466 Exam Review

Allelopathic species should be intercropped as a agrobiodiversity strategy

Herbs seeded around around a field to attract pests are known as:

Which of the following agricultural practices triggers high emissions of CO2?

Calculate the LER of the following:

A functional soil microflora increases the nutrient recycling rate

What is/are the key agents of agroecosystems?

Which of the following is a substitution method in agroecology?

A terrestrial ecosystem, anthropogenically altered to produce ecosystem services in the form of agricultural goods

The more diversified an ecosystem, the more it can accommodate disturbances and restore balance

Which of the following diversification strategies increases alpha crop diversity?

What is a catch crop?

Which of the following is a characteristic of traditional agriculture?

Which of the following is a characteristic of conventional agriculture?

Planting trees or shrubs around the perimeter of fields is an agroecological strategy known as:

Planting legumes amongst corn on a farm is an example of mixed farming

Calculate the land equivalent ratio (LER) for the following:

Which of the following enhances nutrient cycling?

What are the determinants of chemical nutrient availability?

Which of the following does NOT describe TEK

In a strip cropping system, symbiotic plant interactions between crops are common

The energy flow within the organisms of ecosystems

Harvesting spinach on a farm is an example of an ecosystem service

Which of the following is NOT a recommendation for sustainable crop rotation?

Which of the following is a redesign practice in agroecology?

All of the following are common cover crops for temperate climates except for:

Which ecosystem process is demonstrated by this image?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four processes that characterize ecosystems?

How is TEK communicated?

Polycropping crops of the same botanic family will lead to increased resilience of an agroecosystem to disturbances

Energy can be recycled