Agriculture and Farming Atlas

How The World Is Fed
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Quizzes

Scored quizzes drawn from the atlas. Pick a topic, a difficulty and a length, and see where you stand.

Foundations of Agriculture

The Agriculture Atlas Founding Quiz
Foundations of Agriculture · 5 questions
Five questions from the founding wave's own research: the wild ancestor hiding inside corn, the chemist who pulled fertilizer out of the air, and the famine that taught the world what monoculture costs.

Land, Famine and Reform

Hard Lessons of the Harvest
Land, Famine and Reform · 4 questions
Four questions from the atlas's second wave: the man who mapped where crops were born, the wire that ended the open range, the blight that put French wine on American roots, and the year the fish farm beat the fishing boat.
When the Ground Gave Out
Land, Famine and Reform · 5 questions
Five questions from the second concept, milestone and institution depth wave: soil erosion, desertification, land reform and famine.

Working the Land

The Working Land: Grazing, Growing and Ground
Working the Land · 5 questions
Five questions from the atlas's third depth wave: an insect bred out of the wild, two Tasmanians who named a design system, a Dust Bowl recovery number, an industrial pressure gauge, and a desert edge that may be greening.

Domesticated Animals

Animals of the Farm
Domesticated Animals · 5 questions
Five domesticated animals: where and when farming first tamed each one.

More Quizzes

New to the Herd and the Field
5 questions
Five questions from the crop and livestock canonical-expansion wave: grains, roots, fibers, camelids and silk.