Green Revolution
Who was the founder of the Green Revolution?
Norman Borlaug
What is the term for the practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land?
Monocropping
In 1994, what was the first GMO produce, created through genetic engineering, becomes available for sale after studies evaluated by federal agencies proved it to be as safe as its traditional counterpart?
A GMO Tomato
What is the term for the use of environment friendly methods that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to human or natural systems?
Sustainable Farming or Sustainable Agriculture
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
What is CAFO
A combination of methods used to effectively control pest species while minimizing environmental disruption and negative human health effects.
What is integrated pest management (IPM)?
What is the term for the increase in crop yields based on cultivation of high—response varieties of wheat, rice, maize and millet, and intensive use of fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation and machinery?
Green Revolution
What is the term for the large-scale production of animals like cows, pigs and chickens, and crops such as palm oil, soybeans and corn?
Industrial Agriculture or Industrial Farming
What is the term for a strain of bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotic drugs?
Superbug
In the 2009 documentary, Fresh, sustainable farmer Joel Salatin refers to the chickens as fellow what?
Fellow Workers
Meat production method that emits the most greenhouse gases and uses too much land.
What is free-range grazing?
Introducing a natural predator, parasite, or competitor to control the pest population.
What is biocontrol?
What country introduced the Green Revolution through renovating agricultural practices in the 1940s?
Mexico
What is the term for the agricultural meat, dairy, or egg facilities where animals are kept and raised in confined situations?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
What is the term for plants, animals or other organisms created through controlled breeding?
Hybrids
What is the term for the practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot of land to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil, and combat pest and weed pressure?
Crop Rotation
This gas is what cattle produce during the digestion process.
What is methane?
Planting a different crop each season.
What is crop rotation?
What plant variety did Norman Borlaug come up with to increase food yields and make developing countries more self-sufficient in food production?
Semi-Dwarf Wheat
What is the term for the containment system to collect animal excrement in order to limit the amount of seepage into the groundwater supply?
Waste Lagoons
What is the term for a plant, animal, or microorganism that has had its genetic material (DNA) changed using technology that generally involves the specific modification of DNA, including the transfer of specific DNA from one organism to another?
GMO's or Genetically Modified Organisms
What is the term for a system that uses ecologically based pest controls and biological fertilizers derived largely from animal and plant wastes and nitrogen-fixing cover crops?
Organic Farming
Farming fish produces a greater density of fish but can increase the use of antibiotics.
What is aquiculture?
A push/pull system of planting different crops.
What is intercropping?
What technological advancement in seed development lead to the increase in maize, wheat and rice crops?
High Yielding Varieties (HYV) of seeds
What is the overall percentage of the earth's fresh water supply used by agriculture?
70%
What is one of three possible characteristics of GMO crops?
The three most common traits found in GMO crops are:
What is the term for processing food waste into valuable nutrients that can improve soil and feed plants?
Compost or Composting
The catching of unintended species, including dolphins, whales, and turtles.
What is bycatch?
This caused the bee population to decline.
What is glyphosate?