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Crop Sci Midterm 1
100問 • 2年前
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  • 1

    proposed five centers of origin in 1924

    Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov

  • 2

    includes tropical India,Indochina, southern China, and the islands of southeastern Asia. This is the native land of rice,sugarcane, tropical fruit, and vegetables.

    Hindustani center

  • 3

    includes central and western China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. This is the native region for soybeans, millet, many vegetable crops,and fruits.

    East Asian center

  • 4

    includes original species of temperate fruit trees. Additional species of wheat and rye are also found here.

    Caucasian center

  • 5

    includes the Interior mountains of Asia Minor, Iran, Syria, Palestine,Trans-Jordania, Afghanistan, inner Asia, and northwestern India. The native crops include the origin of wheat, rye, and fruit trees.

    Inter-Asiatic center

  • 6

    produced teff, niger seed oil plant, a banana, and coffee. Probably about 4% of the world crops originated here

    Abyssinian center

  • 7

    Great ancient civilizations selected many vegetable and forage crops including olives and the carob tree. About 10% of the species of cultivated crops originated here.

    Mediterranean center

  • 8

    This land produced many tuber- bearing crops such as potatoes, quinine tree, and the coca bush.

    Andean center

  • 9

    includes southern North America, Mexico, and the west Indian Islands. Staple plants such as maize, cotton, beans, pumpkins, cocoa, avocados, and subtropical fruits originated here.

    Central American center

  • 10

    The first evidence of the use of wheat was found in?

    Israel

  • 11

    The first evidence of the use of wheat dated about?

    19,000 years ago

  • 12

    scientific name of wild tetraploid wheat

    Triticum dicoccoides

  • 13

    belongs to the genus Oryza and includes 20 wild species

    Rice

  • 14

    Rice belongs to what genus?

    Oryza

  • 15

    Unlike wheat and rice, it has separate male and female fowers on the same plant.

    Corn

  • 16

    proposed as corn's area of origin

    Mexico

  • 17

    Scientific name of Potato

    Solanum tuberosum

  • 18

    nowadays rank fourth in importance among food crops worldwide, after wheat, rice and maize.

    Potato

  • 19

    The place of origin of Potato

    Heart of South America

  • 20

    Any organism belonging to the kingdom Plantae, typically lacking of active locomotion or obvious nervous system or sensory organs and has photosynthetic ability.

    Plant

  • 21

    Systematically accumulated and tested knowledge

    Science

  • 22

    It is concerned with the observation and classification of economically cultivated crops

    Crop Science

  • 23

    Domesticated/cultivated plants grown for profit

    Crop

  • 24

    Deals with gardens and plants within an enclosure

    Horticulture

  • 25

    Deals with the principles and practices of managing field crops and soil

    Agronomy

  • 26

    Division of Horticulture

    Pomology , Olericulture, Floriculture , Nursery management , Landscape gardening

  • 27

    Its science is derived from the adoption or application of the basic sciences of chemistry, mathematics, physics, and from various applied sciences like physiology, meteorolgy, anatomy,plant breeding, etc.

    Crop Production as a Science, Art and Business

  • 28

    National Commodity Research Centers

    Fiber Industry Development Authority, National Tobacco Administartion, PHILIPPINE RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, PHILIPPINE COCONUT AUTHORITY, Sugar Regulatory Administration, Northern Philippines Rootcrops Research and Training Center, National Abaca Research Center

  • 29

    Specialized Discipline-Oriented Research Centers

    Postharvest Horticulture Training and Research Center, National Institutes of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH)

  • 30

    private Seed Companies

    East-West, Monsanto, Pioneer, Allied Botanical, Syngenta

  • 31

    The word agronomy has been derived from two Greek word

    Nomos - To manage , Agros - Field

  • 32

    is the science and practice of crop production to produce food, feed, fiber, and fuel.

    Agronomy

  • 33

    Basic Principles of Agronomy

    Planning, Choice of crop varieties, Proper field management, multiple cropping and also mixed or intercropping, Timely application of proper and balanced nutrients, Quality seed or seed material, Proper water management, Plant protection measures, Intercultural operations, Suitable method and time of harvesting, Suitable Postharvest technology

  • 34

    Classification of Agronomic Crops

    Cereal Crops, Oil Seed Crops, Pulse Crops, Forage Crops, Fiber Crops, Sugar Crops, Green Manuring Crops, Narcotic Crops, Beverage Crops

  • 35

    Crop plants or their products that are used for crops such as Tobacco

    Narcotic Crops

  • 36

    Crops that products are used for mild, agreeable and stimulating liquors meant for drinking such as tea, coffee, cocoa etc.

