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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?

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Sire breed

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Wood from a Conifer tree?

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Soft

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The coarseness of fineness of soil?

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Soil texture

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A tool used for laying out lines and angles?

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A square

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A beef animal that weighs around 700-800 pounds that needs additional growth before entering a feedlot?

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A stocker

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The replacement of one type of plants for another in the natural progression of a forested area?

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Succession

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A relationship between two different types of organisms that is beneficial to both of them?

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Symbiotic relationship

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The end of a branch, stem, or root where growth takes place?

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Terminal tip

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32
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The position of a piston when it is at the top of its stroke?

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Top Dead Center (TDC)

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Farms that grow trees for commercial use?

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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

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Upland Cotton

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The edible part of an herbaceous plant?

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Vegetable

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An animal that eats other animals?

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Predator

37
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To take a young animal away from its mother when it is mature enough to eat on its own?

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Wean

38
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Official colors of FFA

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National Blue and Corn Gold

39
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Who wrote the FFA creed?

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E.M. Tiffany

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What is the most recognizable symbol of the FFA?

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FFA blue corduroy jacket

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Female animal of the cattle family that has not given birth?

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Heifer

42
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The capacity to be passed down from parent to offspring?

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Heritability

43
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The adult female chicken, duck, turkey and pheasant?

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Hen

44
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Plant kept for aroma, medicine or seasoning?

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Herb

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A plant that has a stem that does not turn woody and often lacks winter hardiness?

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Herbaceous

46
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Pairs of genes that are different?

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Heterozygous

47
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skin of an animal

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Hide

48
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place or box in which bees are kept

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Hive

49
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Swine older than 4 months

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Hog

50
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Pair of genes that are alike?

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Homozygous

51
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The science of producing, processing, and marketing fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants?

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Horticulture

52
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Moisture in the air

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Humidity

53
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Plant or animal offspring from crossing two different species or varieties?

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Hybrid

54
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The practice of growing plants without soil?

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Hydroponics

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Organic compound containing hydrogen and carbon?

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Hydrocarbon

56
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Seed sprouting or starting to grow?

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Germinate

57
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Organ of aquatic animal that absorbs oxygen from the water?

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Gills

58
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Soil deposited by ice?

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Glacial Deposit

59
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Young goose?

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Gosling

60
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Process in which many countries became self-sufficient in food production?

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Green Revolution

61
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Cells that surround the stoma?

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Guard Cells

62
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A soil amendment that is often used to reduce the alkalinity of ag soils?

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Gypsum

63
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Area or type of environment in which an organism or biological population normally lives?

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Habitat

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Forages that have been cut and dried to a low level or moisture, used for animal feed?

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Hay

65
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Material needed by the body to sustain life?

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Food

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Interdependence of plants or animals on each other for food?

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Food Chain

67
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Anything added to food before packaging?

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Food additive

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A material used to destroy fungi or protect plants against their attack?

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Fungicide

69
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A reproductive cell?

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Gamete

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Closely related and definable group of animals or plants comprising one or more species?

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Genus

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The genetic makeup of an individual or group of organisms?

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Genotype

72
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The process of removing and inserting genes in cells

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Gene splicing

73
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What does GMO stand for?

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Genetically Modified Organism

74
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Changing from a liquid to a vapor or gas

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Evaporation

75
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Amount and type of nutrients in the soil

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Fertiity

76
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Material that supplies nutrients for plants

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Fertilizer

77
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Embryo from the time of attachment to the uterine wall until birth?

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Fetus

78
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Reproductive part of the plant

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Flower

79
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Very small, flat worm that is a parasite?

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Fluke

80
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A person that shoes horses?

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Ferrier

81
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Giving birth in the swine family?

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Farrow

82
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Widespread starvation?

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Famine

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