Food and Agriculture
Name two crops that run our vehicles
Corn, soy and sugar
What does FEMA stands for?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Name two reasons why dams are built
Flood control
water storage
Electricity production
thick, tar-like deposits mixed with sediment.
Tar sands
technique for shaping the land to create level shelves of earth to hold water and soil.
Terracing
How much food is needed to produce 1k of beef?
8Kg
In which layer of the atmosphere occurs the weather?
Troposphere
How is that we call to the gradual sinking of the ground surface?
Subsidence
What is the second largest commercial fossil fuel?
Natural Gas
Regenerative farming goal is to reduce and repair the damage. Yes or no
Yes
What does the book refer to pesticide treadmill?
The rapid evolution of pests and weeds, and the resulting need for constantly better pesticides
Does CH4 absorb less infrared energy per molecule than CO2? True or False
False
What is the most valuable and least appreciated resource that the national forests provide?
Water
what type of standards are strict energy use limits, along with guidelines for building practices that reduce
energy consumption? Passive or Active
Passive
Process to splice a gene from one organism into the
chromosome of another.
Genetic engineering
While the average population growth in the past 50 years has been 1.7 percent per year, food production has increased by an average of
2.2%
What does the Keeling curve document?
Changing CO2 concentrations
Why is it said that non-point sources of water pollution are diffuse?
No specific location to discharge
What is the type of energy that produces electricity and steam at the same time?
Cogeneration
What is the most abundantly used synthetic
pesticides?
Organophosphates
What percentage of people in developing countries now face chronic food shortages?
20
Melting ice has a strong positive or negative feedback loop?
Positive feedback loop
What is the oxygen sag?
oxygen decline downstream
what are the main biomass sources to produce methane?
Sewage and Manure
How we call the era in which development of high responders—crops that grow and yield well with increased use of fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides?
Green Revolution