

1

Pulses play a key role in crop rotation due to

Select one of the following:

  • their ability to fix nitrogen

  • them being annual legumes

  • them having high protein and essential amino acid

Explanation

Question 12 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • nitrogenase

  • nitrogen

  • nitroginase

Explanation

Question 13 of 30

1

What occurs on the roots of plants that associate with symbiotic nitrogen-fixing?

Select one of the following:

  • Root nodules

  • Root odules

  • Root modules

Explanation

Question 14 of 30

1

What crops are mainly grown for oil extraction?

Select one of the following:

  • soybeans and peanuts

  • lima beans and peanuts

  • chickpeas and peanuts

Explanation

Question 15 of 30

1

Old World to New World

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 16 of 30

1

New World to Old World

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 17 of 30

1

The three staples of Native American food are

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 18 of 30

1

For many American Native people the triad of Corn, Beans and Squash was called the

Select one of the following:

  • Three Sisters

  • Three Brothers

Explanation

Question 19 of 30

1

Foods That May Have Been on the Pilgrims Thanksgiving Menu :

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 20 of 30

1

Foods That Were Not on the Thanksgiving Menu

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 21 of 30

1

Once regarded as a medical panacea, ___________'s highly addictive chemicals have hooked hundreds of millions over the centuries

Select one of the following:

  • Tobacco

  • Potato

  • Coffee

  • Cacao

  • Corn

  • Sugarcane

Explanation

Question 22 of 30

1

Demand for this flavoring set in motion the great voyages of discovery

Select one of the following:

  • Black pepper

  • Sugarcane

  • Corn

  • Rubber

  • Cotton

Explanation

Question 23 of 30

1

Its sweetness began a shameful trade in human beings and the plantation system of agriculture

Select one of the following:

  • Sugarcane

  • Cacao

  • Tobacco

  • Corn

  • Rubber

  • Cotton

Explanation

Question 24 of 30

1

A New World crop...maize took over the planet and is now an all-too- common ingredient in human and animal food products

Select one of the following:

  • Corn

  • Rubber

  • Tobacco

  • Black Pepper

  • Cotton

Explanation

Question 25 of 30

1

Its special properties forever changed the face of transportation, industry, and everyday life (even though synthetics are now in wide use)

Select one of the following:

  • Rubber

  • Corn

  • Sugarcane

  • Opium poppy

  • Potato

  • Coffee

Explanation

Question 26 of 30

1

Native to both Asia and the Americas, its seedpods yield a fiber that has clothed the entire world

Select one of the following:

  • Cotton

  • Corn

  • Tobacco

  • Potato

  • Cacao

Explanation

Question 27 of 30

1

Benefit and bane derive from its flowers, source of both morphine and heroin

Select one of the following:

  • Opium poppy

  • Potato

  • Cotton

  • Black Pepper

  • Coffee

Explanation

Question 28 of 30

1

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.

Select one of the following:

  • Potato

  • Coffee

  • Opium Poppy

  • Corn

  • Rubber

Explanation

Question 29 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Coffee

  • Cacao

  • Tobacco

Explanation

Question 30 of 30

1

Source of chocolate, from genus Theobroma, "food of the gods"--need we say more?

Select one of the following:

  • Cacao

  • Coffee

  • Tobacco

  • Corn

Explanation

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