AEST Ag Associates Certification Questions with
Correct Answers
What percentage of people in the United States are farmers? Correct
Answer-Less than 2
By the year 2025, the world population is projected to be? Correct
Answer-8 billion
The acronym USDA stands for the government agency known as?
Correct Answer-United States Department of Agriculture
What is the meaning of the Greek word bios? Correct Answer-life
The Greek word logy means? Correct Answer-study
Organic food is a term used for foods that have been grown? Correct
Answer-without use of chemical pesticides
The science involved in the cultivation, propagation, processing, and
marketing of items such as flowers and vegetables is known as? Correct
Answer-horticulture
On average, each farmer in the US produces enough food for about how
many people? Correct Answer-167
, Which of the following insects feeds on human waste and then on
human food, transmitting disease? Correct Answer-cockroach
Which pesticide was banned in 1972 because of its harmful effects on
the environment? Correct Answer-DDT
The use of what metal revolutionized agriculture? Correct Answer-iron
The insecticide DDT has been used to control mosquitoes that carry
what disease? Correct Answer-malaria
when a tree or other plant is not affected by the presence of a harmful
insect, it is described as being? Correct Answer-immune
Agriscience accounts for what percentage of jobs in America Correct
Answer-14
What percentage of careers in agriscience require college degrees?
Correct Answer-20
Agriculture processing, products, and distribution are those parts of the
industry that do what with the commodities? Correct Answer-haul,
grade, process, package, and market
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