Agriculture Basics
Growing plants and raising animals for food and useful products.
What is agriculture?
Supplying water to crops from wells, lakes, ponds, canals, or dams.
What is irrigation?
Extracting valuable minerals from the Earth.
What is mining?
What is physical control?
A surface that does not allow water to infiltrate into the ground.
What is an impervious surface?
Loosening and digging soil to aerate it.
What is ploughing?
This type of irrigation can cause waterlogging and wastes water.
Restoring land after surface mining.
What is reclamation?
What is biological control?
The cloudiness of water caused by suspended particles.
What is turbidity?
Evenly spreading soil after ploughing.
What is leveling?
This type of irrigation uses hoses with holes to conserve water.
What is drip irrigation?
Managing and conserving forest resources scientifically.
What is forestry?
CAFO.
This layer of soil has organic matter like decomposed plant material.
What is the O horizon?
Dispersing seeds into the soil by hand or machine.
What is sowing?
This is the total water used throughout the supply chain to produce a product.
What is water footprint?
Growing trees outside forests for community benefits
What is social forestry?
IPM
This is the term used to describe excess nutrient runoff causing algal blooms and anoxic environments.
What is eutrophication?
All chickens are raised and harvested at the same time.
What is broiler chicken farms?
What is consumptive water use?
What is commercial forestry?
Pests developing a resistance is a drawback of this type of pest control.
What is chemical pest control?
CLORPT
What is Climate, Organisms, Relief, Parent Material, Time?