Fall 2023

ASCI 1000 Study Guide

Weeks 10 - 12 (Quiz 4)
Chapters 20, 29, and 23 and two sets of readings in Brightspace.

Week 10
What were the first livestock to be domesticated? (Sheep, goats, pigs)

 Sheep

What was the sheep industry known for during the US colonial period?

What is the sheep industry of the western United States known for today?

What are important products of the goat industry in the United States? Which type of goat
predominates in the United States?

What is the difference between range, farm, and feedlot production in the sheep industry?

Where is meat goat production commonly located, in general, across the country?

 Texas

Sheep cross-breeding systems frequently cross a black-faced breed with a white-faced breed. Give an
example of a meat (ram) breed, a wool (ewe) breed, and a dual-purpose breed. What kind of sheep is a
Katahdin?

Give an example of a meat breed, milk breed, and fiber breed of goat.

 Fiber products  angora goats (mohair), cashmere goats (cashmere)

 Milking goats
 Meat goats  boer

What does it mean to be a long-day or short-day breeder? Which category do sheep fall into? How
about goats?

👌don’t need to know specific breeds, just uses

Week 11
What makes agriculture (or any other business) sustainable?

What is a CAFO?

 Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

What is organic by definition?

What percent of US GHG emissions is contributed by animal agriculture?

 4-5%

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What are stock and flow gasses in relation to GHG? Give an example of each.

What is the most potent GHG produced by livestock operations?

 Carbon dioxide
 Methane
 Nitrous oxide (most potent)
 Fluorinated gases

How does efficiency of production relate to GHG emissions?

How have food animal industries improved their carbon footprint in the past 50 years? Give an example.

What are five examples of sustainable practices used in agriculture?

 Cover-cropping
 Crop-rotation

How do pets or companion animals differ from livestock?

How does being a pet or companion animal relate to whether or not an animal is of a domesticated
species? Can you give an example of a pet or companion animal who is not a domesticated species and
of an individual of a domesticated species which is not a companion animal?

What are the six categories of pets according to the text? How are they defined? Can you give an
example of each?

What is the general state of pet ownership in the US according to 2012 AVMA data?

How are cats and dogs distributed in households in the US – specifically, which species is the most
popular pet in terms of ownership rate vs which has a bigger total number of animals of that species
overall? Why is that? Which (dog or cat) has more regional differences in distribution in terms of the %
of households that have that species? (Focus more on big picture concepts than exact percentages.)

In what ways do pets or companion animals benefit humans? Be able to list at least 10 examples.

Week 12
What is a zoo? What makes it different from another facility such as a farm or museum?

What are three different zoo career options? What do they entail?

What are the five goals of zoos? How can they conflict with each other?

 Conservation
 Education
 Animal welfare
 Research
 Entertainment

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👍education and entertainment conflict

o Most people don’t go for education, but for primary goal of entertainment
 Ex. Day out w the kids
 For fun

What are the two different zoo conservation strategies? Briefly explain each one.

What are three ways zoo visitors can affect animals? What is a scenario where an animal may be
negatively affected by visitors?

What is an example of a zoo research project? How does it contribute to animal welfare?

How can automation and information improve care and well-being of animals in production
environments? What distinguishes technologies developed for each of these purposes? (What are their
essential differences?)

What is precision livestock farming? What are three examples? Section 2 includes examples.

What is the role of stockmanship? Section 1 provides some background. (Can you come up with a
gender neutral term for this concept? And, if you want to learn more, I highly recommend:
https://stockmanship.com/)

 Ensuring high standards of animal welfare

o Keeping facilities clean and organized
o 5 freedoms

See Table 1. What are five ways that precision livestock farming technologies could address welfare
indicators? (They are already doing many of these.)

What is the difference between collecting data and knowing what it means? (You will need to think
about this one. Section 4 is most relevant to this point.)

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