Malnutrition caused when a person receives fewer calories or nutrients in the diet that are needed to maintain a healthy body.
What is Under-nutrition?
100
The wearing away or removal of ______ from the land; caused by wind and flowing water. (Erosion)
What is Soil?
100
Ntesdtacioreifi (from once-fertile, to nonproductive desert)
What is Desertification?
100
Releases CO2 into the atmosphere by using fossil fuels to run machinery, enables natural areas to remain wild instead of being converted to agricultural land.
What is Industrialized Agriculture?
100
Toxic chemical that kills insects
What is Insecticides?
200
Malnutrition caused by eating food in excess of that required to maintain a healthy body.
What is Over-nutrition?
200
_____ are medicines that prevent or combat bacterial, viral, or fungal diseases.
What is Antibiotics?
200
Gtraecrin (Soil conservation method)
What is Terracing?
200
Tropical soils lose their productivity quickly causing farmers to move to a different land every three or so years.
What is Slash-and-Burn Agriculture?
200
Toxic chemical that kills plants
What is Herbicide?
300
Any organism that interferes in some way with human welfare or activities.
What is Pest?
300
A type of shifting cultivation in tropical rain forests in which a patch of vegetation is _____, leaving nutrient minerals in the ash.
What is Burned?
300
Ramsasmu (Progressive emaciation)
What is Marasmus?
300
Increases organic material in soil, reduces soil erosion, requires a greater use of herbicides to control weeds, requires new equipment, and new techniques.
What is No-tillage Agriculture?
300
Toxic chemical that kills rodents
What is Rodenticide?
400
The rearing of aquatic organisms, either freshwater or marine, for human consumption.
What is Aquaculture?
400
Biological control is a method of pest control that involves the use of ______ occurring disease organisms, parasites, or predators to control pests.
What is Naturally?
400
Proc Natroito (Planting different crops in the same field)
What is Crop Rotation?
400
Causes fewer environmental problems to the agricultural ecosystem, and focuses on long term sustainability of soil.
What is Organic Agriculture?
400
Toxic chemical that kills fungi
What is Fungicide?
500
The cultivation of only one type of plant over a large area.
What is Mono-culture?
500
_______ is caused by crop failures.
What is Famine?
500
Riwhaskorko (Under nutrition resulting from protein deficiency)
What is Kwashiorkor?
500
May produce crops rich in beta-carotene, which the body uses to make vitamin A, will contain all essential amino acids, and develops more productive farm animals and plants.
What is Genetically Modified Food?
500
Ideal pesticide that only kills specific organisms.