AESC 2050 Final Kiepper Exam Questions And Answers

Culture is made up of: - ANS Rituals and language, Customs and beliefs, Clothing and food, Thoughts and values T/F: Agriculture concerns the production of food and non-food crops. - ANS True The human population of the earth recently passed the _____________ mark. - ANS 7 billion The TOP 3 cereal grains produced globally are: - ANS Corn, Rice, Wheat The % of income spent on food is directly correlated to the % of _____________ in countries across the globe. - ANS Malnutrition of children Which continent has a high population density, but low cereal grain production? - ANS Africa The video "The Science of Overpopulation" states that in the U.S., we use more water irrigating __________ than any other crop: - ANS Lawn Grass Refer to graph for 8 & 9 - ANS T/F: Culture plays a much more significant role in the difference between humans than Genetics. - ANS True In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote an essay warning of the dangers of: - ANS Overpopulation of the globe The biggest difference between the Upper 20% and Lower 20% of U.S. income earners in terms of average annual expenditures, is that the Upper 20% are able to spend significantly more of their income on: - ANS Personal insurance and pensions The Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 pitted Spanish Conquistadors against the ____________ . - ANS Incas About ___________ years ago, Humans began ____________ which scientists believe was the first conscious cultural act. - ANS 2 million / tool making The separation between "Prehistory" and "History" occurred about ___________ years ago, with the _________________. - ANS 5,000 / invention of writing Instead of just using Biological Evolution to adjust to their environment, early human also developed through _____________________, using intellectual and social skills. - ANS Cultural adaptation The MOST devastating item brought by Europeans to the New World was/were... - ANS Disease Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of early emerging hominids: - ANS Male dominated small families Most scientists believe that agriculture started in what is known as the "Fertile Crescent", which is located in (the) modern... - ANS Middle East Early hominid males most often took on the dangerous tasks of hunting and defense because... - ANS they were expendable Homo Sapiens Sapiens can be translated to: - ANS "Wise Humans" Many scientists believe that the reason agriculture developed independently in many places around the globe was that it happened around the same time as... - ANS the end of the last Ice Age Advantages of the emerging Farming Lifestyle over the Nomadic Lifestyle DID NOT include: - ANS less work The "Thrifty Gene" Hypothesis, in which humans biologically adapt to retain fat has become a health disadvantage for __________ living in the U.S. - ANS Pimas The Land-Grant College Act of 1862 is also known as the: - ANS Morrill Act Which of the following has stayed relatively stable over the last 100 years in U.S. agriculture: - ANS Total number of acres farmed One (1) HECTARE is roughly equal to _____ acres. - ANS 2.5 An ACRE is roughly the size of a: - ANS (American) Football Field For U.S. Government tax purposes: A farm is any establishment which produced and sold, or normally would have produced and sold, ________ or more of agricultural products during the year. - ANS $1,000 The biggest difference between the United Nations' and U.S. Department of Agriculture's definition of a "family farm" is: - ANS Labor (whether the family provides most of the farm labor or not) Based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's definition of a "family farm", approximately what percentage (%) of U.S. farms are "family farms"? - ANS 90 The average size farm in the U.S. is about _________ acres. - ANS 430 Too often, we associated "family owned" with "small", but that is a misconception. What company is the largest "family owned" private employer in the U.S. - ANS Walmart Most of the small farms in the U.S. are in the: - ANS East The first "We Are What We Eat" National Geographic Live! video we watched in class focused on the traditional hunting and gathering diet of native people in what country? - ANS Africa Subsistence farming (extensive and intensive) is NOT a dominate farming type in: - ANS Northern Asia What is the meaning of the term "intensive subsistence" farming? - ANS when a subsistence farmer concentrates his efforts on small plots of farm land What is the meaning of the term "extensive subsistence" farming? - ANS when a subsistence farmer works relatively large, but low productive farm lands Although relatively large, chicken production in modern India is unusual in that: - ANS it is still ~90% a "live" market (consumers buy most of their chicken live) After showing the final video (Ted Talk) during the Role of International Farmers lecture, Dr. Kiepper pointed out that the presenter went out of his way not to use the word(s): - ANS commercial fertilizer The title of the Reading assignment associated with the Role of International Farmers lecture is "The Story of South African Farming is a _________ Story ". - ANS Women's One of the take home messages from the Role of International Farmers lecture is: - ANS 70 - 80% of food in the developing world is produced by subsistence farmers God gives man dominion over the animals of the earth in which Book of the Christian Bible: - ANS Genesis Hinduism and Buddhism share the religious view of animals that: - ANS human ancestors return as animals, so animals must be treated with equal respect