Human Nutrition Requirements
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins
What are micronutrients?
What is monoculture?
Dragging a large net over a body of water
What is trawling?
Plants that yield much more then other varieties
What are high responders?
Used to kill and repel unwanted plant and animal life
What is a pesticide used for?
wheat, corn, rice
What is are the big 3?
The only practical use of some kind of land
What is ranching?
Growing aquatic species in net pins or tanks
What is Aquaculture?
Plants with desired traits are put together to create highly effective varieties
What is cross breeding?
Takes a long time to feel the affects of the poison
What is chronic?
___ is poverty and inequality, not scarcity
what is HUNGER?
Multiple crops growing in the same place
What is polyculture?
Stops the spread of disease in animals and plants
What do antibiotics do?
Increased production through breeding, fertilizer, and irrigation
What was the Green revolution?
When natural selection occurs, and pests eventually become immune to pesticides
What is pesticide resistance?
amount of energy needed to raise 1kg of water by 1 decree C
What is a calorie?
Polyculture
What kind of cropping increases crop yields?
A net that closes from the bottom once it becomes full of fish
What is purse seining?
What is genetically modified?
Sets limits to the max amount of each pesticide used on each food item
What does the EPA do?
Not eating enough variety
What is Scurvy?
resources, climate, government policies, economic, social, and political pressures
What causes cropping systems to vary?
What resources are humans consuming too much of?
Used in over half the worlds land
How often are GM crops used?
Set action thresholds, prevention, monitor and identify pests, control
What is integrated pest management?