Agriculture
This is the term for the production of food, fuel, and fiber
What is Agriculture?
This concept refer to the process from getting agricultural products to the consumer.
What is Farm-to-Table?
This is the term for birds raised for eggs and meat.
What is poultry?
This is the term that refers to fruits and vegetables grown in an agricultural systems.
What is produce?
This is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their activities.
What is photosynthesis?
Agricultural operations done in an urban settings
What is Urban Agriculture?
A system that connects producers and consumers within the food system closer by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms.
What is a CSA?
This large ruminant has 4 stomachs.
What is a cow?
Plants (such as grass) grown for the feeding especially of grazing animals
What is Pasture?
This is the United States federal agency that is focused around environmental protection
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Goods produced in factories and/or commodities in agriculture should reach customers. The systems by which they reach the customers.
What is distribution?
This is the federal agency that regulates food, drugs, medical devices, and other products in the U.S.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
An animal that feeds on plants such as a cow.
What is an Herbivore?
The branch of biology that deals with the study of plants, including their structure, properties, and biochemical processes.
What is Botany?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The science of soil management and crop production.
What is Agronomy?
The state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
What is food security?
Animals that eat meat and plants
What are omnivores?
The art or practice of garden cultivation and management.
What is Horticulture?
The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
What is pollution?
This is the federal agency in the United States government that is focused around agriculture.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Somewhere where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain
What is a food desert?
Sheep and goats are two examples of this type of two stomached animals
What are small ruminants
Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
What is climate change?
The most abundant element in the earth's crust
What is oxygen?