ag quiz 15 Flashcards
A transportable resource product with commercial value; all resource products that are Articles of commerce
Commodity
A feed high in carbohydrates and low in fiber.
Concentrate
A person who buys goods or services from other people
Consumer
Established for the purpose of adding organic matter to the soil. They are usually planted in the winter after harvest?
Cover crop
A female bovine that has had a calf?
Cow
Operating systems where animals are confined in buildings or cages?
Confinement Operations.
The process of piling organic matter together so it will undergo chemical changes that make the matter useable for fertilizer?
Composting
Planting a different crop than was planted the last year?
Crop Rotation
Aquatic animals with a rigid outer covering, jointed appendages and gills.
Crustacean.
A flower that has been harvested by cutting it off with the stem attached.
Cut flower
Pertaining to products that are derived from milk. Also, a farm where cows are kept for milk production?
Dairy
The complete sequence of events that occurs within a combustion engine?
Cycle
Any plant that has been planted, tended harvested and improved?
Cultivated plant.
An animal with parents of a different breed?
Crossbred
Artificial cooling, either by the application of ice or utilizing the principle of the laten heat of evaporation?
Refrigeration
A substance derived from the stomachs of calves and used in the process of cheese making?
Rennet
The root zone, the area where microorganisms are most active in increasing the availability of nutrients for plants.
Rhizosphere
a cutting taken from a plant root for the purpose of growing a new plant?
Root cutting
A short tool used to measure lines?
Ruler
The process of moving the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an engine?
Scavenging
The embryo of a plant?
Seed
A substance that will kill some plants and have little to no effect on other plants?
Selective herbicide
Reproduction through the means of the uniting of gametes?
Sexual reproduction
A feed made from chopped and fermanted corn?
Silage
Breeds of animals that are used primarily as sires in a crossbreeding system?
Sire breed
Wood from a Conifer tree?
Soft
The coarseness of fineness of soil?
Soil texture
A tool used for laying out lines and angles?
A square
A beef animal that weighs around 700-800 pounds that needs additional growth before entering a feedlot?
A stocker
The replacement of one type of plants for another in the natural progression of a forested area?
Succession
A relationship between two different types of organisms that is beneficial to both of them?
Symbiotic relationship
The end of a branch, stem, or root where growth takes place?
Terminal tip
The position of a piston when it is at the top of its stroke?
Top Dead Center (TDC)
Farms that grow trees for commercial use?
Tree Farm
A tropical, woody herb grown as an annual for its fiber, the source of much of the commercial cotton in the US
Upland Cotton
The edible part of an herbaceous plant?
Vegetable
An animal that eats other animals?
Predator
To take a young animal away from its mother when it is mature enough to eat on its own?
Wean
Official colors of FFA
National Blue and Corn Gold
Who wrote the FFA creed?
E.M. Tiffany
What is the most recognizable symbol of the FFA?
FFA blue corduroy jacket
Female animal of the cattle family that has not given birth?
Heifer
The capacity to be passed down from parent to offspring?
Heritability
The adult female chicken, duck, turkey and pheasant?
Hen
Plant kept for aroma, medicine or seasoning?
Herb
A plant that has a stem that does not turn woody and often lacks winter hardiness?
Herbaceous
Pairs of genes that are different?
Heterozygous
skin of an animal
Hide
place or box in which bees are kept
Hive
Swine older than 4 months
Hog
Pair of genes that are alike?
Homozygous
The science of producing, processing, and marketing fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants?
Horticulture
Moisture in the air
Humidity
Plant or animal offspring from crossing two different species or varieties?
Hybrid
The practice of growing plants without soil?
Hydroponics
Organic compound containing hydrogen and carbon?
Hydrocarbon
Seed sprouting or starting to grow?
Germinate
Organ of aquatic animal that absorbs oxygen from the water?
Gills
Soil deposited by ice?
Glacial Deposit
Young goose?
Gosling
Process in which many countries became self-sufficient in food production?
Green Revolution
Cells that surround the stoma?
Guard Cells
A soil amendment that is often used to reduce the alkalinity of ag soils?
Gypsum
Area or type of environment in which an organism or biological population normally lives?
Habitat
Forages that have been cut and dried to a low level or moisture, used for animal feed?
Hay
Material needed by the body to sustain life?
Food
Interdependence of plants or animals on each other for food?
Food Chain
Anything added to food before packaging?
Food additive
A material used to destroy fungi or protect plants against their attack?
Fungicide
A reproductive cell?
Gamete
Closely related and definable group of animals or plants comprising one or more species?
Genus
The genetic makeup of an individual or group of organisms?
Genotype
The process of removing and inserting genes in cells
Gene splicing
What does GMO stand for?
Genetically Modified Organism
Changing from a liquid to a vapor or gas
Evaporation
Amount and type of nutrients in the soil
Fertiity
Material that supplies nutrients for plants
Fertilizer
Embryo from the time of attachment to the uterine wall until birth?
Fetus
Reproductive part of the plant
Flower
Very small, flat worm that is a parasite?
Fluke
A person that shoes horses?
Ferrier
Giving birth in the swine family?
Farrow
Widespread starvation?
Famine
