Nutrition
What provides us energy
What is calories?
The definition of the Green Revolution
What is the genetic alteration for beneficial crops?
This causes quick spread of pests and disease
What is monoculture?
Define pesticide
What is a substance used to kill/repel/control plant or animal life that are considered pests?
GMO stands for
What is genetically modified organism?
The three macronutrients
What is carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
The three agricultural revolutions
What is the Neolithic, British, and Green?
What is reduced nutrients/reduced water absorption/loss of biodiversity?
Five types of pesticides
What is herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, disinfectants, and compounds to control rodents?
DDT is being used in Africa to control this disease
What is malaria?
The big three crops around the world
What is wheat, corn, and rice?
The green revolution began using more ___
What is chemical fertilizers/irrigation/higher yield crops/agrochemicals?
Define fallow
What is when a land is left alone so it restores the natural vegetation and soil quality?
Pesticides travel
What is through drifting in the air, flowing through soil and water, bioaccumulating, and getting passed from mother to baby?
The amount of water used in agriculture
What is 90%?
What malnutrition occurs because of
What is when people don't eat enough calories or nutrients to stay healthy.
The green revolution was during this decade
What is the 60s?
Three different types of polyculture
What is crop rotation/companion planting/multi-cropping/alley cropping/intercropping/beneficial weeds?
The dirty dozen is
What is produce that is likely to have higher amounts of pesticides?
Most of our grains go to this instead of human consumption
What is biofuels and feeding cattle?
What is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius?
Two countries it started in
China increased yields by __% when they diversified the rice in the same field
What is 89%?
This many pests have developed resistance to pesticides
What is around 500?
The definition of agronomy
What is the science and technology of using plants as resources.