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A transportable resource product with commercial value; all resource products that are Articles of commerce

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Commodity

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A feed high in carbohydrates and low in fiber.

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Concentrate

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A person who buys goods or services from other people

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Consumer

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Established for the purpose of adding organic matter to the soil. They are usually planted in the winter after harvest?

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Cover crop

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A female bovine that has had a calf?

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Cow

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Operating systems where animals are confined in buildings or cages?

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Confinement Operations.

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The process of piling organic matter together so it will undergo chemical changes that make the matter useable for fertilizer?

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Composting

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Planting a different crop than was planted the last year?

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Crop Rotation

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Aquatic animals with a rigid outer covering, jointed appendages and gills.

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Crustacean.

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A flower that has been harvested by cutting it off with the stem attached.

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Cut flower

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Pertaining to products that are derived from milk. Also, a farm where cows are kept for milk production?

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Dairy

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The complete sequence of events that occurs within a combustion engine?

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Cycle

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Any plant that has been planted, tended harvested and improved?

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Cultivated plant.

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An animal with parents of a different breed?

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Crossbred

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Artificial cooling, either by the application of ice or utilizing the principle of the laten heat of evaporation?

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Refrigeration

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A substance derived from the stomachs of calves and used in the process of cheese making?

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Rennet

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The root zone, the area where microorganisms are most active in increasing the availability of nutrients for plants.

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Rhizosphere

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a cutting taken from a plant root for the purpose of growing a new plant?

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Root cutting

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A short tool used to measure lines?

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Ruler

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The process of moving the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an engine?

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Scavenging

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The embryo of a plant?

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Seed

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A substance that will kill some plants and have little to no effect on other plants?

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Selective herbicide

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Reproduction through the means of the uniting of gametes?

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Sexual reproduction

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A feed made from chopped and fermanted corn?

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Silage

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Breeds of animals that are used primarily as sires in a crossbreeding system?
Sire breed
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Wood from a Conifer tree?
Soft
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The coarseness of fineness of soil?
Soil texture
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A tool used for laying out lines and angles?
A square
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A beef animal that weighs around 700-800 pounds that needs additional growth before entering a feedlot?
A stocker
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The replacement of one type of plants for another in the natural progression of a forested area?
Succession
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A relationship between two different types of organisms that is beneficial to both of them?
Symbiotic relationship
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The end of a branch, stem, or root where growth takes place?
Terminal tip
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The position of a piston when it is at the top of its stroke?
Top Dead Center (TDC)
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Farms that grow trees for commercial use?
Tree Farm
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A tropical, woody herb grown as an annual for its fiber, the source of much of the commercial cotton in the US
Upland Cotton
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The edible part of an herbaceous plant?
Vegetable
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An animal that eats other animals?
Predator
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To take a young animal away from its mother when it is mature enough to eat on its own?
Wean
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Official colors of FFA
National Blue and Corn Gold
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Who wrote the FFA creed?
E.M. Tiffany
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What is the most recognizable symbol of the FFA?
FFA blue corduroy jacket
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Female animal of the cattle family that has not given birth?
Heifer
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The capacity to be passed down from parent to offspring?
Heritability
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The adult female chicken, duck, turkey and pheasant?
Hen
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Plant kept for aroma, medicine or seasoning?
Herb
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A plant that has a stem that does not turn woody and often lacks winter hardiness?
Herbaceous
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Pairs of genes that are different?
Heterozygous
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skin of an animal
Hide
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place or box in which bees are kept
Hive
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Swine older than 4 months
Hog
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Pair of genes that are alike?
Homozygous
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The science of producing, processing, and marketing fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants?
Horticulture
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Moisture in the air
Humidity
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Plant or animal offspring from crossing two different species or varieties?
Hybrid
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The practice of growing plants without soil?
Hydroponics
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Organic compound containing hydrogen and carbon?
Hydrocarbon
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Seed sprouting or starting to grow?
Germinate
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Organ of aquatic animal that absorbs oxygen from the water?
Gills
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Soil deposited by ice?
Glacial Deposit
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Young goose?
Gosling
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Process in which many countries became self-sufficient in food production?
Green Revolution
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Cells that surround the stoma?
Guard Cells
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A soil amendment that is often used to reduce the alkalinity of ag soils?
Gypsum
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Area or type of environment in which an organism or biological population normally lives?
Habitat
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Forages that have been cut and dried to a low level or moisture, used for animal feed?
Hay
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Material needed by the body to sustain life?
Food
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Interdependence of plants or animals on each other for food?
Food Chain
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Anything added to food before packaging?
Food additive
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A material used to destroy fungi or protect plants against their attack?
Fungicide
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A reproductive cell?
Gamete
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Closely related and definable group of animals or plants comprising one or more species?
Genus
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The genetic makeup of an individual or group of organisms?
Genotype
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The process of removing and inserting genes in cells
Gene splicing
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What does GMO stand for?
Genetically Modified Organism
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Changing from a liquid to a vapor or gas
Evaporation
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Amount and type of nutrients in the soil
Fertiity
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Material that supplies nutrients for plants
Fertilizer
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Embryo from the time of attachment to the uterine wall until birth?
Fetus
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Reproductive part of the plant
Flower
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Very small, flat worm that is a parasite?
Fluke
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A person that shoes horses?
Ferrier
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Giving birth in the swine family?
Farrow
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Widespread starvation?
Famine

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