Farming Practices
What is it called when you grow the same crop every year in the same place?
What is monocropping?
What do we call chemicals that kill bugs on crops?
What are insecticides?
What farming practice helps prevent soil from washing away by not tilling the land?
What is no-till farming?
What irrigation method uses pipes to water plants directly at their roots?
What is drip irrigation?
What is it called when the land becomes dry and can’t grow crops due to overuse?
What is desertification?
This type of farming involves cutting down and burning trees to clear land.
What is slash-and-burn farming?
This method uses other animals to help control pests.
What is biocontrol?
What is it called when you plant different crops to help keep the soil healthy?
What is crop rotation?
This method uses channels to carry water between rows of crops.
What is furrow irrigation?
What fishing method drags large nets along the ocean floor and can harm sea creatures?
What is trawling?
Which big change in farming helped use machines and new seeds to grow more food?
What is the Green Revolution?
What does using herbicides help control on farms?
What are weeds?
These types of crops don’t need to be planted every year. What are they?
What are perennial crops?
What is a problem with flooding fields with water for irrigation?
What is waterlogging?
What is bycatch, and why is it bad for the ocean?
What is catching fish or animals you didn’t want, and it harms ocean life?
What do we call using machines to plant, harvest, and water crops faster?
What is mechanization?
What is one problem with using chemical pesticides?
What is harming other animals and polluting the environment?
This method involves planting crops along hills to stop soil from washing away.
What is contour plowing?
What happens when too much salt builds up in the soil from irrigation?
What is salinization?
What do we call it when cities grow and take over land that was once for animals and plants?
What is urban sprawl?
What is it called when you plant trees in rows to stop wind from blowing away soil?
What are windbreaks?
What is it called when you grow different crops each year to help control pests?
What is crop rotation?
What is it called when animals rotate between different grazing areas to protect the land?
What is rotational grazing?
What is the name of the underground water source used for irrigation in the Great Plains?
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
What happens when too much water runs off from cities and pollutes rivers and lakes?
What is urban runoff?