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The management of soil to prevent its destruction
Soil Conservation
Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
Sustainable agriculture
Water that contains waste from homes or industry
Waste Water
The use and management of forest ecosystems in an environmentally balanced and enduring way
What is sustainable forestry
an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
What is forest fire
To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
Mitigate
An agricultural method in which farmers do not turn the soil between seasons, used as a means of reducing erosion
No-till agriculture
The cultivation of seafood
Aquaculture
planting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed
What is reforestation
10,000 square meters
What is a hectare
Contour Plowing
Cultivation in which different crops are sown in alternate strips to prevent soil erosion
Strip cropping
Water pollution that affects aquaculture
Contaminate
A fire deliberately set under controlled conditions in order to reduce the accumulation of dead biomass on a forest floor
What is prescribed burn
use of insecticides, may kill or be beneficial to insect
What is Chemical control
Belts of trees along field edges to reduce wind erosion
Wind breaks
An agricultural method in which two or more crop species are planted in the same field at the same time to promote a syneraistic interaction
Intercropping
World leader in aquaculture
China
Scientific administration of forest resources for sustainable harvest and maintenance of a healthy biological community
What is forest management
removal of dead/dying trees ,usually too late to help
What is Mechanical control
Crops that do not die at the end of the growing season but live for several years, which means they can be harvested annually without replanting
Perennial Crops
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
Crop rotation
pest control strategy that uses a combination of techniques to reduce pest pops to economically acceptable levels.
IPM
an area where trees are the most dominant living organisms
What is a forest
Integrated Pest Management
What is IPM