ANSC 440 Exam 1 Questions and Complete Rationales.

ANSC 440 Exam 1 Questions and Complete Rationales (True or False) Riding horses in warfare and for pleasure came before driving horses. - Correct Ans: False (True or False) Ancient humans held the horse in awe and placed it among the gods and in their legends. - Correct Ans: True (True or False) One of the Scythians' warrior techniques was to shoot backward over their horses' croups as they turned away from the enemy. - Correct Ans: True (True or False) In some larger mines, a pony would be bred, born, and put to work without ever having seen the light of the sun. - Correct Ans: True (True or False) Horses were first domesticated between 4000 and 2000 B.C. on the steppes north of the Black Sea. - Correct Ans: False - 4000 and 3000 B.C. By the seventh century A.D., the ____________________ emperors had huge stud farms holding as many as 300,000 horses. - Correct Ans: T'ang Men who came from ____________________ and Tennessee to settle Texas were the first of the American cowboys - Correct Ans: Kentucky ____________________ were employed by the railroads to carry ties, rails, and supplies to the railheads, and to haul dirt and rock from the excavation of mountain tunnels. - Correct Ans: Draft horses 1. Phylum 2. Family 3. Class 4. Kingdom 5. Genus 6. Order Animalia Chordata Mammalia Perissodactyla Equidae Equus - Correct Ans: 1. Chordata 2. Equidae 3. Mammalia 4. Anamalia 5. Equus 6. Perissodactyla Match the mythological horse/person with it's story. Poseidon, Epona, Centuar, Unicorn 1. Half man/half horse 2. Legs of a buck, the tail of a lion, and the head and body of a horse 3. Goddess of the horse 4. Creator of the horse - Correct Ans: 4. Poseidon 3. Epona 1. Centuar 2. Unicorn (True or False) In recent years, winning a Triple Crown has become a very rare achievement, with most horses specializing in a limited distance range. - Correct Ans: True (True or False) As the automobile, truck, and tractor numbers increased, horse numbers declined. - Correct Ans: True (True or False) The horse industry directly produces goods and services amounting to $25.3 billion and has a total impact of $112.1 billion on the U.S. gross domestic product. - Correct Ans: False (True or false) The industry needs to enhance unity and communication and to expand advertising, promotional, marketing, and educational programs to meet n