CSET Agriculture Test Practice Questions
1. Which of the following groups includes fundamental elements of floral design?
A) Balance, scale, proportion, rhythm
B) Rhythm, rhyme, cost, efficiency
C) Emotion, feeling, occasion, color
D) Form, line, texture, space
2. There is a theory of heredity which states that traits are discrete items organized according to mathematical rules. These traits are in actuality the genes that are collected on the chromosome. This system is called:
A) Physical genetics
B) Mendelian genetics
C) Monohybrid Cross
D) Dihybrid Cross
3. Which of the following factors has an influence on the nutritional needs of livestock?
A) Cost of feed
B) Number of animals being fed
C) Elimination of flies
D) Ability to walk while grazing
4. Which of the following defines monoculture?
A) planting only one crop in a certain area
B) planning only one crop in a small area
C) planting that preserves the long-term fertility of the land
D) planting without utilizing synthetic pesticides
5. Which one of the following types of plants could be propagated by division?
A) Marigold
B) Dahlia
C) Sunflower
D) Pumpkin
CSET Agriculture Test Answers
1. Answer: D
The fundamental elements of floral design include form, line, texture, space and color. Answer choice A lists fundamental principles of floral design. Principles and elements serve different purposes. Answer choices B and C are incorrect.
2. Answer: B
Mendelian genetics, or Mendelism, comes from Gregor Mendel's original work. Answer A is too general of a term. Answer B (Monohybrid Cross) is one of the principles in Mendelian inheritance for both plants and animals having to do with two parents that are different in just one gene. Answer D (Dihybrid Cross) is one of the principles in Mendelian inheritance having to do with principles of inheritance of two pairs of traits.
3. Answer: D
Walking while grazing requires an animal to use more energy. The amount of land available for the animal to walk depends on the land that is available for the particular animal. The amount of food needed should be based on what the animal needs in the particular environment, including how much energy is used while grazing. The pasture quality is also a factor, as is the type of supplements that the animal will receive. Answer choice C (elimination of flies) may cause livestock to bunch together in an effort to have fewer flies to deal with, but it does not influence nutritional needs. This is different from changing direction or location because of the weather (such as too hot or too windy). Weather does have an influence on the nutritional needs of animals, since it affects the amount of energy expended.
4. Answer: A
Monoculture is planting just a single crop in a given area (which could be large or small). Examples include corn, wheat, or a lawn of grass. Answer choice C, planting that preserves the long-term fertility of the land, describes sustainable agriculture. Answer choice D, planting without utilizing synthetic pesticides, describes organic agriculture.
5. Answer: B
The Dahlia is a type of tuber. It would do well with propagation by division. Propagation by division is simply digging up the parent plant and dividing it into more plants. Plants that spread easily underground, such as ones with stems that run horizontally on the surface of the dirt (stolons), bulbs, plants with root crowns, or plants with swollen underground stems (tubers), do well with this process. Answers A, B, and C are propagated with seeds.
