PLSO 1101

What is the name of the group of plants to which grasses, flowers, vegetables, fruits and shrubs belong?

The purposeful growing of plants to improve the supply of materials obtained from these plants is called ________.

Plant cultivation is believed to have been started in tropical and subtropical regions in the Middle East and __________.

Some of the earliest products of the industrial revolution were ______ _________ for crop cultivation.

The study of field-grown crops such as wheat, soybeans, corn, forages, and those used for industrial purposes is called ___________.

___________ is the study of crops that require more intense and constant care, from planting through delivery to the consumer

Payments that are supposed to help farms stay in business, but end up as one more factor encouraging consolidation in the industry are __________.

The profitability of farming has been helped to some extent by ____________ the uses of staple crops and adopting alternative crops.

Residential and _________ landscapes is a business that generates billions of dollars annually in the United States alone

The world population shows signs of stabilizing at about nine billion in the year _______.

In the U.S., even though the number of farms is __________, the size of farms is

Agriculture accounts for about ___ percent of energy consumption in North America and Europe.

Increasing the use and efficiency of plant biomass and _________________ would be a way to utilize photosynthetically captured energy.

The demand for food and fuel is leading to ____________ in many tropical countries.

A recent threat to agriculture is _____________.