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Agronomy Exam 1 Review | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated 2024/2025
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Malthusian Theorem - a population projection that suggests the population will exceed
the available food supply because populations grow at geometric rates while food
supplies grow at arithmetic rates

How has food production kept up? - -Breeding
-GMO's
-Pesticides
-Mechanization
-Education of farmers

What are some future production concerns? - -Loss of arable land
-Deforestation
-Inadequate supply of fertilizer
-Low margin of return from farmer

What is agriculture? - Cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food,
fiber, biofuel, and other products used to sustain/improve life

What is science, what is art? - Science is what is known, art is how we react to the
unknown.

Uncontrollable in an ecosystem: - -Solar
-Temperature
-CO2
-Precipitation
-Atmospheric Environment

Controllable in an ecosystem: - -Crop Planted
-Soil Environment (nutrients, water, fertilizer)

Texas Commodities - -Cattle
-Corn
-Milk
-Wheat
-Eggs
-Broilers
-Cotton
-Greenhouses

What is ecology? - The relationship of living things to their environment and to each
other

, What is agroecology? - The study of specific relationships of crops and farm animals to
the environment and to each other

What is an agroecosystem? - The total interaction between crops, animals, and their
environment within a farming & ranching operation

What do management decisions affect? - All organisms in the ecosystem & the non
living portion of the system (fertilizer, tillage, irrigation, pesticides, animal stocking rates)

What does biotic mean? - living

What are some things that biotic things fight for? - The same resource (that is abiotic)
-Light
-Water
-Nutrients
-Space

What is a symbiotic relationship? - A relationship where both organisms benefit

What are some abiotic factors? - -Water
-Soil
-Sunlight
-Air
-Temperature
-Mineral Nutrients
-Organic Matter

An agroecosystem is managed by _______________________ in a way that
maximizes _____________________ or ______________________. - -A producer
(farmer)
-Production
-Profit

What is an open system? - Nutrients that are moved w/ commodity & must be replaced

What is a natural system? - Little influence by man, natural fluctuations.

What is a closed system? - A continuous cycle of life or death

Examples of Food Crops - -Fruit
-Vegetables
-Grain
-Oil

Examples of Forage Crops - -Hay

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