    Beverage Crops

  • 37

    Crops grown for the production of Sugar and starch; such as sugarcane, sugarbeet etc.

    Sugar Crops

  • 38

    are legumes or grasses that are incorporated into the soil while vegetative with the purpose of adding nutrients to the soil or enhancing soil quality.

    Green Manuring Crops

  • 39

    plants for clothing, rope, paper, and baskets.

    Fiber Crops

  • 40

    Legumes grown for their edible, high protein seeds are known as?

    Pulse Crops

  • 41

    are any crops whose vegetative parts-including stems, leaves, and sometimes attached seed or grain-are used for livestock feed.

    Forage Crops

  • 42

    Crops that seeds are rich in fatty acids, are used to extract vegetable oil to meet various requirement

    Oil Seed Crops

  • 43

    are grasses that produce edible grain

    Cereal Crops

  • 44

    The word cereal is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of grain

    Ceres

  • 45

    Some special purpose agronomic crops

    Catch crops, Cash Crops, Cover crops, Mulch Crops, Restorative crops, Exhaustive Crops

  • 46

    These are crops, which provide a good harvest along with enrichment or restoration or amelioration of their soil, such as legumes.

    Restorative crops

  • 47

    These are crop plants, which on growing leave the field exhausted because of a more aggressive nature such as Sesame

    Exhaustive Crops

  • 48

    Farmers use it to prevent soil erosion due to water or wind during periods when the soil is not protected by growing plant cover

    Cover crops

  • 49

    These crop plants are grown to conserve soil moisture from bare ground by their thick and multi-layered foliage

    Mulch Crops

  • 50

    These are crops cultivated to catch the forthcoming season

    Catch crops

  • 51

    These crop plants are grown for sale to earn hard cash

    Cash Crops

  • 52

    Garden is originated from the latin term meaning 'to enclose'

    Gyrdan

  • 53

    refers broadly to the technology of raising plants and animals

    Agriculture

  • 54

    Pomology is derived from two words

    Pomum - Fruit, Logos - Discourse or study

  • 55

    Olericulture is derived from two words

    Oleris - Pot herb, Cultura - Cultivate

  • 56

    Floriculture is derived from two words

    Florus - Flower, Cultura - Cultivate

  • 57

    It deals with the planning and execution of ornamental gardens, parks

    Landscape Gardening

  • 58

    it deals with the processing and preservation of produce of horticulture crops

    Postharvest technology

  • 59

    There have been several historic assertions and speculations that agriculture started about?

    10,000 years ago

  • 60

    is a land-based primary industry that directly depends on natural resources such as land, water, and a diversity of plants and animals to supply man's food and f ber needs

    Agriculture

  • 61

    Small bands of people roamed much of the world

    Hunter-gatherers

  • 62

    Small bands of hunter-gatherers roamed much of the world

    30,000-10,000 BC

  • 63

    The Neolithic Revolution is the first agricultural revolution - the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement

    10,000-8000 BC

  • 64

    is the first agricultural revolution

    Neolithic Revolution

  • 65

    was first used by University of Chicago archaeologist, James Henry Breasted in his "Ancient Records of Egypt" in 1906.

    Fertile Crescent

  • 66

    Animals domesticated during this period were sheep (Southwest Asia), pig, goat and cattle

    10,000-8000 BC

  • 67

    Agriculture and animal husbandry slowly developed in the Valley of Tigris and Euphrates, Asia Minor, Western India (Indus- Saraswati civilization), Egypt, Greece, Danubian area in Europe, Italy, southern France, Iberia, and Iran. Yajurveda was compiled during this period.

    8000-6000 BC

  • 68

    The Neolithic Revolution spreads. Animals that live in herds are amenable to domestication.

    8000-6000 BC

  • 69

    Rice, was domesticated in Southeast Asia around

    6500 BC

  • 70

    The chicken was domesticated in India and Southeast Asia and then was accepted around the world as a food item

    6000-4000 BC

  • 71

    Cow became an important component of mixed farming not only in India but also in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

    6000-4000 BC

  • 72

    The Neolithic Revolution continued to expand to newer regions of the world. New settlements, villages, towns, and cities were established. There were surpluses of grain

    6000-4000 BC

  • 73

    There is evidence of domestication of a large number of Share crops including peas, sesame, dates, cotton, sorghum, pearl millet, and many others

    4000-400 BC

  • 74

    The first moldboard plow was invented in ancient Near East and China around

    500 BC

  • 75

    Historians have accepted that the first light wooden plow was developed in ? around?

