AG PREP Flashcards
What are layout tools?
Tools used to measure or mark wood, metal, or other materials; rulers, squares, levels, measuring tapes, chalk lines, etc
What percent of nitrogen is in the air?
78%
What is the number one safety hazard in agriculture?
Machinery
What does SMV mean?
Slow Moving Vehicle
How fast does a vehicle have to go to make it NOT a SMV
25 mph
Before discharging a fire extinguisher you should stand how many feet away from a fire?
5-10 feet
What 3 things that are needed to produce a fire?
Heat, Fuel, Oxygen
What does the color red mean in a shop?
DANGER!
Give an example of a hammer
Curved claw, dead-blow, rubber, sledgehammer
What are the stages of mitosis?
Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase
What Pesticide was banned in 1972?
DDT
What is the method for identifying pigs?
Ear Notching
What is a layer?
A chicken that lays eggs
What are 3 important characteristics of Brahman?
Heat, insect, and disease tolerance
What do you say in order to start a motion?
“I Move”
What is the FFA Salute
The Pledge of Allegiance
What does corn stand for in the FFA emblem?
Unity
What is the Universal Solvent?
Water
What are the 3 deficiency in corn?
-Phosphorous (red)
-Nitrogen (yellow, tips are orange)
-Potassium (yellow and red along all edges)
A buildup of heat at the Earth’s Surface caused by energy from sunlight becoming trapped in the atmosphere is called?
Greenhouse Effect
What percent of oxygen is in the air
21%
What are the types of propagation?
-Tissue Culture (trapped in container)
-Air Layering (bottle in nature)
-grafting (tapped tree with plant sticking out)
The 3 elements plants use from air and water?
Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
What speech requires little to no prep time?
Extemporaneous Public Speaking
What are the 3 basic sections of a speech?
introduction, body, conclusion
What was the first GMO crop?
flavr savr tomato
When particles are flying in the air what PPE do you wear?
Dust mask
Owning an animal and selling is what type of SAE project?
Entrepreneurship
What percent of US is farmers?
less than 2%
An animal with one stomach is called?
Monogastric
An animal with a 4 stomach compartment is called?
Ruminant
Water contains what two elements?
Hydrogen & oxygen
What is it called when you breath in oxygen and release carbon dioxide?
CELLULAR RESPIRATION
food travels by what type of transportation
refrigerated trucks
what tool is sued to separate the cotton seed from cotton?
cotton gin
what nutrient is low in s 10-5-20 fertilizer
phosphorous
what is NPK?
nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium
what is terracing
farming on a hill or mountain side
term of meat for mature sheep
mutton
how are tools classified
by their use
what plant Gregor Mendel use in his experiements
pea plants
what is the temperature danger zone for food?
41-135 F
what is the process in conducting meetings?
parliamentary procedure
what is a glit?
young female pig that has not had offspring
what is a sow
mature female pig that has had offspring
this machine revolutionized what industry
dairy industry- its a milking machine
what is the management of forests called?
forestry
what is the scientific method steps?
purpose
research
hypothesis
experiment
analysis
conclusion
what is another word for honesty?
integrity
how can you identify if eggs are cracked?
candling (holding a light under it)
a manufacturers name for pesticides
trade name
in an FFA meeting, who takes notes
the secretary
what tool is used to engrave signs into stone, wood?
chisel
what are the ffa colors?
National blue and corn gold
who is the father of genetics
Gregor Mendell
What is the best land capability
Class I
What is a castrated male bovine
steer
what allowed desert lands to cultivate crops
irrigation
how is lumber (wood) measured?
board foot
signs of spoilage of food?
smelly, sticky, mold growth
another name for dried forage
hay
what is the worst land capability class to grow plants in?
VIII
what is the most common issue in canned food?
Botulism
How are nails measured
By the penny
what is a drift
a major cause of soil and air contamination due to the movement of a pesticide through air to non target sites
what was the first genetically modified product available to the public
insulin
what corn is genetically modified
Bt corn
what GMO crop helps with vitamin a deficiency in children
golden rice
when water goes through a semi-permeable membrane
osmosis
what is a female rabbit called
doe
what is a newborn rabbit called?
kit
what does FIFO stand for?
first in first out= how we rotate food
What is a CDE
Career Development Event
What does SAE stand for?
Supervised Agricultural Experience
What are the categories for SAE?
Placement
Entrepreneurship
Exploratory
Research
Signal word for highly toxic pesticide
Danger-Poison
What good habit helps with good hand hygiene with food safety
Proper Hand Washing
Where should eggs be stored in the fridge?
In the original container on the Botton shelf in the fridge
what are the 3 components of an agricultural education program
Instruction
FFA
SAE
When an SAE is superior and a member wants to be recognized for their hard work they should apply for?
Proficiency Award
Lowest Grade of egg sold in stores?
Grade A
How many taps of gavel to start a meeting?
3 taps