Sustainable Agriculture Systems
Conventional Agriculture
Randomness
3 Rs
Alternative Energy
100
A type of sustainable agriculture avoids and excludes the use of fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, and livestock food additives?
What is organic farming
100
The way conventional agriculture handles bugs that eat crops.
What is insecticide or pesticide?
100
The 3 main nutrients in man-made fertilizer
N-P-K
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium
100
Re-processing material to make another product
What is recycling?
100
Relies on the movement of water from high to low altitude.
What is hydroelectric?
200
The sustainable agriculture technique of planting crops on farmland over the winter to keep soil from blowing away.
What are cover crops?
200
The way conventional agriculture handles weeds in a field.
What is herbicide?
200
Way to get water to crops in the least wasteful fashion.
What is drip irrigation?
200
The main 4 categories of recyclable materials..
paper, plastic, metal, glass
200
Hot water is pumped up from deep inside Earth and is used to heat homes or to generate electricity. This describes...
What is geothermal energy?
300
A sustainable agriculture technique that uses biowaste such as decomposed organic matter to supply nutrients instead of artificial fertilizer.
What is Composting
300
The practice of planting genetically identical plants over an entire field to make planting, maintenance, and harvesting easier and more efficient.
What is monoculture?
300
Indoor animal production facilities are also called...
CAFOs- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
300
Bringing tote bags to grocery store instead of getting plastic ones.
What is an example of reuse.
300
One problem with ____ energy is that it produces radioactive waste.
What is nuclear energy?
400
Sustainable Agriculture technique that involves changing the types of plants on a field in a rotating cycle to avoid depleting the soil of essential nutrients.
Crop rotation
400
Something conventional farmers do to their fields every year before planting seeds...
Till up the soil
400
Farming of shrimp, fish, shellfish.....
What is aquaculture?
400
Drinking tap water instead of bottled water.
What is an example of reduce.
400
Garbage and waste products are combusted to produce electricity. Corn is converted into ethanol to run engines.
What is biomass energy?
500
Sustainable agriculture technique that uses the following techniques to control insect pests:
varying planting times to avoid insects life cycle
trapping insect pests
natural insecticides (neem oil, chili powder, soap spray)
biological controls (ladybugs, other natural predators)
What is integrated pest management
500
A way seed companies use scientific research to generate genetically identical seeds capable of withstanding less than optimal conditions while still producing much higher crop yields.
What is genetic engineering or creating genetically modified organisms?
500
Two classes of products that would come from aquaponics...
What are fish and vegetables.
500
Something that it will eventually break down completely in nature
What is biodegradable?
500
The largest source of alternative energy in NC, and the one best suited for use in the piedmont.
What is solar power?