Name: ____________________________
Animal Science 3903 - Spring 1998
Test ID = 00001 -- Special Code = 000001
Topics: Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
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Preface
1. From the perspective of teaching programs, a course in international trade or perhaps crop production in the tropics could provide an element of "international dimension".
a. true b. false
2. Not identified in the text as a "globalizing influence".
a. cultural awareness b. language awareness c. animal awareness d. geographical awareness
e. political awareness
3. The purpose of an international dimension class is to offer students a broadened perspective of the world, perhaps helping us place ourselves in a larger context than we currently do.
a. true b. false
4. International dimension courses allow us to consider that there are other valid ways of doing things and of "being" in the world.
a. true b. false
5. It is important to give attention to both traditional and contemporary roles of animals in societies if we are to increase our perspectives and understandings.
a. true b. false
6. The various relationships of animal, plant and human life are easier to see when we just consider them from our own biased perspectives.
a. true b. false
7. We can better feed people by increasing human, plant, and animal relationships.
a. true b. false
8. Some roles of animals as they are used around the world provide incentive for farmers to increase food crop production.
a. true b. false
9. Animal agriculture is rarely if ever a means of reducing erosion.
a. true b. false
10. Feeding grains to animals causes large problems of malnutrition among the human population.
a. true b. false
11. One of the "saving graces" of the modern world is that animals have been excluded from any meaningful integration into the the culture of human societies.
a. true b. false
12. Agricultural animals are quite probably destined to become less important as a means of feeding the world's population.
a. true b. false
13. The kinds, numbers, distribution and use of agricultural animals around the world are largely determined by three of these. Pick the first to appear in the choices that isn't part of the Big 3. (Be careful. You must develop a hierachy in your head of the available answers in order to answer this).
a. socio-cultural factors b. animal adaptive ability c. economic factors d. region of the world e. physical environment
14. How much the environment is modified by man to meet the needs of domestic animals is directly related to the economic level of the people.
a. true b. false
15. Socio-cultural factors along with economic issues are interrelated and are the ones largely responsible for the wide variations in animal agriculture in various parts of the world.
a. true b. false
16. Agricultural animals have become integral parts of the economy and/or culture of human societies in general.
a. true b. false
17. In developed countries, agricultural animals are a more important part of the culture than they are of the economy.
a. true b. false
18. The higher the level of economic development of a society the less the role animals play in the culture of the society and the more their worth is apt to be measured in monetary terms.
a. true b. false
19. Every person on this planet depends on the land for his/her daily food whether or not he/she produces it his/herself.
a. true b. false
Chapter 1
20. All of man's occupations are tied to agriculture either directly or indirectly in both the developed and in developing countries.
a. true b. false
21. The urban-industrial complex in the U.S. exists independently from agriculture.
a. true b. false
22. The number of large farm animals in the world.
a. 4.1 billion b. 4,144,194,000 c. 4.1 million d. 4.1 trillion e. 400 billion
23. This continent has more camels on it than any other continent.
a. S. America b. Asia c. Africa d. Europe e. Oceania
24. This continent has more cattle on it than any other.
a. N. America b. S. America c. Europe d. Africa e. Asia
25. There are more of this agricultural animal in the world than any other.
a. goats b. sheep c. pigs d. camels e. cattle
26. Though we have not explored the reasons why yet, the number of agricultural animals has been remarkably stable for over 20 years.
a. true b. false
27. Has the most large farm animals (collectively).
a. developing world b. developed world
28. Produce the most product from their animals.
a. developing world b. developed world
29. On a world-wide basis, cultural needs are often the primary reasons for keeping animals.
a. true b. false
30. Food is a more important contribution of agricultural animals than the work provided by animals..
a. true b. false
31. Plants supply ______% of the total calories consumed in the world for the human population.
a. 54 b. 20 c. 16 d. 84 e. 10
32. The human populations of the poor countries of the world eat fewer daily calories than the human populations of the rich countries.
a. true b. false
33. In the US we consume approximately ___________ calories per person per day.
a. 2900 b. 2700 c. 3700 d. 1500 e. 2000
34. Animals are a more important source of calories to the world than they are of protein.
a. true b. false
35. Eggs are the largest single source of protein to humans from animals.
a. true b. false
36. In general, humans prefer plant-based foods over animal-based foods.
a. true b. false
37. One of the measures of the living standards of a country is the proportion of its food supply that consists of animal foods.
a. true b. false
38. Plant-derived foods (beans, broccoli, roots, nuts, etc.) are less likely than animal-based foods (meat, milk, etc.) to include the essential amino acids needed by humans.
a. true b. false
39. Most of the feed fed to animals in the world is food that humans could and should be eating.
a. true b. false
40. Animals convert inedible plant material to human food. In this way they greatly improve both the quality and quantity of human diets.
a. true b. false
41. The bulk of the land in the world is classified as agricultural. This amounts to about 3/4 of total land.
a. true b. false
42. Animals are becoming a less important part of the efforts to feed the world's population because they are so inefficient and because people have moral objections to using animal products.
