How Do Plants Help People? Flashcards
The process used to select seeds, nutrients, and season to get the maximum production from a crop
crop production
The revolution in plant production that greatly increased crop yields
green revolution
The use of wheat as food can be traced to the area of
Middle East
Choose the three most fundamental necessities which plants provide for people.
shelter
clothing
food
Wheat appears to have originated from a wild species of
grass
History indicates that ancient man was intellectually primitive. T/F
False
It has been taught that the early population of the earth remained small because:
man was primitive
man was limited to hunting
man was limited to gathering wild foods
Evidence from archaeology shows, what are the two things that have a common common date of origin in history.
farming and civilization
Today’s most important food crop is
wheat
What were the two crops were specifically developed by agronomists to increase needed food supplies.
Sugar beets and triticale
The triticale supplement is made from _____ and _____.
wheat and rye
What primary genetic characteristic of wheat dramatically helped wheat production in India?
short stem
The years of drought in India that showed the need for change were
1965-1966
The man who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in helping feed the hungry was
Norman Borlaug
Peanuts, flax, sunflowers, safflower and cotton are all grown for their
oil
