Title: Unit 13 Quiz
Course: SAT 100 Principles of Agroecology > Section: SAT 100 Principles of Agroecology

Q: A sustainable agroecological management system does not have to concern itself with ecological factors.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: What is included when evaluating the success of a management system?
- evaluates yield changes in relationship to the changes made
- examines ecological changes over time using sampling and monitoring
- determines changes in energy, labor and profitability to become sustainable
- uses observations compiled over a period of time
- All of the above
A: All of the above

Q: Level 4 conversion _____.
- substitutes conventional inputs and practices
- increases efficiencies of conventional practices in order to reduce costs
- redesigns the agroecossytem so it functions on a new set of ecological processes
- re-establishes a more direct connection between growers and consumers of food
- All of the responses are correct
A: re-establishes a more direct connection between growers and consumers of food

Q: All farmers buy into and understand the value of sustainable agroecosystems.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: Energy costs for farming have _____.
- remained steady
- risen slightly
- risen dramatically
- None of the responses are correct
A: risen dramatically

Q: Organic sustainable and ecologically based systems are essentially related in critical ways.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Which of the following factors can promote ecologically-based management?
- advances in farming practices demonstrating sustainability
- energy cost increases are spiraling out of control
- audience for organic and sustainable food sources is strong
- awareness of need to become environmentally responsible has increased
- All of the responses are correct
A: All of the responses are correct

Q: Farmers historically have never been innovative.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: The principle factors in ecologically based management include _____.
- developing management of nutrients to include recycling and use of natural biological methods
- continuing to strive for annual crop yield increases
- using renewable sources of energy
- All of the responses are correct
A: All of the responses are correct

Q: Ecologically based farm management requires changes to occur in the field on an ongoing basis.
- True
- False
A: True