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Ag Science Final Exam Study Guide

1. What is the difference between Agriculture and Agribusiness?


2. What is the approximate market value of crops and livestock produced annually in the United States?
3. What is the approximate amount U.S. consumers spend each year for food consumed both at home and
away from home?
4. _____ __________ colonization of America in the 1500s depended on horses.
5. At what point in history did farm machinery technology increase the demand for horses?
6. What type of horse provided power for mass transit systems in cities? What time in history was this?
7. Early in the history of coal mining __________ were used to work the mines.
8. Currently the equine industry contributes about $__________ billion annually to the national economy.
9. What is a horse's highest constant point?
10. Which part of a horse is the best place to observe if a horse is losing weight?
11. What is unsoundness?
12. What is an unsoundness or blemish of the head?
13. A wasting or atrophy of the shoulder muscle is called __________ .
14. What is another name for founder?
15. What is the best way to examine a horse for lameness?
16. To judge horses, they need to be viewed from the front, __________ and __________ .
17. When judging horses from one of the sides, how does drawing an imaginary perpendicular line from the
shoulder or hip help the judging process?
18. What term or phrase describes front legs placed too far forward?
19. What is pore space?
20. What is soil?
21. Agricultural vs. non-agricultural uses of soil
22. An ideal soils should have ______% water and _______% air.
23. What do earthworms, ants, crawfish, moles, and other organisms improve?
24. What do plants obtain from soil?
25. What is topography?
26. What has the greatest effect on the development of soil?
27. What is a vertical cross section of the soil?
28. What is the uppermost layer of soil consisting of a layer made up of partially decayed plant and animal
material.
29. What determines color of a soil?
30. What is the ease with which air and water may pass through the soil?
31. What basic textural class contains clay, silt, and sand?
32. Which type of soil occurs where formerly shallow ponds supported swap vegetation?
33. What are allied industries of the food industry?
34. How are ingredients listed on a product?
35. What is the relationship between food served on an airplane and food labeling?
36. What does HACCP stand for?
37. What are food additives?
38. What is the correct order of events for cleaning/sanitizing of food product contact surfaces?
39. What is the USDA?
40. What is the EPA?
41. What is the ATF?
42. What is the FDA?

43. How has the consumption of fruit changed over the last 20 years?
44. How has the consumption of red meat changed over the past 20 years?
45. Which is the most accurate way to describe the food industry?
46. What are the label requirements for products with insignificant amounts of all nutrients and food
components?
47. Which kind of fat is believed to be associated with coronary heart disease?
48. On how many calories are the %DV based?
49. What is the requirement for listing vitamins on food labels?
50. Why do super markets give away free samples?
51. One of the most important challenges to the United States food supply is the increasing number of new
food __________ .
52. What is the first item listed on a nutrition information label?
53. In the 19th century, farm exports of new crops provided the income that America needed to industrialize.
What crop was mentioned in particular in the lesson?
54. What region is frequently known as the Fertile Crescent?
55. What family of plants are the most important food plants?
56. What is the most significant oil plant?
57. How easily were tomatoes first accepted in Europe?
58. What plant produces the worlds most important fiber?
59. What was one of the main reasons for establishing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
60. What is the most common type of corn grown in the United States?
61. What are the male parts of a corn plant? The female parts?
62. You are harvesting 500 acres of corn for silage. Approximately how many corn plants will you be chopping?
(NUMBERS WILL CHANGE FOR ACTUAL TEST)
63. What is the most economically devastating pest that affects soybeans?
64. You are harvesting 500 acres of soybean. Approximately how many soybean plants will you be harvesting?
What would your estimate be of total soybean production? (NUMBERS WILL CHANGE FOR ACTUAL TEST)
65. What are the general types of soybeans?
66. How are sweet potatoes related to real potatoes?
67. What potato variety is the standard to which many of the new varieties are compared?
68. How are potatoes propagated?
69. How are most of the potatoes in the United States marketed?
70. If plant-available soil moisture is 3 inches, rainfall is 8 inch, and irrigation is 14 inches, estimate yield in
bushels per acre. (NUMBERS WILL CHANGE FOR ACTUAL TEST. On the test I will give you the formula for
this equation.)
71. How many pounds of seed will you need if you are planting 3,000 acres of wheat in 12-inch rows at 75
pounds per acre?
72. Assuming 90 percent of the seed germinates, how many wheat plants would there be in an average 3-foot
long section of a row? (NUMBERS WILL CHANGE FOR ACTUAL TEST. On the test I will give you the
reference table [Table 1 in notes] for this equation.))
73. What is the important protein extracted from wheat?
74. What is the most economically devastating pest that affects cotton?
75. A pound of cottonseed contains about 4,700 seeds. Assuming 95 percent germination, how many pounds
of cottonseed would you need to plant on 1500 acres to assure 40,000 plants per acre? (NUMBERS WILL
CHANGE FOR ACTUAL TEST)

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