Agriculture
What is sustainable agriculture?
Sediment consisting of particles less than 0.002 mm in diameter.
What is an clay?
The practice of plowing furrows sideways across a hillside, perpendicular to its slope, to help prevent the formation of rills and gullies. It's named because it follows the natural contour of the land.
What is contour farming?
A deterioration of soil quality and decline in soil productivity, resulting primarily from forest removal, cropland agriculture, and overgrazing.
What is soil degradation?
are organizations that preserve seeds of diverse plants as a kind of insurance policy against a global crop collapse
What is a seed bank?
Food producing practices that uses not synthetic fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, or herbicides, but instead rely of biological approaches such as composting and biological pest control
What is organic agriculture?
The continuous mass of solid rock that makes up the Earth's crust
What is bedrock?
Planting different types of crops in alternating bands or other spatially mixed arrangements. .
What is Intercropping?
The physical, chemical, and biological process that break down rocks and minerals, making large particles smaller.
What is weathering?
the use of genetically engineering to introduce new genes into organisms to produce more valuable products.
What is a biotechnology?
Fish farming
What is aquaculture
A distinct layer of soil.
What is a soil horizon?
The uniform planting of a single crop over large areas.
What is monoculture?
Chemicals used to kill pests, often insects. Sprayed on crops, may build up in food chains if not biodegradable
What is a pesticide?
the guarantee of an adequate and reliable food supply for all people at all times
What is food security?
Biologically powered agriculture, in which humans and animal muscle power, along with hand tools and simple machines, perform the work of cultivating, harvesting, storing, and distributing crops.
What is traditional agriculture?
The base geological material in a particular location. .
What is parent material.
Agriculture that does not involve tilling. The most intense for of conservation tillage.
What is no till?
Organisms that have undergone genetic engineering
What is a GMO
A form of agriculture that uses large scale mechanization and fossil fuel combustion, enabling farmers to replace horses and oxen with faster and more powerful means to cultivate, harvest, transport, etc.
What is industrial agriculture?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Draw a Soil Profile with the correct labels for each layer, in order.
A row of trees or other tall perennial plants that are placed along the edges of farm fields to break the wind, and therefore minimize wind erosion.
What is shelterbelts?
a shortage of nutrients the body needs ?
What is malnutrition?
is the biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or 'syngamy' of the female gametes in the ovule of the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grain.
What is a pollinator?