AREC 365 - Exam 2 Chapter Quizzes with Complete Solutions

AREC 365 - Exam 2 Chapter Quizzes with Complete Solutions The upward slope of the supply curve means that as the price of a good increases, the producer is more willing to produce: More of a good A technological improvement is some kind of new knowledge that allows farmers to: Produce more output with the same resources Items considered luxuries tend to have income elasticities: Above 1 True/False. The supply curve shows how much of a good a person will want to consume at all possible levels of price False According the Malthusian thesis: Human numbers increase by geometric progression and subsistence (land) increases by arithmetic progression According to the theory of demographic transition, population growth goes through how many stages? Four The problem of AIDS is especially severe in: Sub-Saharan Africa True/False. According to the theory of demographic transition, in the third stage, mortality declines while fertility remains high. False The range of the Gini Coefficient is from: Zero to one, but often the ratio is multiplied by 100 and is reported on a scale from 0 to 100 Kuznetsk hypothesized that the path of income equality through time in the Third World would trace the shape of the letter: U According to the convergence theory, income per capita: In poor countries will catch up with income in rich countries True/False. According to the table "World Distribution of Income 2007", 85% of the world's population earns less than $19,150 annual income. True The dependency ratio is defined as the role of: Dependents to working-age adults According to the FAO, how many more plant-derived calories are necessary to produce 1 calorie of beef as opposed to 1 calorie of pork? 7 Average per capita food requirements in a population does not depend on which of the following? Racial composition of the population True/False. For developing countries, the 10-to-15 year old cohort is much larger than the 45-to- 50 year old cohort. True Yield is defined as: Output per acre Total arable land grew at _________ rate as/than pastureland during the late 1980s and the 1990s. A slower According the Alan Wild, the biggest biological and physical limitation to agricultural development in developing countries is the shortage of: Water True/False. Water use tripled between 1950 and 1990 as world population soared by some 2.7 billion. True The environmental issue with the greatest potential for influencing future food production is: Land degradation Drip irrigation involves: Delivering water directly to the plant roots The three greenhouse gases that are means by which human activity may cause global warming are: Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide True/False. Agricultural production is not a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. False Production function shows the: Maximum quantity of output that is obtainable for any given quantity of input Despite high potential for additional fertilizer use, average fertilizer application rates in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are: Lower than those