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Midterm Examination

Agri 103
Introduction to Agriculture
Directions: Read the instruction carefully.

Test 1. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space before the
number.

1. Early human was?

a. Planters b. hunter and gatherers
b. c. breeders d. all of the above
2. Archaeologists have traced the origins of farming to around
a. thousands years ago d. Billion years ago
b. hundred years ago c. million years ago
3. The water buffalo was domesticated in India and became an important draft animal.
c. 3000 BC b. 3500 BC c. 8000 BC d. 9000. BC
4. The open-field system of planting was common in western Europe 6000 BC a. 600 AD
b. 700 AD c. 800 AD d. 10,000. BC
5. The evidence of iron plow in China
d. 500AD b. 400BC c. 600AD d. 400AD
6. Beginning of the Green Revolution
e. 1970 b. 1960 c. 1980 d. 1950
7. This time corn production in Mexico is widespread
f. 3,500BC b. 4000BC c. 6000AD d. 4,500AD
8. In England, Robert Bakewell pioneered the selective breeding of cattle and sheep to produce meatier
animals’
g. Late 1700s b. Late 1800s c. 1900 d. 1970
9. John Deere introduces steel plow
h. 1830 b. 1800 c. 1900 d. 1970
10. During the 20th century, a reaction developed to industrial agriculture known as__
i. Scientific agriculture c. white Revolution
j. b. Green Revolution d. sustainable agriculture
11. Filipino farmers practicing subsistence farming by kaingin during?
a. 14th t0 16th century b. 16th to 17th century
c. 18th century d. 20th century
12. Mechanization, the outstanding characteristic of late _________century agriculture
a. 19th and 20th b. 18th c. 17th d. 14th
13. Under_______, the Philippines is highly dependent on agriculture and lacks the fundamentals of a
modern industrial economy such as productive enterprises.

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a. US b. Europe c. Spain d. China

14. The Cagayan valley of northern Luzon contains ________as evidence for the hunters of big animals of
the time

a. large stone tools b. iron tools c. bronze tools d. all of the above

15. This trade was the main source of income for the colony during its early years. It brought silver from
New Spain, which was used to purchase Asian goods such as silk from China, spices from the Moluccas,
and Philippine cotton textiles

a. The Manila-Acapulco Galleon d. Europe trade

b. US trade c. Chinese Trade

16. Which of the following are basic needs of society?

a. food b. fiber c. shelter d. all of the above e. a and c
17. Quality of life means?
a. adequate food, clothing, and shelter
b. inadequate food, fiber and shelter
c. luxurious car, houses and appliances
18. Which of the following are incorrect?
a. grains, vegetables and meat for food
b. cotton, jute and wool for clothing
c. lumber, kenaf and small trees for shelter
19. What factors influence what people eat and use for clothing and shelter?
a. Climate, customs, and standard of living influence consumer choices
b. Food and fiber are produced to satisfy consumer needs
c. all of the above
20. It defined as the cultivation and exploitation of animals, plants (including fungi) and other forms of
organic life for human use including food, fiber, medicines, fuel and anything else.
a. Farming b. agriculture c. horticulture d. all of the above
Test 2. Matching type. Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter only on the space provided.
Column A Column B
1. Cattle were domesticated in a. John Deere
Greece
2. Developing countries b. 6500 BC
experienced the green
revolution
3. He introduces steel plow in c. 1950s-1960s
1837
4. Norfolk four course system d. 1939
Eliminated fallow year and
emphasized fodder crops
5. In Europe, villagers Farmed e. 10,000 BC
cooperatively, individually
working several strips of land
across a larger field, sharing
plows and other tools
6. beginning of the chemical f. AD 800

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fertilizer industry
7. Corn production in Mexico is g. 3500 BC
widespread
8. DDT was introduced h. 1920s
9. Haber-Bosch process allows i. 1840s
nitrogen fertilizers to be
produced synthetically
10. Dogs had been domesticated in j. Early 1700s
Europe
11. He introduced the seed drill to k. Jethro Tull
English farmers

Test 3. True or False. Write the Word TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is
wrong on the space provided before the number.
_____1. A major focus of organic agriculture is the maintenance of soil fertility
_____2. In conventional agriculture, most inorganic nutrients are added directly as synthetic fertilizer
_____3. Conventional agriculture are more expensive than organic agriculture
______4. Agricultural site capability refers to the ability of an ecosystem to sustain the productivity of
crops.
_____5. Groundwater and surface waters can become polluted by runoff containing fertilizer, pesticides, and
livestock sewage.
_____6. Deforestation and other conversions of natural habitat to agricultural use result in enormous
emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
____7. Agriculture makes its contribution to economic development by providing employment to a vast
army of uneducated, backward and unskilled labor alone.
____8. Agriculture define as science because it embraces knowledge of the way to perform the operations of
the farm in a skillful manner.
____9. Agriculture define as art because utilizes all technologies developed on scientific principles
____10. Agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining
crops and farmland.

Test 4. Enumeration. Enumerate the following. Write on the space provided

1. Give at least 4 roles of agriculture for the development of an economy

1.
2.
3.
4.
2. Give the 5 early agriculture society
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
3. Give at least 6 component of agriculture industry
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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6.
4. Give at least 3 main factors of change which require traditional agriculture to seek help from science
1.
2.
3.
5. Give at least 4 impact of agriculture in the environment
1.
2.
3.
4.

Test 5. Briefly explain the following. Write your answer on the separate paper.

1. What are the basic needs for humans, and what is meant by quality of life?
2. What role does modern agriculture play in basic human nutrition?
3. what is agriculture society?
4. Why agriculture consider as industry?
5. What is the relationship of science and agriculture?

God bless!

Prepared by:

VIMBEE A. ERESUELA
Name of Faculty and Signature
Instructor 1

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