Soil Vocab
Growing different types of crops in the same field in a planned sequence to keep the soil healthy.
What is Crop Rotation?
The O Herizon
What is the humus layer?
Causes pesticides to drift through the air
What is wind?
Most commonly seen crops in the United States
What are corn, wheat, and soybeans?
A destructive caterpillar belonging to the Noctuidae moth family
What is a cabbage looper?
To plant seeds in the ground
What is to sow?
The A Herizon
What is the top soil layer?
A substance meant to control pests
What is a pesticide?
Animals cared for by farmers with the intention of using them on the farm or selling their byproducts
What is livestock or animal products?
Tiny, dark colored flying insects that infect houseplant soil
What are fungus gnats?
Dark brown or black organic material in soil, formed by decaying plants and animals.
What is Humus?
The B Herizon
What is the subsoil layer?
Sunlight can do what to a pesticide?
What is break it down?
True or False: Geography plays a crucial role in what farmers plant
What is true?
A tiny soft-bodied insect that feeds on plant sap
What is an aphid?
Farming that meets both current and future generational needs.
What is sustainable farming?
The C Herizon
What is the rock fragment layer?
True or False: Soil can effect how pesticides move?
What is true?
Raw goods are cleaned, graded, and packaged before distrubution
What is food priocessing?
Mice and rats that chew through walls, grain bags, and can spread diseases
What are rodents?
A vertical cross-section of soil from the ground surface down to the bedrock.
What is a soil profile?
The R Herizon
What is the bedrock layer?
What is a commonly used pesticide that covers a range of pests?
What is Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)?
The acreage taken up by soybean farming in the United States yearly
What is 80 million acres?
Commonly found beside aphids
What is an ant?