9.1 and 9.2
This is when food energy intake exceeds energy use and can cause excess body fat and numerous health concerns.
What is overnutrition?
This is an organism that interferes with human welfare by eating society's homes, lawns or gardens?
What is a pest?
This operation utilizes fish wastes as fertilizer for food crops grown in water.
What is aquaponics?
An expensive process used to turn ocean water into freshwater.
What is desalinization?
This irrigation method delivers water directly to plant roots through pipes or tubes.
What is drip irrigation?
The process of increasing food production through increasing industrial agriculture.
What is a green revolution?
This is the genetic variety of animal and plant species used on farms to produce food.
What is agrobiodiversity?
This involves using methods like terracing and contour planting to reduce topsoil erosion and restore soil fertility.
What is soil conservation?
This is what can happen to land above when an aquifer below is depleted.
What is land subsidence or sink hole?
This type of water contains sewage and human and industrial waste.
What is wastewater?
This is currently the dominant food production system in the US.
What is industrialized agriculture?
These types of chemical pest control are toxic to a wide range of species.
What are broad spectrum pesticides?
Animal manure, freshly cut green vegetation and compost are all types of this kind of fertilizer.
What is organic fertilizer?
This structure can provide clean electricity and a freshwater supply to the surrounding communities.
What is a dam?
Accelerated addition of excess nutrients, particularly from anthropogenic sources.
What is cultural eutrophication?
These are the 4 categories of food production.
What are croplands, feedlots/rangelands and fisheries/aquaculture?
Clearing and burning forests, plowing fields, spraying aerosol chemicals and fertilizers and planting monocultures are all ways the agricultural industry contributes to this crisis.
What is climate change?
Terracing, contour planting, strip cropping and alley cropping are all agricultural methods used to prevent this.
What is soil erosion?
The largest aquifer in North America.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
This important source of freshwater can easily get contaminated, but can take thousands of years for it to naturally purify itself.
What is groundwater?
Vitamins A, B, C and E; iron, iodine and calcium are all considered this.
What are micronutrients?
Possibly the most important component of Earth's natural capital and an important resources for agriculture.
What is topsoil?
This type of diet is thought to be the most sustainable way to eat.
What is vegetarian, vegan or plant-based?
Excessive water use, drying environmental conditions, extensive periods of little rainfall are all causes of this major global crisis.
What is freshwater scarcity?
The government can provide these to artificially keep the cost of water low, in turn encouraging overuse of water resources.
What are subsidies?