Understanding the Acre: A Historical and Practical Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge protects nearly 7,000 acres of American crocodile habitat in southern Florida.

the community of Half Acre, Alabama, once contained half an acre of land that was deeded to The Devil.

together with the Treaty of Mendota, the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ceded nearly 24 million acres of Sioux land to the United States in exchange for cash and annuities.

the eruption of Pu'u 'O'o added 544 acres (2.2 km²) of land to the island of Hawaii.

land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia.

Caesars Creek State Park has 7,900 acres centered around a 2,800 acre lake created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike.

despite their names, Little Bolton had a larger acreage than Great Bolton.

Ash Lawn-Highland, the former home of U.S. President James Monroe, has been transformed into a 535-acre working farm, museum, and site for the performing arts.

Understanding the Acre: A Historical and Practical Quiz

1 Historically, the size of farms and landed estates in the United Kingdom was usually expressed in acres (or acres, ________, and perches), even if the number of acres was so large that it might conveniently have been expressed in square miles.

2 The word "furlong" itself derives from the fact that it is one ________ long.

3 Before the enactment of the ________, many countries in Europe used their own official acres.

4 The acre was approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one ________.

5 In the ________, the hectare is commonly used for the same purpose.

6 The acre is a unit of ________ in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems.

7 One acre is 90.75 percent of a 53.33-yard-wide ________ field.

8 In 1958, the United States and countries of the ________ defined the length of the international yard to be 0.9144 meters.

9 These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4,221 square meters, whereas in ________ as many variants of "acre" existed as there were German states.

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