Ag Quiz 15.2 Flashcards
Layer near the soil surface consisting of mineral and organic matter
A horizon
pH of less than 7.0
Acid
The mixing of air into water or soil to improve the oxygen supply of plants and other organisms
Aeration
A can with contents under pressure
Aerosal
Commercial firms that have developed with or stem from agriculture
Agribusiness
Business, employment or trade in agriculture, agribusiness, or renewable natural resources
Agricultural
Application of engineering principles in agricultural settings
Ag Engineering
Activities concerned with the production of plants and animals, and the related supplies, service, mechanics, products, processing, and marketing.
Agriculture
The application of scientific principles and new technologies to agriculte
Agriscience
Science and economics of managing land and field crops
Agronomy
pH of more than 7.0
Alkaline
organisms that complete part of their life cycle in water and part on land
Amphibians
The structure and arrangement of the various parts of the body of an animal or plant.
Anatomy
Wool from wool-producing rabbits or goats
Angora
Animal growth, care and management
Animal Science
A plant with a life cycle that is completed in one growing season
Annual
Substance used to help prevent or control infections and diseases of animals
Antibiotic
Raising of finfish, shellfish and other aquatic animals under controlled conditions.
Aquaculture
Water-bearing rock formation
Aquifer
the placing of sperm cells in contact with female reproductive cells by a method other than natural mating
AI artifical insemination
Another a business owns
Assets
Soil below the A horizon or topsoil and generally referred to as subsoil
B horizon
One celled, microscopic organisms
Bacteria
The daily supply of feed for an animal containing all of the needed nutrients in the proper proportions and amounts.
Balanced ration
Castrated male animal of the swine family
Barrow
The area below horizon consisting of large soil particles
Bedrock
Meat from cattle
Beef
Life or living
Bio
Basic science of the plant and animal kingdoms
Biology
Organism that lives in or on another organism with no benefit to the host
Parasite
Forages that are harvested by the livestock itself
Pasture
Organism that produces disease
Pathogen
Skin of an animal with the hair attached
Pelt
A plant that lives from year to year
Perennial
Any organism that adversely affects human activities
Pest
measurement of acidity or alkalinity from 1-14
pH
Physical appearance of an individual
Phenotype
process in which chlorophyll in green plants enables those plants to use light to manufacture sugar from carbon dioxide and water
Photosynthesis
Plant material that remains when a plant dies or is harvested
Plant residue
Transfer of pollen from another to stigma
Pollination
Meat from swine
Pork
Group name for domesticated birds
Poultry
Formation of rain and snow
Precipitation
An animal that feeds on a smaller or weaker animal
Predator
A herbicide applied after the weed or crop is present
Postemergence herbicide
bones joined together by cartilage and ligaments
Skeletal system
Top layer of the earth’s surface suitable for the growth of plant life
Soil
Female member of the swine family that has given birth
Sow
Egg-laying process of fish
Spawn
Male reproductive units
Sperm
The milk secreting glands of the animals
Udder
Synthetic source of nitrogen made from air, water and carbon
Urea
Building of organic matter on the soil and around turfgrass plants
Thatch
Soil that is workable with tools and equipment
Tillable
A young plant shoot that grows from the crown of a plant
Tiller
Food made by boiling and crushing soybeans and letting it coagulate into curds
Tofu
Male turkey
Tom
Desirable proportions of plant nutrients, chemicals, and living organisms located near the surface that support good plant growth.
Topsoil
source of power for belt-driven machines as well as for pulling
Tractor
A measurement of how poisonous a chemical is
Toxicity
