PLSC 4383 Range Management
Test 1 2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Feral and managed stock - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔reproduced rapidly- significant
overgrazing in many regions
no regulation or control over land use
Rangeland - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Areas of the world that are not barren deserts,
farmed, or covered by bare soil, rock, ice, or concrete
,Rangelands include - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Deserts, forests, and natural
grasslands,
stands of introduced forages maintained without cultivation or annual
irrigation and are harvested by grazing animals
Rangeland further defined as - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Uncultivated land that will
provide the necessities of life for grazing and browsing animals
Grazing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The consumption of standing forages (grasses
and forbs) by livestock or wildlife
Browsing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The consumption of edible leaves and twigs
from woody plants (trees or shrubs)
Herbivory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The process of plant consumption by animals-
Essential process that characterizes rangelands
Main focus of a range manager - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Grazing and Browsing of
animals
Pasturelands have - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Periodic cultivation to maintain
introduced forages- Fertilization and/or irrigation annually to stimulate
forage growth and development
, Intensity of fencing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔once helped to distinguish pasture vs
range
varies - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Amount of rangeland in the world ____ from year to
year.
rangeland to cropland - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rangeland in Great Plains has
shifted from ____ to ____ several times due to price of beef and grain-not
all rangelands are suitable for cultivation
Most rangelands cannot support cultivation due to - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Low
precipitation
Thin soils
Rugged topography
Cold temperatures
Primary contribution to humans in developing countries - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Forage for livestock (develop livestock on forage rather than grain)
In US and other developed countries - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔food surpluses occur
and forage for livestock is not as necessary, so wildlife, water, and
recreation may have greater monetary value
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Test 1 2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Feral and managed stock - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔reproduced rapidly- significant
overgrazing in many regions
no regulation or control over land use
Rangeland - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Areas of the world that are not barren deserts,
farmed, or covered by bare soil, rock, ice, or concrete
,Rangelands include - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Deserts, forests, and natural
grasslands,
stands of introduced forages maintained without cultivation or annual
irrigation and are harvested by grazing animals
Rangeland further defined as - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Uncultivated land that will
provide the necessities of life for grazing and browsing animals
Grazing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The consumption of standing forages (grasses
and forbs) by livestock or wildlife
Browsing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The consumption of edible leaves and twigs
from woody plants (trees or shrubs)
Herbivory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The process of plant consumption by animals-
Essential process that characterizes rangelands
Main focus of a range manager - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Grazing and Browsing of
animals
Pasturelands have - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Periodic cultivation to maintain
introduced forages- Fertilization and/or irrigation annually to stimulate
forage growth and development
, Intensity of fencing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔once helped to distinguish pasture vs
range
varies - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Amount of rangeland in the world ____ from year to
year.
rangeland to cropland - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rangeland in Great Plains has
shifted from ____ to ____ several times due to price of beef and grain-not
all rangelands are suitable for cultivation
Most rangelands cannot support cultivation due to - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Low
precipitation
Thin soils
Rugged topography
Cold temperatures
Primary contribution to humans in developing countries - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Forage for livestock (develop livestock on forage rather than grain)
In US and other developed countries - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔food surpluses occur
and forage for livestock is not as necessary, so wildlife, water, and
recreation may have greater monetary value
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
3
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
