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Food and Agriculture
Green Revolution
Gene Revolution
Agriculture and the Spheres
Vocabulary
100
Agriculture in Ohio is concentrated in the north west part of the state mainly due to this.
What is the soil?
100
The purpose of the Green Revolution.
What is increase crop production for the growing population?
100
True/False- Most crops are now found in nature.
What is false? (Not found in nature, because they have been genetically modified)
100
This is how agriculture affects the atmosphere.
What is farms use of machinery produces carbon dioxide emissions?
100
No use of hormones, or chemicals (pesticides, herbicides) in the production of food products
What is organic agriculture?
200
Windbreaks, contour cropping, terraces, strip cropping, no-till farming are all example of this.
What is soil conservation?
200
The Green Revolution lead to higher costs to farmers. What happened to indebt farmers?
What is they lost their land?
200
Genes from fish are injected into tomatoes to prevent freezing. This is an example of _____.
What is transgenetic?
200
This is how agriculture affects the biosphere.
What is genetically engineering plants to change natural plants, affects animals through chemical use?
200
The rearing of aquatic animals (fish) or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food
What is aquaculture?
300
GMO means ...
What is genetically modified organism?
300
What three crops did the Green Revolution focus on?
What are corn, wheat, and rice?
300
Scientists are able to change this in plants or animals to make them resistant, larger, resistant to freezing, etc.
What are their genes?
300
This is how agriculture affects geosphere.
What is conserving soil through conservation methods, affects minerals in soil (use of fertilizers, etc)
300
To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.
What is irrigation?
400
Agriculture in Ohio is the number ___ industry.
What is number 1?
400
List three pros of the Green Revolution
What is decrease rate of famine, improve resistance of plants, improve economic growth, meet needs of population, improve farming methods, use land wisely,
400
List 2 pros of the Gene Revolution.
What is pesticide/herbicide resistant crops, higher yield crops, increase drought resistant crops, increase vitamin content, increase shelf life?
400
This is how agriculture affects the hydrosphere.
What is use of fertilizers causes algae blooms?
400
The movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of living matter.
What is a nutrient cycle?
500
The three main layers of soil.
What are humus, topsoil, and subsoil?
500
List 3 cons/negatives of the Green Revolution.
What is algae blooms from fertilizers, mutated animals, decrease in species produced, increase use of water, cancer and birth defects from misuse of pesticides and herbicides, degradation of land, loss of biodiversity, pesticide resistance?
500
List 3 negatives of the Gene Revolution.
What are high costs, Mono-crops have less tolerance to disease, Unknown long term health effects, Contamination of wild crops (“super weeds”), Corporate patents on life forms?
500
List modern trends in modern agriculture (Think about the chicken production from Food Inc.)
What is it is a large scale production, controlled by a few companies, mechanizes and efficient?
500
Pollution discharged over a wide land area, not from one specific location
What is non-point pollution?