Underpinnings of Ag
This is the removal of material from one place and its transport to another by the action of wind or water.
Erosion
This is the term used to describe a shortage of specific nutrients, such as lipids, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.
Malnutrition
These are the three conventional fossil fuels.
Natural gas, oil, coal
True or False: Methane has a greater heat-trapping ability than CO2.
True
This refers to an increase in Earth's average surface temperature.
This is the term for a mixture produced when decomposers break down organic matter such as food and crop waste in a controlled environment.
This is he Grandfather of the Green Revolution.
Norman Borlaug
Of the three main, conventional fossil fuels, this one has the greatest reserves remaining.
Coal
This international treaty aims to combat climate change by limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius, by requiring all countries to set their own emissions reduction targets.
Paris Climate Agreement
Carbon dioxide
Approximately this percentage of all fresh water is used for irrigation. (+/- 2%)
70%
This type of livestock requires the most energy and water, and releases the greatest amount of GHG in order to produce one kg of protein.
In the US, the consumption of oil is predominantly used in this sector.
Transportation
These are the three factors that most influence global climate.
Atmosphere, ocean, sun
This global region is expected to experience the most severe warming by the year 2100.
Polar
This term describes the mysterious disease that has destroyed up to a third of all honeybees each year.
This specific method to control pests combines biocontrol, chemical pesticides, habitat alteration, crop rotation, transgenic crops, alternative tillage methods and mechanical pest removal.
Integrated Pest Management
In the US, the greatest amount of coal consumed is for the generation of this.
Electricity generation
This process, caused by rising CO2 levels, makes it harder for marine organisms to build shells and skeletons.
Acidification
Other than CO2, name three gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect (rewarming of lower troposphere by the emitting of infrared energy).
Water vapor
Ozone
Nitrous oxide
Methane
Halocarbons
These fungi form mutualistic relationships with plants, providing water and nutrients, while the plant provides carbohydrates from photosynthesis.
Mychorrhizae
This new class of chemical insecticides makes plants toxics to insects that feed on them, but also harms bees that pollinate the plant and predator insects that feed on the pests.
Neonicotinoids
The reserve-to-production ratio for coal is approximately this many years (+/- 3 years).
110 years
This global region is expected to experience the most severe warming by the year 2100.
Polar
The scientific community agrees that these are the two most significant contributors to global warming.
Combustion of fossil fuels
Loss of carbon-absorbing vegetation due to deforestation and other changes in land use.