Ag Quiz 15.2

Question 1

Layer near the soil surface consisting of mineral and organic matter

Answer 1

A horizon

Question 2

pH of less than 7.0

Answer 2

Acid

Question 3

The mixing of air into water or soil to improve the oxygen supply of plants and other organisms

Answer 3

Aeration

Question 4

A can with contents under pressure

Answer 4

Aerosal

Question 5

Commercial firms that have developed with or stem from agriculture

Answer 5

Agribusiness

Question 6

Business, employment or trade in agriculture, agribusiness, or renewable natural resources

Answer 6

Agricultural

Question 7

Application of engineering principles in agricultural settings

Answer 7

Ag Engineering

Question 8

Activities concerned with the production of plants and animals, and the related supplies, service, mechanics, products, processing, and marketing.

Answer 8

Agriculture

Question 9

The application of scientific principles and new technologies to agriculte

Answer 9

Agriscience

Question 10

Science and economics of managing land and field crops

Answer 10

Agronomy

Question 11

pH of more than 7.0

Answer 11

Alkaline

Question 12

organisms that complete part of their life cycle in water and part on land

Answer 12

Amphibians

Question 13

The structure and arrangement of the various parts of the body of an animal or plant.

Answer 13

Anatomy

Question 14

Wool from wool-producing rabbits or goats

Answer 14

Angora

Question 15

Animal growth, care and management

Answer 15

Animal Science

Question 16

A plant with a life cycle that is completed in one growing season

Answer 16

Annual

Question 17

Substance used to help prevent or control infections and diseases of animals

Answer 17

Antibiotic

Question 18

Raising of finfish, shellfish and other aquatic animals under controlled conditions.

Answer 18

Aquaculture

Question 19

Water-bearing rock formation

Answer 19

Aquifer

Question 20

the placing of sperm cells in contact with female reproductive cells by a method other than natural mating

Answer 20

AI artifical insemination

Question 21

Another a business owns

Answer 21

Assets

Question 22

Soil below the A horizon or topsoil and generally referred to as subsoil

Answer 22

B horizon

Question 23

One celled, microscopic organisms

Answer 23

Bacteria

Question 24

The daily supply of feed for an animal containing all of the needed nutrients in the proper proportions and amounts.

Answer 24

Balanced ration

Question 25

Castrated male animal of the swine family

Answer 25

Barrow

Question 26

The area below horizon consisting of large soil particles

Answer 26

Bedrock

Question 27

Meat from cattle

Answer 27

Beef

Question 28

Life or living

Answer 28

Bio

Question 29

Basic science of the plant and animal kingdoms

Answer 29

Biology

Question 30

Organism that lives in or on another organism with no benefit to the host

Answer 30

Parasite

Question 31

Forages that are harvested by the livestock itself

Answer 31

Pasture

Question 32

Organism that produces disease

Answer 32

Pathogen

Question 33

Skin of an animal with the hair attached

Answer 33

Pelt

Question 34

A plant that lives from year to year

Answer 34

Perennial

Question 35

Any organism that adversely affects human activities

Answer 35

Pest

Question 36

measurement of acidity or alkalinity from 1-14

Answer 36

pH

Question 37

Physical appearance of an individual

Answer 37

Phenotype

Question 38

process in which chlorophyll in green plants enables those plants to use light to manufacture sugar from carbon dioxide and water

Answer 38

Photosynthesis

Question 39

Plant material that remains when a plant dies or is harvested

Answer 39

Plant residue

Question 40

Transfer of pollen from another to stigma

Answer 40

Pollination

Question 41

Meat from swine

Answer 41

Pork

Question 42

Group name for domesticated birds

Answer 42

Poultry

Question 43

Formation of rain and snow

Answer 43

Precipitation

Question 44

An animal that feeds on a smaller or weaker animal

Answer 44

Predator

Question 45

A herbicide applied after the weed or crop is present

Answer 45

Postemergence herbicide

Question 46

bones joined together by cartilage and ligaments

Answer 46

Skeletal system

Question 47

Top layer of the earth's surface suitable for the growth of plant life

Answer 47

Soil

Question 48

Female member of the swine family that has given birth

Answer 48

Sow

Question 49

Egg-laying process of fish

Answer 49

Spawn

Question 50

Male reproductive units

Answer 50

Sperm

Question 51

The milk secreting glands of the animals

Answer 51

Udder

Question 52

Synthetic source of nitrogen made from air, water and carbon

Answer 52

Urea

Question 53

Building of organic matter on the soil and around turfgrass plants

Answer 53

Thatch

Question 54

Soil that is workable with tools and equipment

Answer 54

Tillable

Question 55

A young plant shoot that grows from the crown of a plant

Answer 55

Tiller

Question 56

Food made by boiling and crushing soybeans and letting it coagulate into curds

Answer 56

Tofu

Question 57

Male turkey

Answer 57

Tom

Question 58

Desirable proportions of plant nutrients, chemicals, and living organisms located near the surface that support good plant growth.

Answer 58

Topsoil

Question 59

source of power for belt-driven machines as well as for pulling

Answer 59

Tractor

Question 60

A measurement of how poisonous a chemical is

Answer 60

Toxicity