Category 1
What do you call the broad industry engaged in producing plants and animals for food and fiber, the provision of agricultural supplies and services, and the processing, marketing, and distribution of agricultural products.
What is Agriculture.
What do you call plants or animals produced by the cross-breeding of two genetically different varieties or species.
Noting or relating to an old plant variety that is being cultivated again.
What is a Heirloom.
A member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
Who is a Hunter-Gatherer.
Plants or animals produced by the cross-breeding of two genetically different varieties or species.
What is a Hybrid.
Who is a person engaged in producing food and/or fiber; ancillaries such as agricultural teachers, farm editors, researchers, etc.
Who is an Agriculturist.
The ability to achieve desired results without wasting materials, time, or energy.
What is Efficiency.
The total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
What is a Population.
To set down in writing to preserve evidence.
What is a Record.
Continuing and spreading results of an event or action.
What is a Ripple Effect.
What do you call any particular extent of space or surface.
What is Area.
The natural world.
HINT: (associated with soil health, habitats, water, and greenhouse gas emissions)
What is the Environment.
Different types of the same species of seeds that can be planted to grow crops more successfully in different climates.
What are Seed Varieties
Using stacked or inclined surfaces to grow crops in a limited area.
What is Vertical Agriculture
The edible part of an herbaceous plant. Any plant part eaten either cooked or raw during the principal part of a meal rather than as a dessert.
What is a vegetable.
What do you call to use or use up.
What is to consume.
To develop into a plant from a seed, spore, or bulb.
What is Germinate.
In the naming of plants and animals, Latin is used. Each kind of plant or animal can be identified by this.
What is a Species.
A wild and uncultivated region, as of forest or desert, uninhabited or inhabited only by wild animals; a tract of wasteland
What is the Wilderness.
Using best farming practices to grow the most food and fiber on the land for long term economic, social and environmental success
What is Sustainable Practices.
What are plants grown by farmers, such as wheat, barley, peas, corn, and canola
What is crops.
The practice of growing a variety of crops or animals, or both on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single plant or animal variety.
What is Diversified Agriculture
Relating to the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought.
HINT: (associated with profits, jobs, incomes, and community).
What is Economic.
The least developed social, economic, or environmental factor; a community is only as successful as the least developed factor, so we must continually try to improve the weakest one.
What is a Limiting Factor.
Meeting the economic, social, and environmental needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future.
What is Sustainability.