Definition of Natural Resources
What can the water cycle be described as?
What is the continuous movement of water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Air is
What is a mixture of gases, mostly nitrogen and oxygen, with trace gases like Carbon Dioxide and Methane?
What are minerals, organic matter, air, and water?
What are Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium?
2 types of Natural Resources
What are Renewable and Non-Renewable?
Water is important for agriculture because
What is crucial for growing crops because it is needed for photosynthesis and nutrient transport?
Oxygen is important because
What is it is essential for the respiration of most living organisms?
Soil Texture refers to this physical quality of soil
What is The size of soil particles?
What is the soils ability to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere?
Definition of Renewable Resources
What are resources than can be replenished naturally
What is purposely providing supplemental water to crops?
Carbon Dioxide is important because
What is it is used by plants during photosynthesis to produce oxygen and glucose?
Soil Fertility can be described as
What is the ability of the soil to provide essential nutrients to plants?
Biotic Factors of an ecosystem
Definition of Non-Renewable resources
What are resources that do not replenish naturally or quickly
Types of irrigation that we discussed in class
What are surface irrigation, Drip irrigation, and then sprinkler systems.
Nitrogen and oxygen make up ____ and ______ percent of the atmosphere
What is 78% and 21 %
Soil Structure is important because
What is the Arrangement of soil particles directly affects the ability to retain water and nutrients?
Abiotic Factors of an ecosystem
What are the Non-living elements such as sunlight, temp, water, soil, and air?
Example of a renewable resource and a non renewable resources
What is Solar energy, wind, and biomass and then what are fossil fuels, and minerals?
What are sprinkler systems and drip irrigation?
Hint: There is a day that is celebrated in April in support of this action.
What is planting trees?
Sustainable soil management practices include
What are crop rotation, cover cropping, and reduced tillage?