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This is food in malting and feed for livestock?
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Barley
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This main crop is grown for the oil from their seeds?
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Sunflowers
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These fruit or seed of plants are used for food?
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Legume
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Water activates special proteins which begins the process of seed growth is defined as what?
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Enzymes
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The US farmer today feeds how many people?
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155
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This is grown mainly for the oil from their seeds?
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Oil seed crops
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What is the primary crop raised as a fiber?
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Cotton
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What is step 3 in how plants reproduce?
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step 3: seed grows a root to success water underground
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This crop is used for cooking oil, bread, breakfast cereals and sweetener?
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Corn
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What are the 3 categories of field crops?
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Grain crops, Oil Seed crops and specialty crops
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Have only one seed leaf inside the seed coat?
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Monocot
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This grain is rich in carbohydrates?
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Cereal Grains
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The US farmer fed how many people in 1960?
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26 people
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This is a small, hard, dry seed with or without an attached hull or fruit layer?
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Grain
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What is step 4 in how plants reproduce?
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step 4: shoots or growth above ground will appear
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What is step 2 in how plants reproduce?
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step 2: seed has a new location and covered with dirt it can germinate
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What percentage of protein and over what percentage of calories are consumed by humans and livestock come from cereal grains?
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80% and over 50%
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This is feed for livestock?
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Grain Sorghum
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This stimulant crop is very labor intensive?
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Tobacco
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What are the 2 categories that you can break grain into?
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Cereals and Legumes
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This crop is mainly used in bread and is also feed for livestock?
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Rye
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Seeds that come from grasses such as wheat, millet, rice, barley, oats, rye, triticale, sorghum and corn are what type of grain?
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Cereal Grain
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What are the influencing factors?
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Water, Seed, Temperature
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What is step 1 in how the plants reproduce?
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step 1: male plants release pollen
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What percentage do sugar beet production account for in refined sugar in the US?
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35%
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What is known as "naked seeds"?
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Gymnosperm
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Define Germination?
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is the process of seeds developing into new plants
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A plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel is what?
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Angiosperm
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A plant that has seeds unprotected by an ovary or fruit?
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Gymnosperm
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Tobacco is considered to be what type of crop, which is grown and strictly sold as this?
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Cash Crop
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What is Wheat used for in food and feed?
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bread, pasta, breakfast cereal; livestock and poultry
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What are the 3 major grain crops grown in the US?
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Wheat, Corn and Rice
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What is step 5 in how plants reproduce?
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step 5: shoots appear and begins to grow leaves to harvest energy from the sun
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This is food for breakfast cereals and feed for mainly cattle and horses?
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Oats
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What is forage crops?
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Utilized as roughage for livestock feed
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