Food & Agriculture
Widespread starvation caused by a shortage of food
What is famine?
The movement of rock, soil, and sand by wind and water.
What is erosion?
The first man given permission to eat meat by God
Who is Noah?
Humans can survive for more than a month without food, but we can only live for a few ____________ without water.
What is days?
Hole that is dug or drilled to reach underground water
What is a well?
The amount and type of food a person eats
What is diet?
Plowing is eliminated and the seeds of the next crop are planted among the remains of the previous crop.
What is no-till farming?
Domesticated animals that are raised to be used on a farm or ranch, or to be sold for profit
What are livestock?
The water people drink
What is fresh water?
Process of removing salt from salt water
What is desalination?
A condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or do not eat a sufficient variety of foods to fulfill all of the body’s needs
What is malnutrition?
Keeps soil in multiple, small, level fields.
What is terracing?
Domesticated birds raised for meat or eggs
What is poultry?
Water molecules travel between Earth’s surface and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
Artificial lake formed behind a dam
What is a reservoir?
The 3 major nutrients we get from food
What are proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates?
A form of pest management that uses living organisms to control pests.
What is biological pest control?
Area of land drained by a river
What is a watershed?
Can occur when power plants and other industries use water in their cooling systems and then discharge the warm water into a lake or river.
What is thermal pollution?
Soil that can support the growth of healthy plants
What is fertile soil?
A technique in which genetic material in a living cell is modified for medical or industrial use.
What is genetic engineering?
Underground formation that contains groundwater
What is aquifer?
Water is this kind of resource
What is renewable?