Farming
The three largest crops in the World.
What is Corn, Wheat, and Rice?
The supplement that helps livestock gain weight.
What is Antibiotics?
Who is Norman Borlaug?
The animals in America mostly eat a plant based diet of one crop.
What is Corn?
Any substance that is used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plants or animals that are considered pests.
What is Pesticide?
The type of Farming that has multiple different crops instead of one.
What is Polyculture?
The growing of aquatic species in pens or tanks.
What is Aquaculture?
First place where the wheat was genetically modified for gains that worked widespread.
Where is Mexico?
The crop which has the highest amount of it grown accounts for around 17 percent.
What is Grain?
Rachel Carson wrote the book called "Silent Spring" to get a Pesticide cancelled.
What is DDT?
The land is abandoned temporary while another plot of land is being grown on.
What is Shifting Cultivation?
Many commercial fishers leave behind a lot of ___ which disrupts the ecosystem in many instances.
What is Bycatch
The science and technology of producing food and supplies by yourself sometimes considered as self sufficient.
What is Agronomy?
Chicken, Tuna, and Steak are high in a vitamin that is needed to live a healthy life.
What is Protein?
After Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" the US banned DDT in ____
What is 1972?
This farming style can lead to a loss of organic matter in the soil, loss of seeds naturally occurring, and decrease in the health of the soil.
What is Monocropping?
Trawling, Pulse Seining, & Longing are all used by one type of fishers.
What is Commercial Fishers?
An organism that has had their genetics modified for increased yields.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism(GMO).
The amount of energy needed to raise one kg of water one degrees Celsius.
What is a Calorie?
The reason the Pesticides do not work all the time.
What is Natural Evolution?
Polyculture is the brod specification of these practices.
What is Crop Rotation, Multicropping, Intercropping, Companion Planting, and Alley Cropping.
Almost ____ kg of antibiotics are added to animal feed in the US.
What is 11 million?
GMO's are supposed to be able to work and grow well despite their ___ in the world.
What is Location?
The average amount of water a US Citizen consumes is ___.
What is 3 Cubic Meters?
The Actions that consist of, Set Action Threshold, Prevention, Monitor and Identify Pests, and Control.
What is IPM(Integrated Pest Management)?