Health/Diseases
one that was not known before or that has been absent for at least the past 20 years but is now seeing an increase
What is an emergent disease?
a person who eats domestically grown food to support the farm economy
What is a locavore?
land that is fit for the growing of crops. This land contains all the nutrients and can support crop growth.
What is Arable?
The way water soluble toxins spread
What is transported through water because it is everywhere so they can be moved more easily and also have access to almost all cells of the body because cells contain aqueous solutions.
Where Ms. Sneed attended graduate school
What is pepperdine?
new disease that spreads among wildlife
What is an ecological disease?
occurs due to natural selection, rapid evolution, and human carelessness. Some organisms are able to naturally thrive under human-created selective pressures and pass on their resistant genes to the next generation
What is pesticide resistance?
water and nutrients are provided to the plant by this fungus that grows around its roots. In exchange, the plant gives organic nutrients so that the fungus can survive.
What is mycorrhizal symbiosis?
The lethal dose of a substance which kills at least half of a test population
What is LD50
The year Ms. Sneed started teaching at CHS
when was 2022?
bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses
What are 4 different types of pathogens?
difference between undernourished and malnourished
What is Malnourished is when a person has a nutritional imbalance because they did not receive specific dietary components or because their body cannot absorb or utilize essential nutrients. Being undernourished is when somebody is getting less than 2,200 kcal per day.
three ways that we can use to conserve soil while farming.
a substance that can survive for years and cause harm
What are persistent pollutants?
Ms. Sneeds boyfriend and their dog's names
Who are Jaree and Stella?
one substance worsens the effect of another.
What is a synergistic effect?
Why is being a vegetarian better for the environment?
What is processing meat is not environmentally friendly and because a lot of food, such as cereal, that could be consumed directly instead goes towards raising meat. Eating too much meat can lead to many chronic illnesses and effects such as high cholesterol and risk of stroke since meat does not contain fiber?
The soil horizons
What are O horizon, A horizon, B horizon, C horizon?
Threshold Level
What is minimal amounts of a toxin below this point do not cause any harm and more of the substance is needed to have an effect?
The city where Ms. Sneed lives
Where is Camarillo?
They are endocrine disruptors found in most of the products that have had some form of contact with plastics such as food, water bottles, synthetic clothing, or personal care products.
What are Pthalates and where are they found?
advantages and disadvantages of aquaculture
What is can boost fish yield and the land-based practices can lead to agricultural wastes fertilizing ponds and encouraging phytoplankton growth. The disadvantages decrease in wild-fish populations and the organisms that feed on them/ introduce antibiotics, pollution, and diseases into the ecosystem with a lot of fish crowded in one area?
The six components of soil
What are sand/gravel, silt/clay, decaying organic matter, soil flora and fauna, air, water?
Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification is occuring
What is when organisms take up and store substances within their cells and when these effects or substances are passed through the food chain?
Ms. Sneed's proposed name for her dog and its meaning
Who is Data from Star Trek?