Farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop.
What is monoculture?
100
List two aquatic organisms that are heavily farmed across the globe.
What is any fish, crustacean, or mollusk.
100
Name a GMO.
What is bacteria and yeast, or any insects, plants, fish, and mammals.
100
___ is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment.
What is compost.
100
Industrial agriculture arose hand in hand with the _______ Revolution
What is Industrial.
200
Each layer of soil is termed a ___?
Horizon.
200
What country dominates the world in reported aquaculture output?
What is China.
200
List a trait of genetically engineered crops.
What is resistance to pests, resistance to herbicides, increased nutritional value, or production of valuable goods.
200
What does organic farming exclude or strictly limit the use of?
What is herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, any synthetic fertilizer.
200
Scientists created strains of maize, wheat, and rice that are generally referred to as HYVs or ______________.
What is high-yielding varieties.
300
What is lowermost layer and the top layer in a soil profile?
What is O Horizon (top) and R/C Horizon (bottom).
300
What is a food production system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment?
What is aquaponics.
300
What are the top three biotech crops produced in the United States?
What is maize/corn, soybean, and cotton.
300
What is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar/different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons?
What is crop rotation.
300
A ______ field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. _____ fields are a typical feature of rice-growing countries of east and southeast Asia.
What is a paddy field.
400
List a piece of legislation passed in the United States in related to agriculture.
What is Taylor Grazing Act, Soil Conservation Act, Food Security Act, Freedom to Farm Act.
400
Name two common organisms that are primarily produced by the U.S. marine aquaculture.
What is oysters, clams, mussels, shrimp, and salmon as well as lesser amounts of cod, moi, yellowtail, barramundi, seabass, and seabream.
400
What is the transfer of genes between organisms in a manner other than traditional reproduction.
What is horizontal gene transfer.
400
List a mechanical and physical weed control practice used on organic farms.
What is Tillage (remove existing weed growth and prepare a seedbed for planting; turning soil after seeding to kill weeds, including cultivation of row crops), Mowing and cutting (removing top growth of weeds), Flame/thermal weeding (using heat to kill weeds), Mulching (blocking weed emergence with organic materials, plastic films, or landscape fabric).
400
Today's crop irrigation accounts for __% of the world's fresh water use
What is 70%.
500
Place silt, sand, and clay in order of mm in diameter (least to greatest).
What is clay (<0.002 mm), silt (0.002-0.005 mm), and sand (0.05-2 mm).
500
Aquaculture, probably the fastest growing food-producing sector, now accounts for nearly __ percent of the world's food fish.
What is nearly 50 percent.
500
Scientists first discovered that DNA naturally transfers between organisms in ____.
What is 1946.
500
Organic farming methods are studied in the field of _____?
What is agroecology.
500
Through the effects of climactic events, government policy, war and crop failure, millions of people died in each of at least __ famines between the 1920s and the 1990s