Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
This Technique grows plants without soil, using nutrient-rich water.
What is Hydroponics
The study of fruits and nuts, from the Latin pomum.
What is Pomology
Vegetables are typically this part of the plant, not flowers or woody tissue
What are roots, stems, leaves, and leafstock
This fibrous plant is used for textiles, paper, and ropes
What is Flax
Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on this type of oil
What is peanut
Farming practice that stacks plants vertically to maximize space efficiency
What is Vertical Farming
Idaho fruit crops include apples, peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, and this vine fruit.
What is wine grapes
In 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this fruit was legally a vegetable
What is tomato
Turpentine and rosin are examples of these oxidation products from pine trees
What are various oils from trees
Switchgrass has a net energy gain of this percentage compared to corn’s 21%
These systems monitor and adjust temperature, humidity, and light in real time.
Peaches require 500–800 of these cold hours to flower
What are cooling hours
Idaho produces 70% of U.S. hybrid seed for this sweet summer crop.
What is sweet corn seed
Latex from Hevea brasiliensis is the source of 95–98% of this global commodity
What is Rubber
Wheat straw in the PNW could yield this many million gallons of ethanol annually
Traditional greenhouses extend the growing season but often require these two costly inputs.
What is Heating and Supplemental lighting
Apples are classified as this fruit type, with a papery core surrounding fused carpels
What is Pome
Transplants are commonly used for crops like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and this purple fruit
Cork is harvested from the outer bark of certain species of these
What are trees
True or False:
Biofuels can be adopted easily because they require no modifications to this part of vehicles
What is True
CEA integrates both of these disciplines to optimize plant growth.
The alternation of heavy and light crops across years is known as this phenomenon
Crop Rotation
About one-third of global food produced is lost or wasted, equal to this many billion tons
What is 1.3 Billion tons
Charles Goodyear discovered this process in 1839, heating rubber with sulfur
What is vulcanization
Biofuels can be adopted easily because they require no modifications to this part of vehicles