How Well Do You Know Your Dairy Farming?
Quiz for year 11 Geography, Dairy farming unit.
- 1.Extensive Pastoralism has
- A.
Land divided into small blocks
- B.
Excellent road access
- C.
Very large farm holdings
- D.
High output per hectare
- E.
Alot of cheese products
- 2.Dairy farming is located in areas which are
- A.
Hilly/rocky
- B.
Lowland/plain
- C.
Central to urban development
- D.
Stoney
- E.
Sandy
- 3.For a dairy farm to run efficiently it requires
- A.
Cold temperatures
- B.
Close proximity to the sea
- C.
Quad-bikes
- D.
Fertile soils
- E.
Poor acessibility
- 4.What is a system?
- A.
A model which is used to show how an activity operates, linking interacting phenomena to form a whole
- B.
The distribution of inter-related phenomena in space
- C.
How people view and understand their environment
- D.
A spatial unit defined by a particular phenomena
- 5.An example of a natural input is
- A.
Water pollution
- B.
Effluent
- C.
Alluvial, free-draining soils
- D.
Calves
- E.
The Farmer
- 6.In a Dairy farming system feedbacks are
- A.
Ouputs which are lost from the system
- B.
Outputs which are used by the system as inputs
- C.
Reports written at each seasonal transition
- D.
The actions done by farmers to turn inputs into outputs
- 7.
This is a ________ cow - 8.
This is a ________ cow
- 9.Friesian's are good for
- A.
Their wet noses
- B.
Lower fat content, but higher output
- C.
Higher fat content, but lower output
- D.
Cheese and butter making
- 10.
This is a ________ milking shed
- 11.In break-feeding
- A.
A change of paddock after each milking allows grass to recover before it is grazed again
- B.
Movable electric fences allow strict control of grazing
- C.
Hay is distributed to cows directly after milking
- D.
Calves are weaned off their mothers milk in portions
- 12.An example of a Dairy farming feedback is _________
- 13.Air pollution is an environmental problem caused by Dairy farming
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Algal bloom is caused when
- A.
Native flora attempt to attract pollinators
- B.
Farmers stop fertilising their land
- C.
Excess fertiliser is washed into water-ways
- D.
Cows get parasitic infections
- 15.A solution to waterway pollution would be
- A.
Use of races
- B.
Use of a feeding pad
- C.
Carp ponds
- D.
Riparian management
- 16.What are two dairy farming regions of the South Island?
- A.
Manawatu and Lower Clutha
- B.
Lower Waitaki and Galatea
- C.
Canterbury and Hauraki Plains
- D.
Taieri and Southland
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