    Mesopotamia (Iraq) around 4000 BC

  • 76

    Fishing apparently became common in Egypt with river Nile having abundant fish

    400 BC 1000 AD

  • 77

    Draft horse and plow came into use, greatly increasing farmers' ability to cultivate larger fields

    The 11th Century

  • 78

    Farmers learned how to maintain soil fertility, but cereal yields reached a plateau

    The 11th Century

  • 79

    Food surpluses enabled peasants to more easily move to cities

    The 11th Century

  • 80

    Increased concentration and larger amounts of land under cultivation

    The 11th Century

  • 81

    Population increases exponentially, food supplies increase arithmetically = famine

    The 1700s

  • 82

    An important period

    The 1700s

  • 83

    First use of pesticides

    The 1900s

  • 84

    First use of Nitrogen fertilizers

    The 1900s

  • 85

    Period of profound change

    The 1800s

  • 86

    what period Agricultural technology has developed more rapidly than in all previous history.

    The 20th Century

  • 87

    Planned international effort to eliminate hunger by improving crop performance.

    The Green Revolution

  • 88

    What kind of crop was first domesticated in Southeast Asia

    Rice

  • 89

    Give the first four domesticated animals during the spread of Neolithic Revolution.

    Sheep, Goat, Cattle, Pig

  • 90

    physico-chemical process by which they use light energy to drive the synthesis of organic compounds

    Photosynthesis

  • 91

    live on organic compounds produced by other organisms

    Heterotrophs

  • 92

    produce organic molecules from CO2 and other inorganic raw materials obtained from the environment

    Autotrophs

  • 93

    to capture light energy from the sun and convert it to chemical energy stored in sugars and other organic molecules.

    Photosynthesis

  • 94

    Hetero means?

    Other

  • 95

    auto means?

    Self

  • 96

    trophos means?

    Feeder

  • 97

    is the initial energy source for most communities

    Sun/Light

  • 98

    The Sites of Photosynthesis in Plants

    Chloroplasts

  • 99

    Chloroplasts are found mainly in the cells of the?

    Mesophyll

  • 100

    the tissue in the interior of the leaf

    Mesophyll

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    問題一覧

  • 1

    proposed five centers of origin in 1924

    Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov

  • 2

    includes tropical India,Indochina, southern China, and the islands of southeastern Asia. This is the native land of rice,sugarcane, tropical fruit, and vegetables.

    Hindustani center

  • 3

    includes central and western China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. This is the native region for soybeans, millet, many vegetable crops,and fruits.

    East Asian center

  • 4

    includes original species of temperate fruit trees. Additional species of wheat and rye are also found here.

    Caucasian center

  • 5

    includes the Interior mountains of Asia Minor, Iran, Syria, Palestine,Trans-Jordania, Afghanistan, inner Asia, and northwestern India. The native crops include the origin of wheat, rye, and fruit trees.

    Inter-Asiatic center

  • 6

    produced teff, niger seed oil plant, a banana, and coffee. Probably about 4% of the world crops originated here

    Abyssinian center

  • 7

    Great ancient civilizations selected many vegetable and forage crops including olives and the carob tree. About 10% of the species of cultivated crops originated here.

    Mediterranean center

  • 8

    This land produced many tuber- bearing crops such as potatoes, quinine tree, and the coca bush.

    Andean center

  • 9

    includes southern North America, Mexico, and the west Indian Islands. Staple plants such as maize, cotton, beans, pumpkins, cocoa, avocados, and subtropical fruits originated here.

    Central American center

  • 10

    The first evidence of the use of wheat was found in?

    Israel

  • 11

    The first evidence of the use of wheat dated about?

    19,000 years ago

  • 12

    scientific name of wild tetraploid wheat

    Triticum dicoccoides

  • 13

    belongs to the genus Oryza and includes 20 wild species

    Rice

  • 14

    Rice belongs to what genus?

    Oryza

  • 15

    Unlike wheat and rice, it has separate male and female fowers on the same plant.

    Corn

  • 16

    proposed as corn's area of origin

    Mexico

  • 17

    Scientific name of Potato

    Solanum tuberosum

  • 18

    nowadays rank fourth in importance among food crops worldwide, after wheat, rice and maize.

