1. What is the central idea of the passage?A. George Washington Carver helped farmers use the best pesticides and fungicides.B. George Washington Carver gained international fame for developing systematic crop rotation.C. George Washington Carver made significant contributions to American agriculture.D. George Washington Carver taught farmers about the benefits of growing peanuts. 2. Part A: According to paragraph 2, what is botany? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part B: Include a sentence from paragraph 2 that supports your answer to Part A.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Based on the information in the passage, how did Carver’s childhood impact his career?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How did Carver’s work impact the lives of farmers in the South? Describe two ways.1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Read the sentence from paragraph 4.He discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts, causing him to be erroneously credited as the inventor of peanut butter. What does the word erroneously mean in this sentence?A. incorrectly B. unsatisfactorily C. carelessly D. definitely 6. What can you infer about Carver’s personality and character from this biography? Use details from the text to explain your answer.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. In your own words, summarize George Washington Carver’s contributions to agriculture.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Answer the questions about the biography.

Which action did John Muir take that brought about "green awareness"?A.He advocated for the preservation of wildlands in the United States.B.He wrote a book on the need for preserving American Indian lands.C.He joined with researchers and biologists to discover the effects of insecticides.D.He spoke to Congress on behalf of farmers to restrict the greenhouse farming movement.

5. Which of the following crops was significant to the early growth of the North American colonies in the 1600s? (a) tobacco (b) cotton (c) paddy (d) wheat Ans:______

Please select 2 (two) of the questions below and address them in well thought-out, fact based, argumentative essays. Please be specific, avoid generalities, and stay on topic. Try to organize your essays around a central point you are making, or a position you are taking, on the issues detailed in the questions. which 2 questions would you pick? 1.In the course of the pre-modern period, from pre-history to the early 1800s, the farming systems of agriculture and animal husbandry went through several fundamental changes (“agricultural revolutions”). Each of these featured several factors/aspects that, while common for all agro revolutions, worked in a specific way on each occasion. Identify 3 (three) of these factors which, according to you, have been prominent in the sequence of revolutions, and discuss in detail their characteristics, agency, contribution to the majors shifts in farming, etc. 2.Discuss the role of technology in the evolution of pre-modern farming as a factor affecting any aspect of farming & animal husbandry within the contexts of their human and natural environments. Use examples from at least three different agroecosystems. 3. Compare and contrast two agroecosystems of radically different arrangements. Conceptually speaking, what lessons concerning farming/animal husbandry in general can you derive from the comparison? Can such lessons be derived at all, or is everything in farming agroecosystem-specific? 4. Analyze as many different aspects of the integration of animals and arable as you can think of in two specific agroecosystems. What conclusions can you make about the role of the integration for the overall functioning and performing of the agroecosystems in question? 5. Discuss and explain the role of individualism versus communitarianism in the functioning of two agroecosystems of the pre-modern period. How were they related, why where they related in the specific manner you observe, and what was the impact of that relation on the agroecosystems? 6. Identify and discuss as many aspects as possible of what you would consider the most dynamic, on the one hand, and the most conservative aspect, one the other, of pre-modern agriculture. Make a conclusion about what, in general, pushed farming forward and what held it back. 7. While many of the pre-modern foraging and agroecosystems appear quite sustainable, each of them had built-in features that undermined their sustainability. Analyze two such systems and discuss what made them sustainable, and what worked against their sustainability. 8. To what extent were pre-modern agroecosystems products of their societal environments (in the broad sense) and to what extent were they primary agent in changing these environments? Take a position on this debate by discussing at least three specific cases and derive a conclusion.

According to paragraph 2, what is botany?

PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?A. While Steinbeck doesn't agree with the treatment of migrant workers, he understands that treating them unfairly is necessary to support America's agriculture industry.B. Despite the hostility toward migrant workers and their difficult life experiences, their work is essential to the success of the nation's agriculture industry.C. Migrant workers are often taken advantage of during harvests, because they don't know that they have a right to better conditions and pay.D. While America understands that it abuses the labor of migrant workers, the nation appreciates the sacrifices workers make to support the agriculture industry.