Types of Farming
The practice of growing multiple crops in close proximity.
What is intercropping?
A substance used to kill/control a pest.
What is a pesticide?
Energy from food expresses itself in.
What is calories?
What is the 3rd agricultural revolution?
A source of protein, iron, and fats.
What is meat?
Large scale farms meant for exports.
What is a plantation?
The chemical used to control plants.
What is a herbicide?
The three macronutrients.
What are lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins?
Increases production through these three things.
What are breeding, fertilizer, and irrigation?
The main animal protein source for 1.5 billion people.
What is seafood.
Agriculture that strives to only use natural manners to grow crops.
What is organic?
The limit to the number of different pesticides that can be in food.
What is none?
The three products of agriculture.
What are wheat, corn, and rice?
The removal of genetic material from one organism and slicing it into the chromosomes of another.
What is genetic engineering?
The main global source of fishery data.
What is the UN FAO?
Growing non-crop plants along with other crops to keep grounds covered.
What is beneficial weeding?
The steps to integrated pest management.
What are set action thresholds, prevention, monitor and identify pests, and control?
The effect of not enough food variety and a lack of calories.
What is malnutrition?
Develops when a pesticide kills the majority of a population, except for few.
What is a tolerance?
Amount of grains grown each year.
What is 2.5 billion tons?
The process of growing plants in water instead of standard soil.
What is hydroponics?
They are susceptible to worse pesticide effects.
Who are children?
The amount of food that comes from the land.
What is 99.7%?
The percentage of processed food containing GMOs.
What is 60%?
Crops suffer from.
What is heat physiologically and transpiring?