Industrial Systems
This type of system is human-designed to produce goods or services.
What is an industrial system.
Large farms that use machinery, fertilizers, and pesticides to produce high quantities of food represent this type of farming.
What is Agricultural Systems.
This is any organism that damages crops or livestock.
What is a pest
The main goal of food preservation is this.
GMOs
Crop Rotation
Pesticides
Introducing Predators
An example of an Industrial System.
What is
Industrial farming (factory farms, monoculture crops)
Manufacturing plants
Mining and resource extraction
Industrial waste management
Energy production (fossil fuels, power plants)
Growing only one crop over a large area for efficiency and high production is called this.
What is monocropping.
Using genetically resistant crops is an example of which type of pest control method?
What is GMOs.
In this method of food preservation, Low temperatures are used to slow microbial growth.
What is refrigeration.
One disadvantage of using pesticides long term is
Pests may develop resistance
decreases soil quality
water pollution
When outputs from the system re-enter as inputs is known as
What is feedback loop.
The following two statements are both considered under which pillar of sustainability.
Wildlife may be harmed by certain chemicals.
Chemicals can affect soil and water.
What is Environmental.
Adding ladybugs into the farm to eat the aphids is an example of which type of pest control method
What is introducing predators.
Food is sealed in containers to prevent microorganisms in this preservation method.
What is canning.
A farm grows corn in one field one year and soybeans the next year to prevent pests that target corn from building up. What practice is this?
what is Crop Rotation
In an industrial system, what are inputs?
a) Final products
b) Waste materials
c) Resources used to produce something
d) Greenhouse Gasses
What is c, resources used to produce something.
A farm produces 10,000 lbs of tomatoes.
Without pest control, 25% are lost.
With pesticides, only 10% are lost.
How much more food reaches the market when pesticides are used?
What is 15% or 1,500 lbs
A farmer that grows one type of crop in the field one season, and a different type of crop in the next season is practicing this type of pest control method.
What is Crop Rotation.
Food is heated to a specific temperature to kill harmful microorganisms but not necessarily sealed; this method is called this.
Method of preservation that uses heat to kill pathogens.
What is pasteurization
or
what is sterilization.
Decisions _n one part of a system that can affect other parts
What is a trade-off
A method used to prevent food loss between planting and harvesting.
What is pest control.
Over time, pests may survive pesticide exposure and reproduce, making chemicals less effective; this is called this.
What is pesticide resistance.
When you use cultures (bacteria, yeast, mold) to preserve a food
What is fermentation.
The method used to prevent food loss during storage of crops.
What is food preservation.