    Potato

  • 19

    The place of origin of Potato

    Heart of South America

  • 20

    Any organism belonging to the kingdom Plantae, typically lacking of active locomotion or obvious nervous system or sensory organs and has photosynthetic ability.

    Plant

  • 21

    Systematically accumulated and tested knowledge

    Science

  • 22

    It is concerned with the observation and classification of economically cultivated crops

    Crop Science

  • 23

    Domesticated/cultivated plants grown for profit

    Crop

  • 24

    Deals with gardens and plants within an enclosure

    Horticulture

  • 25

    Deals with the principles and practices of managing field crops and soil

    Agronomy

  • 26

    Division of Horticulture

    Pomology , Olericulture, Floriculture , Nursery management , Landscape gardening

  • 27

    Its science is derived from the adoption or application of the basic sciences of chemistry, mathematics, physics, and from various applied sciences like physiology, meteorolgy, anatomy,plant breeding, etc.

    Crop Production as a Science, Art and Business

  • 28

    National Commodity Research Centers

    Fiber Industry Development Authority, National Tobacco Administartion, PHILIPPINE RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, PHILIPPINE COCONUT AUTHORITY, Sugar Regulatory Administration, Northern Philippines Rootcrops Research and Training Center, National Abaca Research Center

  • 29

    Specialized Discipline-Oriented Research Centers

    Postharvest Horticulture Training and Research Center, National Institutes of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH)

  • 30

    private Seed Companies

    East-West, Monsanto, Pioneer, Allied Botanical, Syngenta

  • 31

    The word agronomy has been derived from two Greek word

    Nomos - To manage , Agros - Field

  • 32

    is the science and practice of crop production to produce food, feed, fiber, and fuel.

    Agronomy

  • 33

    Basic Principles of Agronomy

    Planning, Choice of crop varieties, Proper field management, multiple cropping and also mixed or intercropping, Timely application of proper and balanced nutrients, Quality seed or seed material, Proper water management, Plant protection measures, Intercultural operations, Suitable method and time of harvesting, Suitable Postharvest technology

  • 34

    Classification of Agronomic Crops

    Cereal Crops, Oil Seed Crops, Pulse Crops, Forage Crops, Fiber Crops, Sugar Crops, Green Manuring Crops, Narcotic Crops, Beverage Crops

  • 35

    Crop plants or their products that are used for crops such as Tobacco

    Narcotic Crops

  • 36

    Crops that products are used for mild, agreeable and stimulating liquors meant for drinking such as tea, coffee, cocoa etc.

    Beverage Crops

  • 37

    Crops grown for the production of Sugar and starch; such as sugarcane, sugarbeet etc.

    Sugar Crops

  • 38

    are legumes or grasses that are incorporated into the soil while vegetative with the purpose of adding nutrients to the soil or enhancing soil quality.

    Green Manuring Crops

  • 39

    plants for clothing, rope, paper, and baskets.

    Fiber Crops

  • 40

    Legumes grown for their edible, high protein seeds are known as?

    Pulse Crops

  • 41

    are any crops whose vegetative parts-including stems, leaves, and sometimes attached seed or grain-are used for livestock feed.

    Forage Crops

  • 42

    Crops that seeds are rich in fatty acids, are used to extract vegetable oil to meet various requirement

    Oil Seed Crops

  • 43

    are grasses that produce edible grain

    Cereal Crops

  • 44

    The word cereal is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of grain

    Ceres

  • 45

    Some special purpose agronomic crops

    Catch crops, Cash Crops, Cover crops, Mulch Crops, Restorative crops, Exhaustive Crops

  • 46

    These are crops, which provide a good harvest along with enrichment or restoration or amelioration of their soil, such as legumes.

    Restorative crops

  • 47

    These are crop plants, which on growing leave the field exhausted because of a more aggressive nature such as Sesame

    Exhaustive Crops

  • 48

    Farmers use it to prevent soil erosion due to water or wind during periods when the soil is not protected by growing plant cover

    Cover crops

  • 49

    These crop plants are grown to conserve soil moisture from bare ground by their thick and multi-layered foliage

    Mulch Crops

  • 50

    These are crops cultivated to catch the forthcoming season

    Catch crops

  • 51

    These crop plants are grown for sale to earn hard cash

    Cash Crops

  • 52

    Garden is originated from the latin term meaning 'to enclose'

    Gyrdan

  • 53

    refers broadly to the technology of raising plants and animals

    Agriculture

  • 54

    Pomology is derived from two words

    Pomum - Fruit, Logos - Discourse or study

  • 55

    Olericulture is derived from two words

    Oleris - Pot herb, Cultura - Cultivate

  • 56

    Floriculture is derived from two words

    Florus - Flower, Cultura - Cultivate

  • 57

    It deals with the planning and execution of ornamental gardens, parks

    Landscape Gardening

  • 58

    it deals with the processing and preservation of produce of horticulture crops

    Postharvest technology

  • 59

    There have been several historic assertions and speculations that agriculture started about?

