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Chapter 11 Reading Check-In: 11.1 An
Ecological Perspective on Agriculture, 11.2 Can We Feed the World?, 11.3 What
We Grow on the Land
Record the answers to the following questions on a piece of looseleaf that will be submitted on
Tuesday.
Multiple Choice
1. Which of
the terms below refers to crops grown as food for domestic animals?
a) forage crops
b) subsistence crops
c) aquaculture
d) mariculture
e) agriculture
2. Which of
the following refers to lack of a specific chemical component of food?
a) malnourishment
b) famine
c) undernourishment
d) miasma
e) nonnourishment
3. What is
the relationship between farming and ecological succession?
a) farming keeps the land in a late successional
stage
b) farming abbreviates succession,
skipping the middle stage
c) farming promotes the premature change
to late successional stage
d) farming keeps the land in an early
successional stage
e) land succession is a process in natural
ecosystems, and crop land cannot be discussed in the same
terms
4. Which of
the following factors does not limit land available for agriculture?
a) slope
b) elevation
c) floodplain
d) river delta location
e) all of the above limit land available
for agriculture
5. Plowing,
the regular mixing of the top layer of the soil, is precisely like what natural
process?
a) glacial action
b) flooding
c) wind erosion
d) earthquakes
e) no natural process is much like plowing
6.
Agriculture in less developed countries can be significantly affected by all of
the following except:
a) social disruptions
b) droughts
c) loss of soil organic matter and
accumulation of chemical compounds
d) insect infestations
e) crop circles
7. Which of
the following is not a major agricultural crop?
a) wheat
b) potatoes
c) coconuts
d) manioc
e) all of the above are major agricultural
crops
8. In the United States:
a) 18%
of the land is used for growing crops
b) 57%
of the land is used for growing crops
c) 26%
of the land is used for growing crops
d) 44%
of the land is used for agricultural purposes
e) both
a and d
True or
False?
9. Pasture is a type of rangeland that has been
plowed and planted with a forage crop.
10. Rangeland is used for grazing cattle without
plowing and planting.
11. Feedlots are preferred areas for raising cattle
because it is much easier to control the waste material produced by the
animals, and they have minimal environmental effects.
12. Kwashiorkor is a type of malnutrition that
results from a lack of sufficient carbohydrates in the diet.
Short
Answer
13. List
two reasons why Africa remains the continent with the most acute food shortages
in the world.
14. What
is the major drawback of food aid programs to less developed countries?
15. What is monoculture, what are the drawbacks of
monoculture, and how can these drawbacks be counteracted?
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