Pesticides
Destroying weeds and other unwanted vegetation
What is Herbicide?
Most harmful pesticide during the green revolution
What is DDT?
pig and poultry rely on this more bacteria thrives on feed lots and makes livestock put on weight faster
What is Antibiotics?
Trying not to remove different plant species and adding biodiversity
What beneficial weeds?
Amount of energy needed to raise 1kg of water by 1 degree Celsius
What is calorie?
pests develop a tolerance to a chemical through natural selection
What is pesticide resistance?
Plants with desired traits created new highly productive hybrid breeds known as miracles
What is cross breeding?
Involves marine species, like tuna and salmon and grows aquatic species
What is aquaculture?
Somehow benefitting each other that’s why they are planted together
What is companion cropping?
When people do not consume enough calories or not enough variety of food
What is malnutrition?
For controlling a wide variety of insects
What is insecticide?
Organisms who genetic code has been altered by a beneficial means such as inter species gene transfer
What is GMO?
Allow better control of pollutants, plant eating species, and lower environmental impacts
Taking a limited amount of space and using it
What is alley cropping?
Amount of energy available from food is expressed in calories
What is needed to live?
Control methods are effective and cost efficient
What is prevention?
Involves removing genetic material from other organisms and into chromosomes. Technology introduces a new trait
What is Genetic Engineering?
Central fishing line up to 50 miles, multiple baited hooks, catches swordfish
What is long lining?
Alternation of crops and are intermixed
What is intercropping?
Energy giving nutrients that include sugar starches and fiber
What is a carbohydrate?
A point in which pest populations or environmental conditions indicate that pest control actions must be taken
What is set action threshold?
Crops are unaffected when fields are sprayed to kill and crops with these genes can grow in spite of high herbicide doses, farmers can spray fields heavily to exterminate weeds.
What is transgenic crops?
Uses huge net to surround fish school and doesn’t allow fish to escape from top
What is purse seining?
Avoids the susceptibility of monoculture to disease
What is diversity of crops?
Fats, lipids, carbohydrates, protein, and fiber
What is macronutrients?