Land Grants, Research & WSU
What type of university was created to provide practical education in areas such as agriculture?
What is a Land Grant University?
The U.S. food system is described as what type of system?
What is a complex adaptive system?
What 1914 law formalized the National Extension System?
What is the Smith-Lever Act?
Do most Americans eat high or low on the trophic levels?
What is high?
El Niño generally brings what type of conditions to the Pacific Northwest?
What are warmer and drier conditions?
Name three areas of research recommended by NAS that WSU is currently addressing.
Any three of: What is sensing technology, breeding/genetic research, water use efficiency, data science, soils/sustainable cropping systems, or food science?
What term describes a food system's ability to withstand or recover from disruptions?
What is resilience?
Extension helps fulfill the Land Grant mission by making the university available to whom?
What is the people of the state, in the places where they live?
What percentage of global livestock feed is made from materials that are not edible by humans?
What is 86%?
What is the key difference between natural climate variability and climate change?
What is natural variability is a short term influence, while climate change is a long term influence.
According to the NAS material, what three qualities should food and agricultural systems research seek to increase?
What are efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency?
What type of problem is difficult to solve because it involves many interconnected causes, stakeholders, and potential consequences?
What is a wicked problem?
Early county Extension teaching went beyond agricultural production to include what other areas? Name two.
What is any two of: distribution, home economics, programs for boys and girls, or hands-on demonstrations?
What technology uses data and monitoring to manage individual animals or livestock production more precisely?
What is precision livestock farming?
As the climate warms, Washington's surface-water supply is expected to shift in what way?
What is: More water/flow earlier in the year and less during the summer when demand is highest.
Why are transdisciplinary and systems approaches important to agricultural research?
What is allowing researchers to integrate multiple areas and consider the whole system, including technology adoption, markets, policy, producers, and unintended consequences?
Put the levels of the iceberg model in order from the most visible to the deepest level.
What are Events → Patterns of Behavior → Systems/Structures → Mental Models?
What is an ecosystem service?
What are agricultural practices that work with nature to mimic natural processes?
What term describes how efficiently an animal converts feed into body mass or food products?
What is food conversion efficiency?
What tool uses the climate of another location today to help producers visualize and prepare for the climate their area may experience in the future?
What is a climate analog?
Why is outreach and engagement with producers necessary for agricultural research to actually create change?
What is research alone does not guarantee adoption; producers and other stakeholders need to be involved so that research can be translated into practical applications and best practices.
In systems thinking, what do we call a place within a system where an intervention can create significant change?
What is a leverage point?
What are the principle causes of soil degradation?
What are industrialization, agricultural practices, overgrazing, overexploitation for fuel, and deforestation?
What type of aquaculture system treats and reuses water rather than continually relying on new water?
What is a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS)?
According to Kruger's climate adaptation journey, what is the basis of any adaptation strategy?
What are genetics?