Agriculture
Types of Farms
Farming Production
Food Security
Response to Gloal Shortage
100
What is agriculture?
The process of raising products from the soil .
100
What is a mixed farm? Give an advantage for a mixed farm.
The use of a single farm for multiple purposes.
100
Give an example for how a farmer would reduce the amount of soil erosion.`
Wind brakes; Traps, zero tillage;
100
Define Food Security.
When people can consume enough nutritious food in order to stay healthy and active.
100
What is irrigation?
Farmland that becomes artificially.
200
What are the two broad categories for agriculture?
Commercial Farms and Subsistence Farms
200
What is required for a farm to be considered 'Intensive'?
Production that is characterized by high inputs of capital, fertilizers, labor or technologies.
200
Give one advantage and one disadvantages to Adminstered Marketing.
Advantage: Security, profits are exepected
Disadvantage: Little opportunity for profit making, Quota system, Difficult for export.
200
What are the four variables for determing a country has food security.
Availability
Access
Utilization
Stability
200
What are three main types of irrigation.
Sprinklers
Gravity Flow
Drip Systems
300
A commercial farmer needs to consider these four factors when choosing a crop to grow.
Type of Crop
Soil Condition
Climate
Growing Season
300
In Manitoba what types of farms will you see between 55N and 50N?
Wheat, grain, cattle farms.
300
Give an example of a technology that has impacted farming production.
GPS; LIDAR; Satellite Imagery; Databases
300
What are the two reasons for global food consumption increasing.
Rising population; Economic Development
300
What three major factors in Industrial Agriculture.
•Utilises approximately 70% of the worlds freshwater supply
•Dependent on chemical pesticides and artificial fertilisers
•Permanently removes nutrients from soils.
400
Soil is a combination of these four factors.
Parent Material
Organic Material
Air
Water
400
DAILY DOUBLE: What types of farms would you find in Nova Scotia? (Need 3 of 4).
Cattle, fruits, vegetables and dairy
400
How have GMO's affected food production?
Higher yield
Withstand pests --> less pesticides
Hardy to various climates.
400
Daily DOUBLE: Give two physical factors that affect food production and accessibility.
Climate; Water Stress; Pests and disease.
400
Define either aeroponics or hydroponics.
•Hydroponic Food production: Plants are growing in a nutrient solution.
•Aeroponic Food Production: plants are suspended in the air. Water containing nutrients is sprayed onto the roots and the water drips off the roots and is recycled.
500
Describe the A horizon of this soil profile. 
Topsoil, mostly mineral matter, but humus is present and biological activity is high.
500
This is a dominant forming of farming in Asia. What is it and how does it work?
Rice Farming. Done via paddy fields, an area of flooded arable land. Usually built next to a river for close access to water.
500
This farming technique utilized no synthetic chemicals or fertilizers.
Organic Farming
500
Food supply is impacted by human factors. What ae two human facotrs that relate to food accessbility and production.
Poverty; Technology; War and conflict
500
The process of producing food in a way that recreates natural ecosystems to protect soil, insects and other wildlife.
Permaculture.