Ag Quiz Bowl Questions 1

Meat from goats

The brain and the spinal cord

The mixing of air with water or soile to improve the oxygen supply of plants and other organisms

Soils transported by streams

A component that achieves one or more purposes of the mixture

Loss of a fetus before it is viable

Sourness

Young member of the cattle family

Application of engineering principals in agricultural settings

Distinctive feature or quality

Removal of all marketable trees from an area

Ring in a cross section of a tree root, trunk, or limb representing one year's growth

A weed that completes its life cycle within one year

Ions that are positively charged

Soil below the B horizon; it is important for storing and releasing water to the upper layers of the soil

Male of the rabbit or goat family

Money or property

Light-green or white banded area on the outside of a leaf blade

Modified leaf that is often brightly colored and showy

Wool from wool producing rabbits

Management of agricultural resources, including farms and agribusiness

Blunt needle

The main component of the skletal system

The result of too little nutrition

Root other than the primary root or a branch of a primary root

Loan repaid in equal installments of interest

Sweetness

Male of the cattle family

Yellowing of the leaf

The plant roots hang in the air and are misted regularly with a nutrient solution

All jobs relating in some way to plants, animals, and renewable natural resources

Two or more leaves arising from the same part of the stem

Widespread starvation

Scattering seeds rather than sowing them in rows

Animal growth, care, and mangement

pH of more than 7.1

Mother

Castrated male chicken used for meat

Male of the swine family

Exact duplicate

A material such as sand, gravel, or marbles supports the plant roots

Growth layer in a tree root, trunk, or limb

Fee for selling a product

Putting a plan into action

A plant with its seeds enclosed in a pod or seed case

Water-logged areas

Teaching and program mangement in agriculture

A can with contents under pressure

The method used for calculating interest on consumer loans. The loan is repaid in installments of equal payments.

Newborn chicken or pheasant

A motion used to close a meeting

The human element that carries out a plan to meet goals and objectives in an agriscience business

To give birth in cattle

Ions that are negatively charged

Nonliving

Layer near the soil surface consisting of mineral and organic matter.

Name given to a pesticide by a recognized committee

Colorless, odorless, and tastless mixture of gases

Green pigment in leaves

A turfgrass that grows in clumps

A person who shoes horses

A measurement of the immediate effects of a single exposure to a chemical

Young chicken grown for meat

Portion of the male part that contains the pollen

Plants that do not lose their leaves on a yearly basis

Business, employment, or trade in agriculture, agribusiness, or renewable natural resources

Organization licensed to manage the buying and selling of commodities

A base in genes designated by the letter A

Organisms that complete part of their life cycle in water and part on land

In addition to; change in

Material inside bones that makes blood cells

Commercial firms that have developed with or stem out of agriculture

A turfgrass with a wide leaf blade

Science of soils and field crops

Evergreen trees with needlelike leaves

Soil group within a class designated by a small letter

A product made of skimmed milk

Fat found in milk

Activities concerned with the production of plants and animals, and the related supplies, services, mechanics, products

Members of the bovine family over one year old

Group of sepals of a flower

A type of motion used to add to, subtract from, or strike out words in a main motion

Skin or covering of a wheat kernel

system of permanemtly marking animals by cutting notches from their ears

The weather conditions of a specific region

Activity in a plantscaped area

Design, operation, maintenance, service, selling, and use of power units, machines, equipment, structures and building

Putting the emphasis in the area where the most returns will be recieved

Low red blood cell count often caused by a deficiency of iron, copper, or pyridoxine

Minature Chicken

Woody fiber parts that make up plant cell walls

Attention-getting color

Soil units containing mostly clay, silt, and sand particles held together by gel substance formed by organic matter

Predominant protein in milk

A unit of protoplasmic material with a nucleus and cell walls

Various parts of the body

pH of less than 6.9

An organism that produces a disease

Plant propagation by girdling a plant stem, wrapping with peat moss, and protecting with plastic

Leave undistrubed for a period of time