Nutrition Requirements
The three macronutrients
What are Carbohydrate, Lipids, and Proteins?
3rd revolution, new practice of genetically altering crops for beneficial traits
What is the green revolution?
Focuses on single primary crop
What is a monoculture?
The most abundant crop
What is corn?
A substance used to kill, repel, or control forms of plants or animals
What is a pesticide?
The three largest agricultural productions.
What are wheat, corn, and rice?
Society moved from hunter gatherer to agriculture
What is the neolithic revolution?
Non crop plants hat grow a long crops to help with soil health
What are beneficial weeds?
Energy consumed from plants are used for moving and growing
What are herbivores?
First modern synthetic pesticide causing disease in humans and animals
What is DDT?
90% of all water
What percentage of water is used for agriculture?
New varieties in wheat and rice, higher yields, and a world grain increase
What are the effects of the Green Revolution?
2 or more crops on the same land with overlapping growth cycles
What is multicropping?
Potatoes, barley, oats, rye
What are the cool climate foods?
Manage crops/space, rotate crops
What is prevention of pesticides?
The main source of body energy
What is the function of carbohydrates?
Worked in plant breeding and doubled yields in food poor parts of Mexico
Crops planted together specifically for how they work together
What is companion planting?
Trawling, seining, and longlining
What are the three types of commercial fishing?
Biological control, natural predators, trapping, weeding
What are the alternatives to pesticides?
Building and maintaining structure
What is the role of proteins?
The science and technology for producing and using plants in agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, and land restoration
What is agronomy?
Combines raising aquatic organisms and terrestrial plants in the same system
What is aquaponics?
Animals are housed and fed for rapid growth in giant enclosures.
What is the confined animal feeding operation?
Set action thresholds, prevention, monitor, identify pests, and control
What are the steps of integrated pest management?