    10,000 years ago

  • 60

    is a land-based primary industry that directly depends on natural resources such as land, water, and a diversity of plants and animals to supply man's food and f ber needs

    Agriculture

  • 61

    Small bands of people roamed much of the world

    Hunter-gatherers

  • 62

    Small bands of hunter-gatherers roamed much of the world

    30,000-10,000 BC

  • 63

    The Neolithic Revolution is the first agricultural revolution - the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement

    10,000-8000 BC

  • 64

    is the first agricultural revolution

    Neolithic Revolution

  • 65

    was first used by University of Chicago archaeologist, James Henry Breasted in his "Ancient Records of Egypt" in 1906.

    Fertile Crescent

  • 66

    Animals domesticated during this period were sheep (Southwest Asia), pig, goat and cattle

    10,000-8000 BC

  • 67

    Agriculture and animal husbandry slowly developed in the Valley of Tigris and Euphrates, Asia Minor, Western India (Indus- Saraswati civilization), Egypt, Greece, Danubian area in Europe, Italy, southern France, Iberia, and Iran. Yajurveda was compiled during this period.

    8000-6000 BC

  • 68

    The Neolithic Revolution spreads. Animals that live in herds are amenable to domestication.

    8000-6000 BC

  • 69

    Rice, was domesticated in Southeast Asia around

    6500 BC

  • 70

    The chicken was domesticated in India and Southeast Asia and then was accepted around the world as a food item

    6000-4000 BC

  • 71

    Cow became an important component of mixed farming not only in India but also in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

    6000-4000 BC

  • 72

    The Neolithic Revolution continued to expand to newer regions of the world. New settlements, villages, towns, and cities were established. There were surpluses of grain

    6000-4000 BC

  • 73

    There is evidence of domestication of a large number of Share crops including peas, sesame, dates, cotton, sorghum, pearl millet, and many others

    4000-400 BC

  • 74

    The first moldboard plow was invented in ancient Near East and China around

    500 BC

  • 75

    Historians have accepted that the first light wooden plow was developed in ? around?

    Mesopotamia (Iraq) around 4000 BC

  • 76

    Fishing apparently became common in Egypt with river Nile having abundant fish

    400 BC 1000 AD

  • 77

    Draft horse and plow came into use, greatly increasing farmers' ability to cultivate larger fields

    The 11th Century

  • 78

    Farmers learned how to maintain soil fertility, but cereal yields reached a plateau

    The 11th Century

  • 79

    Food surpluses enabled peasants to more easily move to cities

    The 11th Century

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    Increased concentration and larger amounts of land under cultivation

    The 11th Century

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    Population increases exponentially, food supplies increase arithmetically = famine

    The 1700s

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    An important period

    The 1700s

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    First use of pesticides

    The 1900s

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    First use of Nitrogen fertilizers

    The 1900s

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    Period of profound change

    The 1800s

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    what period Agricultural technology has developed more rapidly than in all previous history.

    The 20th Century

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    Planned international effort to eliminate hunger by improving crop performance.

    The Green Revolution

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    What kind of crop was first domesticated in Southeast Asia

    Rice

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    Give the first four domesticated animals during the spread of Neolithic Revolution.

    Sheep, Goat, Cattle, Pig

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    physico-chemical process by which they use light energy to drive the synthesis of organic compounds

    Photosynthesis

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    live on organic compounds produced by other organisms

    Heterotrophs

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    produce organic molecules from CO2 and other inorganic raw materials obtained from the environment

    Autotrophs

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    to capture light energy from the sun and convert it to chemical energy stored in sugars and other organic molecules.

    Photosynthesis

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    Hetero means?

    Other

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    auto means?

    Self

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    trophos means?

    Feeder

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    is the initial energy source for most communities

    Sun/Light

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    The Sites of Photosynthesis in Plants

    Chloroplasts

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    Chloroplasts are found mainly in the cells of the?

    Mesophyll

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    the tissue in the interior of the leaf

    Mesophyll