a. true b. false
43. In developing countries animals compete with humans for food to such an extent that they should be removed from agriculture there.
a. true b. false
44. Developed countries have much more agricultural land than developing countries as a percent of total land.
a. true b. false
45. Ruminants are very important part of the agriculture of New Zealand because there is so much of their agricultural land in pasture.
a. true b. false
46. Ruminants are less important as a buffer for fluctuating grain supplies than other agricultural animals are.
a. true b. false
47. Monogastric animals can be competitors with the human for food if they are produced by the intensive confinement systems widely practiced in the developed countries.
a. true b. false
48. As long as there is garbage, pigs and chickens will continue to be agricultural animals.
a. true b. false
Chapter 2
49. The sum of the adjustments occurring in an organism that promotes its welfare and favors its survival.
a. acclimatization b. adaptation
50. Magnesium toxicity is an excellent example of a nutritional stress.
a. true b. false
51. The ability to adapt to a symbiotic relationship with humans and the stresses that association imposes is a key element of domestication.
a. true b. false
52. Climate exerts both direct and indirect stress on animals.
a. true b. false
53. Stresses between a cow and a sheep on the same pasture would be an example of ____________ stresses.
a. internal b. social c. geographical d. nutritional e. climactic
54. High altitudes impart __________ stress.
a. internal b. social c. geographical d. nutritional e. climatic
55. Artificial environments are created by man to make animals best serve him.
a. true b. false
56. Animals well adapted to the artificial environment of the developed countries are generally equally well adapted to the artificial environment imposed by the cultural and economic factors of the poorer nations of the world, but the reverse is not true.
a. true b. false
57. Learned.
a. behavioral responses b. physiological changes c. morphological changes d. anatomical changes e. none of these
58. One of the reasons that artificial environments vary from country to country is because the nature of the products or service demanded from the animals varies.
a. true b. false
Chapter 3
59. Amish agriculture has a profound effect on animal agriculture in the US.
a. true b. false
60. Amish agriculture classically illustrates the workings of:
a. developed agriculture b. cultural integration c. developing agriculture d. primitive agriculture e. none of the above
61. Buddhism has profound and far reaching effects on animal agriculture around the world but especially in China.
a. true b. false
62. All the cow manure in India is used in home fires for cooking.
a. true b. false
63. One of the major functions of the sacred cow of India is to eat straw.
a. true b. false
64. Cattle are usually associated with dense human populations and prime cultivable land.
a. true b. false
65. There is no chance that major segments of any religion will change their religious laws. Thus the religious taboos in place will probably stay in place.
a. true b. false
66. Developed countries with a communist government:
a. First World b. Second World c. Third World
67. Developing countries with a market economy.
a. First World b. Second World c. Third World.
68. A highly specialized agriculture is associated with:
a. a subsistence agriculture b. little mechanization c. a primitive agriculture
d. a scarcity of food and low nutritional level e. a developed agriculture
69. A relatively lower per capita income is usually found in association with a developed agriculture.
a. true b. false
70. Virtually all developing countries have a primitive agriculture.
a. true b. false
71. I am living in central Africa. Which of the following numbers most likely represents the percentage of the population engaged in agriculture?
a. 10 b. 20 c. 30 d. 50 e. 90
72. If I am living in Western Europe, which of the following numbers most likely represents the percent of the population engaged in agriculture?
a. 10 b. 20 c. 30 d. 50 e. 90
73. In this agricultural system each farm produces roughly what it consumes with a little surplus left over for sale or barter.
a. Developed Agriculture b. Developing Agriculture c. Subsistence Agriculture
d. Primitive Agriculture e. None of the Above
74. If I live in a developing country in South America, the agriculture is most probably.
a. Developed Agriculture b. Developing Agriculture c. Subsistence Agriculture
d. Primitive Agriculture e. None of the Above
75. In which of these would I expect the lowest literacy rate.
a. Developed Agriculture b. Developing Agriculture c. Subsistence Agriculture
d. Primitive Agriculture e. None of the Above
76. Major agriculture of North America.
a. Developed Agriculture b. Developing Agriculture c. Subsistence Agriculture
d. Primitive Agriculture e. None of the Above
77. The availability of consumer goods is a great stimulator to the agricultural sector to produce more.
a. true b. false
78. A major developmental issue in poor countries is that often people who have the power to improve education and other services are not willing to do so because of their own vested interests.
a. true b. false
79. The first step in improving the level of agricultural and economic development is to improve the educational level of the population.
a. true b. false
80. It appears to be impossible for a nation to reach a high level of agricultural development without also having a high level of industrial development.
a. true b. false
EXTRA QUESTIONS
View the attached figure representing worldwide distribution of major religions. The areas with the "squares" are dominated by ____________.
a. Christianity b. Buddhism c. Islam d. Shinto e. Hinduism
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