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)