Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of agriculture?
the science or practice of farming
___________contributes to the success of plant and livestock breeding.
Genetics
How long ago did the process of domestication begin?
10,000 years ago
During which major historical agricultural period were silkworms and mulberry trees first raised?
Feudal period
(True or False)
Domestication involved humans providing additional food and protection to select wild animals?
True
The _____________ Act of 1862 encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
Homestead
Earliest tools were made of wood and ________.
stone
USDA 2012 Census of Agriculture reports the average size farm to be ________ acres.
418
Farmers began by noting which wild plants were _________.
edible
Cats, dogs and _________ were domesticated very early.
chickens
What group of people still practice like their relatives of the 1600’s?
Europeans from Kansas
Hopi from Northern Arizona
Spanish from Central Texas
Hopi from Northern Arizona
.
How many people lived on farms when America first started out?
75%
35%
50%
99%
99%
This president stated that America could be independent only if family farms stayed alive.
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
.
A farmer with a horse and plow and cultivate how many acers in a day?
4
7
10
2
2
As America started growing what did the government offer to colleges to improve agricultural research?
land grants
money
nothing
land grants
