Top Crop!
What is the term for planting only 1 crop species?
This type of farming is used mostly just to feed your own family.
What is traditional subsistence farming? (or just subsistence farming)
This is what occurs when soil erodes quickly and plants can no longer be supported by the soil, changing the landscape and ecosystem.
What is desertification?
This is the general term for fish or shellfish farming.
What is aquaculture?
These are organisms that have been created to have a trait of interest such as drought resistance.
What are GMOs?
What can be planted between rows of crop plants to help maintain soil fertility, holding water, & nutrient cycling?
What are cover crops? (also acceptable= what are trees?)
This is the term for the time period in which high-input industrialized agriculture was established, leading to an increase in crop yields.
What is the Green Revolution?
This process used especially in industrial farming can lead to soil salinization.
What is irrigation? (especially groundwater irrigation)
This type of fishing drags a net on the bottom of the ocean floor, often severely disrupting habitats.
What is bottom trawling?
This type of agriculture is often used for cash crops such as bananas or coffee.
What is plantation agriculture?
What is the term for using multiple methods of controlling bugs and weeds, incorporating synthetics and natural methods?
What is Integrated Pest Management (or IPM)?
This is an area packed with animals in a confined space, often leading to sanitation issues and superbugs.
What is a feedlot or CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation)?
This is an advantage of a feedlot or CAFO because animals are not free to eat plants. This is reduced.
What is overgrazing?
This is what happens when an unintended organism is trapped in a fishing net or on a fishing line.
This can occur when someone does not get enough of the right types of food or nutrients in their diet.
What is the term for planting crops between rows of trees to help maintain natural shade, water holding & nutrient cycling?
What is alley cropping?
This is the term for having many different species of plant (polycultures) and animals on a farm to help maintain proper nutrient cycling and balance.
What is agrobiodiversity?
This type of farming promotes soil fertility by avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers, etc.
What is organic farming?
These coastal ecosystems of high biodiversity can be disrupted with the establishment of aquacultures.
What are estuaries and mangroves? (either one is okay OR coastal wetlands)
This term describes how poverty, war, climate change, etc. can often impact access to proper nutrition.
What is food security?
If a person eats as an herbivore (vegetarian) instead of an omnivore, by what factor are they increasing their kcals they get from their food?
What is by a factor of 10? (10X more)
This type of farming occurs without the use of soil but instead with water.
What is hydroponics? (or aquaponics)
What is 10%? (10% or more)
If lbs of tuna harvested drop from 10,000 lbs to 2,500 lbs, what is the % change?
What is 75% decrease or -75%?
What is the name of the largest aquifer in the world, used to irrigate the majority of America's "bread basket"?
What is the Ogallala aquifer?