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Test Your Corn Knowledge!

1. Farmers grow corn on every continent except Antarctica and Africa.
	True False
2. The corn plant has both male and female parts.
	True False
3. Corn is the largest grain crop produced in the United States.
	True False
4. One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.
	True False
5. Most of the corn grown in the United States is Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri and South Dakota.
	True False
6. The main ingredient in most dry pet food is soybeans.
	True False
7. Sweet corn is the most important commercial type of corn grown in the United States.
	True False
8. Dent corn and flint corn are commonly called "field corn" because they are fed to animals. Sweet corn and popcorn and are used for human food.
	True False
9. Hybrid corn is made by crossing two or more corn plants to produce a reliable corn seed.
	True False
10. Corn is planted in the early spring using a corn planter and harvested in the fall.
	True False
11. Corn kernels are used to make fructose, a liquid sugar used to sweeten soda pop and bakery goods.
	True False
12. Ethanol is made from corn and is used as fuel for cars, trucks and buses.
	True False
13. The greatest export growth potential for corn grown in the United States is South America.
	True False
14. Corn is used to make an ingredient used in laundry detergents, to make some "packing peanuts", ink, and baby diapers.
	True False
15. Corn in an important ingredient in pop (soda).
	True False
16. Corn is used to improve printability in paper.
	True False
17. The primary use of corn in the United States to process corn into animal feed.
	True False
18. The most abundant type of corn grown in the United States is sweet corn.
	True False
19. Corn originated in Europe and was brought to the Americas by explorers and those that followed them.
	True False
20. Corn was started in Mexico from a wild grass called teosinte.
	True False

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