Lesson 1
This type of farming produces just enough food for the farmer and their family to live on.
What is subsistence farming?
This type of farming involves growing cash crops and raising livestock on the same farm.
What is mixed farming?
This pricing model allows farmers to sell their goods for the best price available without government control or quotas.
What is open market pricing?
This term describes when people have consistent access to enough nutritious food to stay healthy and active.
What is food security?
This method grows plants in nutrient-rich water without using soil.
What is hydroponics?
This prairie soil type is rich in humus, has a thick A horizon, and is common in Southern Manitoba.
What is Black Prairie Chernozem?
This type of farming uses high levels of capital, fertilizers, labor, and technologies like robotics and pesticides.
What is intensive farming?
This technology uses satellites to help tractors steer automatically and efficiently in the field.
What is GPS auto-steer technology?
One of the four key pillars of food security, this refers to a person’s ability to purchase or produce the food they need.
What is access?
This irrigation method uses small holes in pipes to deliver water directly to the soil.
What is a drip system?
This is the minimum number of frost-free days needed to grow wheat and barley.
What is 90 frost-free days?
What is an advantage of Intensive Farming?
What is
Increased yield, leads to cheap products, less space for animals, less energy required, necessary for adequate food production and cost efficiency
This farming method avoids tilling the soil entirely, helping conserve moisture and prevent erosion.
What is zero tillage?
This term refers to when people cannot access enough food to stay healthy and active.
What is food insecurity?
This type of agriculture uses empty urban spaces like rooftops and balconies to grow food.
What is urban farming?
These soils are most commonly found in Alberta near the Rocky Mountains and are known for their high salinity and free drainage.
What are semiarid soils?
One disadvantage of intensive farming is that it can lead to this problem in rivers and lakes due to fertilizer runoff.
What is altered biology of aquatic ecosystems?
One key benefit of GMOs is that crops can be engineered to resist these two major threats.
What are insects and disease?
This global trend is causing more people to eat high-calorie, processed foods as they move into cities.
What is urbanization?
This farming method mimics natural ecosystems to protect soil and wildlife while growing food.
What is permaculture?
This farming method involves clearing forest by cutting and burning, and using the land until nutrients are depleted.
What is shifting cultivation?
What is a disadvantage of mixed farming?
What is farmers must divide their attention between multiple endeavours.
This type of farming avoids synthetic chemicals and instead uses crop rotation, green manure, and reduced tillage.
What is organic farming?
Name two reasons why global food consumption is increasing.
What are economic development and changes in dietary patterns?
Though it provides a large portion of the world’s food, this method of farming uses 70% of freshwater and depends on chemicals.
What is industrial agriculture?